Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye (Mother Goose Suite) (Complete) - wind quintet
Ravel originally wrote Ma Mère l'Oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, Sonatine, to their parents). Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève Durony.
It bears the subtitle "cinq pièces enfantines" (five children's pieces).
Ravel later orchestrated the piece.
This arrangement contains all of the 5 movements.
Mvts are:
I.Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant: Lent (Pavane of Sleeping Beauty)
II.Petit Poucet: Très modéré (Little Tom Thumb / Hop-o'-My-Thumb)
III.Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes: Mouvt de marche (Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas)
IV.Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête: Mouvt de valse très modéré (Conversation of Beauty and the Beast)
V.Le jardin féerique: Lent et grave (The Fairy Garden)
It is arranged for standard wind quintet