and Other Works for Solo Piano
Paperback - 112 pages (September 1997), usually ships within24 hours.
Amazon Review
Reviewer: A reader from Amherst, MA USA
Together with Le tombeau as promised by the title, this volume includes the original
piano versions of Ma Mère l'Oye, all eight Valses nobles et sentimentales, the 1913
Prélude, the two pieces À la manière de (Chabrier and Borodin), and the composer's
own piano transcription of La Valse. This fine, durable Dover edition nicely complements
Dover's "Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel" with no overlap to give a nearly
complete collection of all of Ravel's compositions for the piano. The only piano work
absent from both volumes is the Habanera, probably because that work is almost
invariably performed by two pianists, although I own a transcription for a single player.
Many of the works in this volume are quite accessible to pianists of intermediate skill, if
they are sufficiently motivated by a love of the music of Ravel, and even in Le
tombeau, a work of legendary difficulty, the exquisite Menuet, should prove playable by
all but beginners. Highly recommended.