Pavane pour une enfante défunte - Ravel - The Embergher Quintet

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) composed the 'Pavane pour une enfante défunte' in 1899, when he was 24 years old, as a solo work for piano. It was commissioned by and written for Princess Edmond de Polignac, whome he had met at the soirees held in the homes of the Parisian music sponsors. It became very popular in the orchestrated version created by Ravel in 1910. Maurice Ravel described it as "an evocation of a Pavane that a little princess might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court". The tempo of this Pavane should not, as Ravel himself pointed out on several occasions, be to slow.
Today the 'Pavane pour une enfante défunte' excist in numerous arrangements for various instrumentations and here it is transcribed by Alex Timmerman for 2 mandolins, mandola, mandoloncello and guitar.
The members of the Dutch Mandolin Quintet are Sebastiaan de Grebber and Pauline Ulderink as the 1st and 2nd mandolinsts, Ruth Rouw on mandola, on mandoloncello Ferdinand Binnendijk and Alex Timmerman as guitarist.
A video made by Het CONSORT in March 2013.

[@joelfernandozunigafigueroa3400]

maravilloso este arreglo de mandolina y guitarras

[@kevinlohguitar]

very nice

[@markmdavis]

Wonderful performance - superb interpretation!

[@fineartukulele]

I always liked this pavan!

[@deniztekin2287]

Beautiful

[@scree123]

Beautiful!

[@48Xtian]

C'est superbe !
on croirait que FAURE à écrit ctte pavane pour la mandoline.

[@OrchestradiMandolini]

Merci!

[@ingerbello3693]

Que hermoso

[@ikekomandolin]

Elegant!

[@JelmavanAmersfoort]

Mooi, mooi.

[@OrchestradiMandolini]

Dank Jelma!