Cinq mélodies populaires grecques

Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (FR) Five Greek Folksongs. Ravel composed the piano accompaniments to these folk melodies from 1904 to 1906 for several lecture-recitals on songs of oppressed peoples (Greeks and Armenians). Some of the melodies are from the island of Chio. Three (some sources say four or even five) other songs were also set by Ravel, but they have not been recovered: »A vous, oiseaux des plaines«; »Chanson de pâtre épirote«; and »Mon mouchoir, hélas, est perdu.« On 20 February…