{"product_id":"766581","title":"Joint Venture Percussion Duo - Ravel:Dances Fairy Tales [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Xi Zhang and Laurent Warnier, the two musicians forming Joint Venture Percussion Duo, met while they were still students at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Sharing a love for the music by Maurice Ravel and regretting that the composer never wrote for percussion instruments, they decided to make an arrangement of the Pr\\xe9lude from his last work for solo piano, Le Tombeau de Couperin. It proved an exhilarating experience as well as a fruitful exercise, bringing the duo closer together as the players aimed at creating a single, inseparable sound in certain passages, and in others producing a rainbow of timbres, inspired by Ravel's own shimmering orchestral scores. Arrangements of the entire work followed, with the prelude and a toccata framing a series of stylized dances: the Forlane with its dotted rhythms and piquant dissonances, the robust, bucolic Rigaudon and the Minuet, as well as a three-part fugue. The duo went on to arrange Ravel's fairy tales in Ma m\\xe8re l'Oye, originally written for piano four hands but later expanded into a ballet score orchestrated by the composer himself. Joint Venture Percussion Duo closes their first CD with their arrangement of what has become one of Ravel's best-known compositions, the nobly melancholic Pavane pour une infante d\\xe9funte.\u003cp\u003eI. Pr\\xc3\\xa9lude: Vif\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Fugue: Allegro Moderato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Forlane: Allegretto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Rigaudon: Assez Vif\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Menuet: Allegro Moderato\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVI. Toccata: Vif\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Pavane De La Belle Au Bois Dormant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eII. Petit Poucet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIII. Laideronnette, Imperatrice Des Pagodes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Les Entretiens De La Belle Et De La Bete\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV. Le Jardin Feerique\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePavane Pour Une Infante D\\xc3\\xa9funte\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55144829976961,"sku":"766581","price":17.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41xjRG3iVUL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767761561","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/766581","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}