Alborada del gracioso, Maurice Ravel. Piano

Alborada del gracioso, Maurice Ravel. Piano

·   listed among Ravels most well-known piano pieces

·   single edition out of HN 842

·   only critical single edition and much less costly than the Max Eschig edition

·   oversize format

·   includes glossary of expression and tempo marks

·   for students and professionals

In his Autobiographical Sketch Ravel looks back and stresses the importance of his Miroirs (HN 842), published in 1906, for his harmonic evolution. He said that they had disconcerted even those musicians who had been most familiar with my compositional style up to then. This is particularly true of the fourth piece in the collection, Alborada del gracioso (Morning song of the court jester), with its frequent employment of harsh dissonances. This both technically and musically charming genre scene, full of rousing ideas and rhythms, is one of the French composers best-known piano pieces today. We are now issuing it in a single Urtext edition.