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Title: Pavanes anyone?
Post by: Balapoel on Sunday 21 July 2013, 23:59
I was listening to Faure's Pavane, op. 50, and realized that most Pavane's I know are quite beautiful in a sad, wistful way. I'm trying to explore romantic pavane's and this is what I've come up with. Any others?

Andriessen - Symphony No. 2 (1937) -2 Pavane
Bainton - Pavane, Idyll and Bacchanal
Bonis - Pavane
Casella - Pavane, Op. 1
Chausson - Pavane, Op. 26
Faure - Pavane, Op. 50
Martin - Pavane couleurs du temps for string quintet
Poulenc - Suite Francaise -2 Pavane
Ravel - Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
Ravel - Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant
Rontgen - 6 early Netherlands Dances, Op. 46 -6 Pavane 'Lesquercarde'
Tellefsen - Pavane de la Reine Elisabeth in c# minor, Op. 44

Title: Re: Pavane's anyone?
Post by: eschiss1 on Monday 22 July 2013, 00:21
Is the Mel Bonis Pavane you're referring to her Op.81 (published as part of her Pavane, sarabande et bourrée, by E. Demets of Paris during the 190xs?)
A quick look suggests some other Pavans composed during the Romantic era generally speaking, though I don't know them yet- one by Albeniz (his Pavana-Capricho), one for piano and strings (published 1901) by d'Ambrosio, organist Charles Ferlus' "Pavane de la ligue" (pub.1871), and others... not a commonly used title by composers who flourished 1820-1915 or so, but not unknown.
Title: Re: Pavanes anyone?
Post by: Balapoel on Monday 22 July 2013, 00:25
Certainly not common...
Title: Re: Pavanes anyone?
Post by: eschiss1 on Monday 22 July 2013, 00:40
There's been a trend - more than one thread - of consciously archaic music (and other forms of art) going back many centuries (in music, from pieces that just use the rhythm or form or etc. of a well-known idea of an earlier period as a frame to hold ideas that are otherwise very much the composer's own- whether Korngold or Sorabji in the 20th century, or earlier examples- to works that more obviously evoke their models in one way or another, to... ... (Ravel's le Tombeau de Couperin is -- somewhere in there...er... tangent, that. Saint-Saëns' ballet music to Henry VIII is an interesting example, to judge from what I've seen - not yet heard - of it. Mozart's Suite in C (unfinished) for keyboard (after Händel) obviously is inspired by this general idea (obviously...) - and the Pavan dance, (and ones very like it) have often ended up as parts of Romantic/more recent suites for similar reasons.

(Never, that I know of, the "dump" - doleful slow elegiac tune - which Romeo asked to be played to lift his spirits in Shakespeare's play...)
Title: Re: Pavanes anyone?
Post by: Balapoel on Monday 22 July 2013, 01:29
Not related (possibly), but there is the Slavic "Dumky" or "Dumka", of which Dvorak Trio,  op. 90 is a great example. But certainly different than a Pavane, at least after Faure modernised it.
Title: Re: Pavanes anyone?
Post by: alberto on Monday 22 July 2013, 09:55
There is the Pavana for piano or orchestra by Aldo Finzi (1897-1945, no relation with Gerald) tonal and decidedly romantic (Nuova Era recording of the piano version).