Benjamin, Arthur_Le Tombeau de Ravel: Valse-Caprices

This edition consists of a piano score and solo clarinet part. Arthur Leslie Benjamin (1893 – 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.  Le Tombeau de Ravel was written in 1957 for viola and piano, for violist William Primrose.  Benjamin thereafter requested that clarinettist Gervase de Peyer adapt the solo part for clarinet.  As noted by the composer in the preface: "So as to make the work characteristic of either the Clarinet or Viola, it will be noticed that there are many differences (in the passage work especially) between the two. Thus it cannot be said that either is a transcription of the other."  It was first performed by de Peyer in 1957 or 1958 at the Wigmore Hall in London, England.  This Boosey & Hawkes edition was published in 1958. The work is in variation form, with six waltzes presenting a brilliant, varied palette of moods.  As its title indicates, there are recollections of composer Maurice Ravel, particularly through its harmony and rhyt