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Two extra hands, those of Clément Lefebvre, join yours in Mamère l’Oye , which concludes your collection with a touch of fairytale. Did the composer of L’Enfant et les Sortilèges remain an overgrown child, as one might think on seeing the host of curios and toys that fill the rooms of his house, Le Belvédère in Montfort- l’Amaury? The portrait of Maurice Ravel would have been incomplete without the album of Ma mère l’Oye . With this work, we touch on his view of the childhood that he loved, with its naivety, its simplicity and its capacity for wonder, which he knew how to set to music so poetically and tenderly. Ma mère l’Oye depicts a fairyland, which it celebrates with a hint of solemnity: Le Jardin féérique , in all its profundity and purity, is its radiant apotheosis.