Uploaded April 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Performed by Pascal Rogé and Denise-François Rogé
Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'Oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, Sonatine, to their parents). Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève Durony premiered the work at the first concert of the Société Musicale Indépendante on 20 April 1910. The piece was transcribed for solo piano by Ravel's friend Jacques Charlot the same year as it was published (1910)
0:00 I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Duo Campion/Vachon)
Pavane of Sleeping Beauty
Lent
1:29 II. Petit Poucet
Little Tom Thumb / Hop o' My Thumb
Très modéré
4:39 III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes
Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas
Mouvt de marche
7:40 IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête
Conversation of Beauty and the Beast
Mouvt de valse très modéré
11:43 V. Le jardin féerique
The Fairy Garden
Lent et grave
Performed by Pascal Rogé and Denise-François Rogé
Ravel originally wrote Ma mère l'Oye as a piano duet for the Godebski children, Mimi and Jean, ages 6 and 7. Ravel dedicated this work for four hands to the children (just as he had dedicated an earlier work, Sonatine, to their parents). Jeanne Leleu and Geneviève Durony premiered the work at the first concert of the Société Musicale Indépendante on 20 April 1910. The piece was transcribed for solo piano by Ravel's friend Jacques Charlot the same year as it was published (1910)
0:00 I. Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant (Duo Campion/Vachon)
Pavane of Sleeping Beauty
Lent
1:29 II. Petit Poucet
Little Tom Thumb / Hop o' My Thumb
Très modéré
4:39 III. Laideronnette, impératrice des pagodes
Little Ugly Girl, Empress of the Pagodas
Mouvt de marche
7:40 IV. Les entretiens de la belle et de la bête
Conversation of Beauty and the Beast
Mouvt de valse très modéré
11:43 V. Le jardin féerique
The Fairy Garden
Lent et grave
