Classic String Quartet Collection

Originally written as a piano duet for children, this limpid music was later orchestrated and produced as a ballet. The music loses none of its beauty and charm in this masterful arrangement by Carlo Martelli. Beauty and the Beast is based upon the version written by the 18th century French author Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.

Originally written as a piano duet for children, this limpid music was later orchestrated and produced as a ballet. The music loses none of its beauty and charm in this masterful arrangement by Carlo Martelli. Beauty and the Beast is based upon the version written by the 18th century French author Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. For colleges, conservatories and professionals.

Carlo Martelli has skilfully transformed Ravel's original, which he described as orchestration without music, into an effective and exciting exercise in dynamic contrast and colour for the much more restricted medium of the string quartet. Ideal for concerts, weddings and all occasions.

Carlo Martelli has skilfully transformed Ravel's original, which he described as orchestration without music, into an effective and exciting exercise in dynamic contrast and colour for the much more restricted medium of the string quartet. Ideal for concerts, weddings and all occasions.

This arrangement by Carlo Martelli is one of six movements of a suite composed for piano by Ravel in free imitation of the style of Couperin. It is perhaps best known in the orchestral version made by the composer.