La Valse, Poeme choregraphique, Maurice Ravel arr Jean-Francois Monnard. Study Score

La Valse, Poème chorégraphique, Maurice Ravel arr Jean-François Monnard

Jean-François Monnards Urtext edition is the first edition of La Valse that compares all relevant sources. The first edition of the score, published in 1921, was used as the source. Errors and inconsistencies arising from the comparison with the previous edition were corrected on the basis of the autograph score. Moreover, the handwritten and printed piano versions also provide valuable insights into the works origin.
To this day, the soft opening measures of La Valse still represent a challenge to the interpretation. This problem preoccupied the sound aesthete Ravel up to the end of his life. This is the reason for which Manuel Rosenthal, a conductor and friend of Ravels, decided to retouch the opening measures. This is presented for the first time in the Critical Commentary to the new edition. Rosenthals suggestion allows a more differentiated sound of the double basses at the beginning.

SPECIFICATIONS
Composer Maurice Ravel
Instrumentation Orchestra
Product Type Studyscore
Instrument Group Orchestra
GenreView Description Classical
Publisher Breitkopf und Härtel
ISMN 9790004212127
No. Pages 124
Series Breitkopf Urtext Edition
Editor Jean-François
No. BRKPB5523-07
Definitive Duration 00:12:00

Binding: Paperback/Soft Cover
ISMN: 979-0-004-21212-7
Performance duration: 12' 0"
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel
instrumentation: 3(Picc).3(Eh).3(BKlar).3(Kfg) 4.3.3.1 Pk.Schl(5) 2Hfe Str
page number: 124