Favourite Ravanello

Chant_Supremacist

A couple months back I asked the forum for recommendations for more modern repertoire. I got a great list out of it, and I also became quite interested in Ravanello's music. To me it sounds "19th Century" without sounding TOO 19th Century. (I know his productive period extended into the early 20th.) From what I've seen it's also generally approachable for a mixed-skill, all-volunteer choir.

I've been slowly exploring his work since then. As you can see https://www.pandolfopaolo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Ravanello-Oreste-List-of-compositions.pdf his corpus of sacred/devotional music is quite large (and most of it is not on CPDL - I'm uncertain how much of his output is choral).

Could the Ravanello aficionados here post their favourite and/or most liturgically useful pieces of his? Links to scores and recordings would be nice.

monasteryliturgist

Oh we are big Ravanello fans here- especially since there are alot of SSA works which is perfect for a monastery.

I think one of my favorites is Jesu Redemptor Ominum https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/9/9d/Jesu_Redemptor_omnium_RAVANELLO_TTB_v2.pdf

Secondly I love Te Ioseph https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z4LqWlo1pA&list=RD-Z4LqWlo1pA&start_radio=1

Cantibus Organi for the feast of St Cecilia is also quite lovely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjUBT8LtTY&list=RDWfjUBT8LtTY&start_radio=1

Ave Maris stella is nice as well but not my go to https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Ave_maris_stella,_op._66/25_(Oreste_Ravanello)

CGM

His "Haec dies" for Easter is a good one.

It was originally written for three upper voices:
— score here

It was adapted by Ted Marier for four voices and included in his Pius X hymnal.
— score here (PDF pp.309-10)
— recording here
— a cappella recording here (in a higher key)

Jeffrey Quick

I can't say I've gotten excited about Ravanello, but his music is always serviceable. I've done the Te Joseph (not a lot of polyphonic settings of that). He wrote so many little easy pieces; I'd like to hear some of his bigger music.

There's a recording of organ music on Tactus which includes a sonata for violin and organ, which is interesting but not really convincing as a sonata.

Chant_Supremacist

@Jeffrey Quick

That's fair. Given my resources I do like a serviceable little piece for your typical Sunday, which explains part of the attraction. His Te Joseph, Veni Creator, and Ave Maris Stella (thank you @monasteryliturgist) fall in this category. I like that they're alternatim too, so they don't replace but just refresh the traditional chants.

His Ave Maria (Op. 66.28), though it's not long, I think shows what he's capable of.

irishtenor

I also like his Ave Maris Stella and have used it in alternatim with the chant

dannyboi0513

We love his Haec Dies, Crux Fidelis is nice as well as Ave Maris Stella.

GerardH

I quite like the attached O Salutaris which has circulated locally as a hand-written score attributed to Ravanello. I assumed it had come from the hard-to-find Prima anthologia vocalis, but it appears that volume is now available online, and it's not in there. My guess is that the score was produced (and transposed) for a local seminary, but the original source I do not know.

EDIT: I just clicked through @monasteryliturgist's links, and this is a contrafactum of Jesu Redemptor omnium. Mystery solved!

EDIT 2: The score on cpdl has an error: the last bass note of bar 5 should be a C-sharp.

OMagnumMysterium

His Quid Retribuam is very nice. Although Te Joseph Celebrent is probably my favorite. And I like the Pascha Nostrum a lot, it can be alternated between psalm verses with the Easter Communion Antiphon.

Chant_Supremacist

If anyone is scrambling for another piece this Sunday check out Ravanello's Crux Fidelis, as recommended above by Dannyboi.

https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/9/91/Crux_fidelis_-_Ravanello.pdf
https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/a/a7/Crux_fidelis_-_Ravanello.mp3

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