SINGING RAVEL
Concert
Ravel's choral music is rare. It does, however, have treasures among which Les trois chansons for a cappella choir. His music seems to find an ideal extension with voice and choir. This program proposes to play large pages transcribed for the choir: from Ma Mère L'Oye to Scheherazade via La Vallée des Cloches. Great composers and arrangers have already given their letters of nobility to this Ravelian art of transcription: Gérard Pesson, Thierry Machuel or Clytus Gottwald. For this program, Les Métaboles challenged Thibault Perrine to transcribe for the first time two emblematic works by Ravel: Bolero and La Pavane pour une infante defunte. There is no doubt that these new versions for choir will make it possible to discover these works in a new and unprecedented light!
Co production : la Cité de la Voix, la Cité musicale-Metz
Scores by Maurice Ravel - Éditions Durand
Some scores have been kindly loaned by CEN (resource center dedicated to choral art)
SINGING RAVEL
Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte (transcription Thibault Perrine)
Ma Mère l'Oye (transcription Thierry Machuel)
- Le Jardin féérique
- Pavane de la belle au bois dormant
Ronsard à son âme (transcription Gérard Pesson)
Soupir (extract of Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, transcription Clytus Gottwald)
Toi le cœur de la rose (extract of L’enfant et les sortilèges, transcription Clytus Gottwald)
Trois chansons pour chœur a cappella
- Nicolette
- Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis
- Ronde
La vallée des cloches (transcription Clytus Gottwald)
Shéhérazade (transcription Gérard Pesson)
- La Flûte enchantée
- L’indifférent
Boléro (transcription Thibault Perrine)
Les Métaboles (24 singers)
Léo Warynski, direction
In the press...
August
Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.
July
Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Trois chansons. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.
August
Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of the Water Games or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Three songs. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.
May
Everything sings with Ravel: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano of the Water Games or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L'Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to twirling but very short Three songs. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma Mère l'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and the Pavane pour une infante defunte by Thibault Perrine.
January
Everything sings at Ravel's: the strings of Daphnis and Chloé, the piano from Jeux d'eau or the whirlwind of fantastic characters from L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. However, his work for a cappella choir is reduced to the twirling but very short Three Songs. Never mind ! Didn't Ravel himself transcribe, here for piano, there for orchestra, a good part of his catalog? Here is Ma mère d'Oye, Miroirs, Scheherazade offered to the virtuosity and playfulness of the singers of the Métaboles - and in creation, the transcriptions of the Bolero and Pavane pour une infante défunte
August
De grandes pages de la musique vocale de Maurice Ravel ainsi que des transcriptions dont celles, spécifiquement faites par Thibault Perrine pour les Métaboles, Le Boléro et La Pavane pour une Infante défunte.