Ravel’s eternally charming Mother Goose Suite was originally composed for piano 4 hands between 1908 and 1910. At a later date it was orchestrated and included  additional movements.<br>
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Joachim  Linckelmann’s arrangement for woodwind quintet evokes Ravel’s sound world realizing it with that special blend of wind instruments. The suite contains: “ Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty”; “Tom Thumb”; “ Laideronnette ”, “empress of the  pagodas”; “Conversations of Beauty and the Beast”  and lastly “The enchanted Garden”.<br>
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This first ever arrangement of Ravel’s masterpiece will quickly find a place in concert halls!<br>