Another French impressionist masterpiece, Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin uses old dance forms to explore various forms of loss – of his friends and colleagues fallen in the war, of a sense of national pride, and maybe most of all of what he regarded as a golden age of French music during Couperin’s lifetime.

“Le Tombeau de Couperin is a particularly lovely re-imagining.” Charlotte Gardner for The dCS edit Classical Choices

This arrangement was commissioned by the Orchestre de Pau-Pays de Béarn.