Piano Concerto

Ravel, Maurice

Volume II · 2019 revised edition

§ Maurice Ravel — 1929-1931, M. 83

Concerto for piano.

Concerto for piano and orchestra — known as "in G major" · 1929-1931

New revised edition under the editorial direction of François Dru, published as a 272-page bound volume: scores, musicological texts, iconography and critical apparatus, bilingual French-English.

Editorial direction

François Dru

Commission

Orchestre national d'Auvergne — Orchestre des Champs-Élysées — Orchestre philharmonique de Monte-Carlo — Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

Sources

Orchestral manuscript — Marguerite Long's scores — sketches and proofs of the two-piano reduction — scores belonging to Ravel's contemporaries

Reading committee

Editorial direction

Revised edition under the editorial direction of François Dru.

Reading committee

Pianist

Cedric Tiberghien

Composer

Benjamin Attahir

Conductor

Louis Langree

Conductor

Ludovic Morlot

Conductor

Adrien Perruchon

Conductor

Pascal Rophe

Volume II

A 272-page bilingual French-English bound volume

Specifications

Format: 24.5 × 34 cm
Pagination: 272 pages
(including 154 pages of scores)
Binding: Sewn binding, square spine
Paper: 120 gsm ivory collector's stock
Languages: French — English

Texts

"Ravel the fakir's final challenge" General introduction on the history of the work and its reception — François Porcile (2019)
"Up close to a work" An original four-hand text — Claire-Marie Le Guay & Louis Langrée (2019)
The 1932 debate Henry Prunières's review following the premiere, Maurice Ravel's response and Marguerite Long's Postlude
Reception at the premiere A corpus of reviews published in the French press in 1932

Scores

Revised orchestral score Established from the complete orchestral manuscript, Marguerite Long's various scores, the sketches and proofs of the two-piano reduction, and scores belonging to Ravel's contemporaries.
Reduction for two pianos With performance annotations by Maurice Ravel and Marguerite Long. New 2019 reduction of the second piano part by composer Jean-Pascal Beintus.

Critical apparatus

Critical apparatus — 40 pages Presentation of the full body of documentary sources used to establish this 2019 edition.
Corrections and notes — 23 pages Survey of the editorial issues, omissions and errors in the earliest editions of the work.

Iconography

Previously unpublished photographs From the Marguerite Long collection, most of them previously unpublished.
Facsimiles Pages from the orchestral manuscript and the two-piano proof, as well as scores from the first print run (December 1931 and January 1932) that belonged to Piero Coppola, Charles Münch, Robert Casadesus, Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer…

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