Ravel: The Flute Album

Description

Maurice Ravel's enchanted flute!What to do when you are a flutist and you love Ravel? If the composer offered some of his most beautiful orchestral pages to the flute, he composed very little for the instrument alone... Alas! Julien Beaudiment and Célia Oneto Bensaid answer this question by borrowing ten of the composer's greatest works from the repertoire. Daphnis et Chloé, the perilous Alborada del gracioso, or even La flûte enchantée and the Sonatine are thus adorned with the combined timbres of flute and piano, so much so that one is surprised to think that these transcriptions could just as well have been the original versions... A beautiful confirmation that, with Ravel, the flute is indeed "the happy instrument of light and dream."