Concert

LacMus Festival: Absolute Ravel

9 July 2025

It is the 150th anniversary of Ravel's birth and LacMus has decided to offer a wide selection of his music. We begin with his piano works. The first part shows us the Ravel who looks to the past: the famous Pavane pour une infante défunte and the following three retro- flavoured pieces prepare us for the monumental Tombeau de Couperin , the supreme synthesis of the composer's harmonic modernity and his love for the harpsichord masters of eighteenth-century France. In parallel, the second part shows us the visionary Ravel, who looks to a future of dissolution of form in pure colour: first the youthful, evocative Jeux d'eau , and then the disturbing and dreamlike images of Gaspard de la nuit .

Artist: Louis Lortie

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PROGRAM Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane for a deceased child
Antique menu
À la manner de – Borodine
À la manner de – Chabrier
The Tomb of Couperin :
I – Prelude
II – Fugue
III – Forlane
IV – Rigaudon
V – Menuet
VI – Touched

(45 min.)

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Water games
Gaspard of the night :
I – Ondine
II – The gibet
III – Scarbo

(30 min.)

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