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English: On the composer's birthday, Maurice Ravel's Boléro, Lamoureux Orchestra, directed by Ravel himself, first part. Français : À l'occasion de l'anniversaire du compositeur Maurice Ravel , écoutez le Boléro joué par l'orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux, dirigé par Ravel lui-même, première partie.
Ravel's own recording from January 1930 starts at approximately 66 per quarter, slightly slowing down later on to 60–63. [9] Its total duration is 15 minutes 50 seconds. [ 21 ] Coppola's first recording, at which Ravel was present, has a similar duration of 15 minutes 40 seconds. [ 21 ]
Orchestra 1907 A15: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Antar: Orchestra 1909 Incidental music to a 5-act play by Chékry-Ganem; partial reorchestration of most of the symphonic poem Antar Op. 9, the movements reordered and interspersed with reorchestrated fragments of the same work, a fragment of the opera Mlada, orchestrated fragments of songs from the Romances Op. 4 and Op. 7, and an extract from ...
Ravel in 1925. Joseph Maurice Ravel [n 1] (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living ...
In the years 1904–05, as he was finishing his String Quartet, Ravel composed Miroirs (Mirrors), a suite of five short piano pieces. [13] He later orchestrated two of them: the orchestral version of "Une Barque sur l'océan" (A Barque on the Ocean) came out in 1906; [14] more than a decade elapsed before Ravel orchestrated the other, the "Alborado del gracioso".
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The first recording of the concerto, made in 1932, featured Marguerite Long as soloist with an ad hoc orchestra of the best players in Paris, [22] conducted, according to the label, by the composer. [23] In fact Ravel supervised the recording sessions, while a more proficient conductor, Pedro de Freitas Branco, took the baton. [22]
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