Le langage des fleurs

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Ann Martin-Davis
Maurice Ravel

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Performer Biography

Ann Martin-Davis studied with renowned pianist Phyllis Sellick, who had played Ravel's Sonatine for the composer himself at age eleven.

Performer Biography

Pianist Ann Martin-Davis's disc of works by Witold Lutosławski, a Polish composer, was described as 'beautiful and exquisite' by BBC Music Magazine.

Composition History

Ravel not only composed the music for the ballet Adélaïde, or the language of flowers, but also orchestrated it from its original piano version and conducted its premiere.

Composition History

Maurice Ravel's ballet, Adélaïde, or the language of flowers, was based on his Valses nobles et sentimentales, which he originally composed for solo piano.

Compositional Technique

The Valses nobles et sentimentales achieve cohesion through various musical techniques like melodic common tones, shared rhythms, motifs, and transitional passages.

Composer Biography

Ravel, who served as a truck driver in World War I, completed Le tombeau de Couperin during the war and dedicated each movement to a fallen fellow soldier.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales embodies his declared principles of 'craft', 'conscience', 'choice', and 'taste', and his ambition for 'technical perfection'.