Sheet music to Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe for solo piano (1910)

[theholygideons]

Does anyone know where I can find Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe for solo piano (1910)
that includes his lever du jour piece? IMSLP only has a select few pieces from the suite. I hope he wrote the solo version down...I heard a solo version of lever du jour on Youtube and it said ravel composed it.

[awesom_o]

There is WAY too much music in that piece to play by only one pianist! I highly recommend the two-piano version transcribed by Gryaznov!

https://imslp.org/wiki/Daphnis_et_Chlo%C3%A9_Suite_No.2_(Ravel,_Maurice)

I do not believe a solo arrangement exists. If you cannot find a (highly qualified) partner, you should arrange it yourself! Best of luck....

The two-piano version is one of the hardest things I've ever looked at!

[theholygideons]

so you're telling me this is not ravel's composition? must be a mystery..

oh yes, hard is good, but it must sound effortless like the music is.

[awesom_o]

Ravel arranged fragments for solo piano, but not the 2nd Orchestral Suite.

https://burrito.whatbox.ca:15263/imglnks/usimg/0/0e/IMSLP05989-Daphnis_et_Chloe_Fragments__Piano_Solo_.pdf

[thorn]

Here is Ravel's complete piano draft. I say 'draft' because it's very much a working copy- Claire-Marie Le Guay recorded all of the different parts and then laid them over each other (or something like that, I'm less than an amateur with recording technology). You can't play the Lever du jour in this version with just two hands.

https://en.scorser.com/Out/4770099.html

I've actually arranged and performed the second suite piano solo myself, but didn't think there'd be enough interest to justify the effort of revising and attempting to publish it (and have no idea how one goes about these things).

[awesom_o]

Here is Ravel's complete piano draft. I say 'draft' because it's very much a working copy- Claire-Marie Le Guay recorded all of the different parts and then laid them over each other (or something like that, I'm less than an amateur with recording technology). You can't play the Lever du jour in this version with just two hands.

https://en.scorser.com/Out/4770099.html

I've actually arranged and performed the second suite piano solo myself, but didn't think there'd be enough interest to justify the effort of revising and attempting to publish it (and have no idea how one goes about these things).

Amazing! What an accomplishment! You must be very experienced at transcription. I'm planning to learn more about self-publication. I think where there's a will, there's a way.

[octavesong]

Here is Ravel's complete piano draft. I say 'draft' because it's very much a working copy- Claire-Marie Le Guay recorded all of the different parts and then laid them over each other (or something like that, I'm less than an amateur with recording technology). You can't play the Lever du jour in this version with just two hands.

https://en.scorser.com/Out/4770099.html

I've actually arranged and performed the second suite piano solo myself, but didn't think there'd be enough interest to justify the effort of revising and attempting to publish it (and have no idea how one goes about these things).

Hello, I would be very grateful if someone could share these "working scores", because they're not available anymore (link is not valid), and I was unable to find it through the search.

[thorn]

Are they not on IMSLP?

[octavesong]

No, there are only selected parts, and not the beginning of the 2nd Suite, which is present on Claire-Marie Le Guay's record above in this post. I'm currently in the (slow and a bit hard, heh) process of my own arrangement, but I guess no one could make it better than the composer himself in his working copy and put much respect for the original work.