Edition number: BA08605
ISMN: 9790006536894
Composer / Author: Ravel, Maurice
Title: Mother Goose Suite for Woodwind Quintet
Scoring: Woodwinds
Instrumentation in detail: Flute (Piccolo flute), Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon
Foreword / Introduction: Linckelmann, Joachim
Arranger: Linckelmann, Joachim
Product format: Score, Set of parts
Scoring: Flute (Piccolo flute), Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon
Publisher: Bärenreiter
Binding: Stapled
Print run: 2nd printing 2018
Pages / Format: 17/10/8/8/7/8 S. - 30,0 x 23,0 cm
Weight: 257 g
Manufacturer Identification (GPSR):
Bärenreiter-Verlag, Karl Vötterle GmbH & Co. KG
Heinrich-Schütz-Allee 35-37, 34131 Kassel, DE
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Ravel’s eternally charming Mother Goose Suite was originally composed for piano 4 hands between 1908 and 1910. At a later date it was orchestrated and included additional movements.
Joachim Linckelmann’s arrangement for woodwind quintet evokes Ravel’s sound world realizing it with that special blend of wind instruments. The suite contains: “ Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty”; “Tom Thumb”; “ Laideronnette ”, “empress of the pagodas”; “Conversations of Beauty and the Beast” and lastly “The enchanted Garden”.
This first ever arrangement of Ravel’s masterpiece will quickly find a place in concert halls!