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Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917) honors friends lost in WWI with luminous Baroque dances—more grace than grief. In the 1919 orchestration, the oboe sings. As Ravel’s 150th nears, revisit Jaime Martín with Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Favorite movement? #Ravel150 #Orchestral
Re-INVENTANT Ravel triomfa al MACVAC dins del Festival ARC Clàssica! 🎹🎥
Pianista Josep M. Colom + visuals d’Eli E. Miranda = un viatge sensorial inolvidable.
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#Music 🎹 Celebrate Ravel's 150th anniversary with pianists Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Malcolm Martineau. Enjoy their 'complete' interpretations of Ravel's piano works and songs. Perfect for every classical music enthusiast. #Ravel150 #ClassicalMusic
Album cover Mussorgsky-Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Sir Georg Solti Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Illustrations: portraits of the composer & conductor, & scenes from Pictures
On Modest Mussorgsky's birthday I'm listening to Georg Solti's 1980 recording of Ravel's version of Pictures at an Exhibition, an orchestration tour-de-force.
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I'll be teaching an analysis class on the piano music of Maurice Ravel, starting in April at RSH Düsseldorf. In addition, there will be a lecture concert on Ravel's water-inspired compositions on Tuesday, 6 May, 7:30 pm, where I will talk about »Jeux d'eau« et alii. Join me if you like! #ravel150
#Ravel150 c'est à l'Opéra de Monte Carlo qu'a été créé il y a 100 ans L'enfant et les sortilèges @warnerclassics.bsky.social @francemusique.fr @bachtrackfr.bsky.social
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Can't get enough Ravel this week, for the big 150th birthday party. Hadn't seen this performance (c. 1999?) of La Valse — with Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra until today. As noted elsewhere, the oboe section seems to be having a particularly good time
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More for Ravel's 150th birthday (yesterday): Alborada del gracioso and Rapsodie espagnole, here with Les Siècles and conductor Adrien Perruchon, from 22 May 2024 at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.
My first time hearing the ensemble, which sounds marvelous.
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In Hereford Cathedral early this morning to prepare a small anniversary tribute to Maurice #Ravel for tonight's Evensong #Ravel150
Daphnis and Chloe Ballet in One Act Two dancers, leaning on each other’s shoulders.
A female and male dancer, representing Daphnis and Chloe, arms outstretched.
Daphnis and Chloe embrace
The two dance together, her back to him
Inside the album is a 14-page booklet with five illustrations by Andy Warhol, who began doing album artwork in 1949.
What a wonderful package, showing the LP record format at its best.
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Album cover, now playing Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Charles Munch Boston Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Red Seal A young woman & man, dressed as a nymph & a shepherd.
This is my favourite LP in our entire collection, of more than 2,500.
From 1955, Charles Munch’s peerless recording of Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe.
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There’s something special about this album, besides the music. See my next post…
Album cover Debussy La Demoiselle Élue Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
More Robert Casadesus Ravel: from 1950, the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with Eugene Ormandy.
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A few years ago I had a bad fall & (temporarily) lost the use of my right hand; I listened to this work a lot :)
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Il mare di Ravel.
Fantasmagorico.
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Now playing, album cover Ravel The Complete Piano Music Casadesus 3 Record Set Legendary Performances Odyssey Mono only Grand Prix du Disque
From 1951, the complete solo piano music of Ravel played by Robert Casadesus.
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Two hours & 9 minutes of music, every minute perfection.
Not a lot. Another pianist-composer whose career was five years shorter, Beethoven, wrote at least five times as much.
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Album cover Alexis Weissenberg - Seiji Ozawa - Orchestre de Paris Ravel - Concerto in G Prokofiev - Concerto no. 3 Colour portrait of the pianist, dressed in black.
Listening to Alexis Weissenberg & Seiji Ozawa play the Ravel Piano Concerto in G, from 1971
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The cover photo of Weissenberg is by Pietro Pascuttini.
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Maurice Ravel #botd in 1875: "L'Aurore" for tenor, choir and orchestra
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Hoy se conmemora el 150 aniversario de Maurice Ravel nacido en Hoy se conmemora el 150 aniversario de Maurice Ravel nacido en Ciboure.
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Three musicians bundled up in warm clothes. Ravel is smoking his usual cigarette.
Erich Auerbach's photograph of Maurice Ravel with Marguerite Long & George Szell in Prague, 1932
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Notice that in nearly every photograph I've posted today, Ravel is smoking or holding a cigarette.
"Ravel smoked almost constantly and he was hooked on French Caporals."
- Mark Miller
A drawing of the young Ravel, with a beard and an upturned moustache.
Maurice Ravel by Achille Ouvré, 1909
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"There is not one single bad piece of Ravel."
- Charles Dutoit
Album cover Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit - Sonatine Valses nobles et sentimentales Martha Argerich, Piano Deutsche Grammophon Stereo Argerich at the keyboard.
To celebrate Ravel's 150th birthday, I'm lining up all my LPs (33 in all) to play today. This is a favourite, from 1975.
The beautiful portrait of Martha Argerich is by Werner Neumeister.
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Caricature of Ravel at the keyboard
Maurice Ravel by David Levine, 1975
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"He would be annoyed when journalists would write about his genius. 'Nonsense!' he'd say. 'I know music better than a lot of people, but that is all. I'm just a very careful worker, just like a good cabinet maker - that's my talent'."
- Manuel Rosenthal
📅 Joyeux anniversaire, Maurice #Ravel, né #CeJourLa en 1875 ! 🎂🎶
Boléro : Maurice Ravel dirige l'Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Lamoureux, 1928.
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Ravel in a suit & homburg hat, smoking a cigarette & holding his gloves in one hand.
Maurice Ravel by Hanna Elkan, 1932
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"The surface of a composition by Ravel was sure to be modern for its decade. But at heart he was a French classic. He was classic in his basic formalism, his faultless taste, his clarity & symmetry of arrangement & economy of means."
- Olin Downes
Maurice Ravel en soldat, 1916
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According to Wikipedia, "Stravinsky expressed admiration for his friend's courage: '... at his age and with his name he could have had an easier place, or done nothing'."
It's cold at the front!
A painting of a ship on the ocean, with a setting sun. Underneath, the caption "Une barque sur l'Océan..." with the first bar of Ravel's score.
Une barque sur l'océan...
Painting by D. Arguyrelly; music by Maurice Ravel, 1920
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Ravel's piece played by André Laplante:
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That Ravel piece, the Introduction and Allegro, was the theme song for one of my favourite TV dramas, BBC's 1972 version of Henry James's The Golden Bowl.
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Ravel, dressed in a three-piece suit, sits in a chair in a garden.
Maurice Ravel by Elsie Gordon
snapshot print, 1928
National Portrait Gallery London
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My favourite Ravel piece:
Introduction and Allegro for flute, clarinet, string quartet & harp, 1906
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