#tombeau

The Sainte-Chapelle de Vincennes is a Gothic royal chapel within the fortifications of the Château de Vincennes on the east edge of Paris, France. It was inspired by the Sainte-Chapelle, the royal chapel within the Palais de la Cité in Paris. It was begun in 1379 by Charles V of France to house relics of the Passion of Christ. It is no longer used as a church, and is now a French historical monument operated by the Centre des monuments nationaux.

Ensemble Ouranos plays the first movement of Le Tombeau de Couperin (M. Ravel), arranged for woodwind quintet.

The piece, although often heard in an orchestral arrangement that Ravel himself made, began life as a piece for solo piano, as here, played by Angela Hewitt at Koerner Hall, Toronto, in February 2012.

The title was punned upon by Douglas Hofstadter in his volume Le Ton beau de Marot, which he wrote both as an actual tombeau, or elegy, for his wife and as a meditation on translation and its limits and pleasures.

Marseille, la cathédrale de la Major (une des plus grandes de France), de style néo-byzantin.

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