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Joseph Maurice Ravel (French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 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 '30s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating elements of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.
Rapsodie espagnole is an orchestral rhapsody written by Maurice Ravel. Composed between 1907 and 1908, the Rapsodie is one of Ravel's first major works for orchestra. It was first performed in Paris in 1908 and quickly entered the international repertoire. The piece draws on the composer's Spanish heritage, and is one of several of his works set in or reflecting Spain.
The genesis of the Rapsodie was a Habanera, for two pianos, which Ravel wrote in 1895. It was not published as a separate piece, and in 1907 he composed three companion pieces. A two-piano version was completed by October of that year, and the suite was fully orchestrated the following February. At about this time there was a distinctly Spanish tone to Ravel's output, perhaps reflecting his own Spanish ancestry. His opera L'heure espagnole was completed in 1907, as was the song "Vocalise-Etude en forme de habanera".
In the interval between the composition of the original Habanera and the completion of the four-movement Rapsodie, Claude Debussy had published a piano suite, Estampes (1903), of which the middle section, "Soirée dans Grenade", had a Spanish theme. To counter any accusations of plagiarism, Ravel made certain that the date 1895 was clearly printed for his Habanera in the published score of the Rapsodie.
Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel (1875--1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition. ▶️ More great classical music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLO09Th4dLYVmVRpaFH9-imHCs_EPDjnHS 🔔 Subscribe to The Wicked North for the very best in classical music: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWickedNorth #ClassicalMusic #MauriceRavel
Enjoy the best music of Maurice Ravel! A tracklist is below. The pieces which are marked with a star I see as exceptional interpretations. (click show more) *0:00 Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte (Pavane for a dead princess) 5:46 "Ondine" from Gaspard de la Nuit 12:13 Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin *17:04 Jeux d'Eau 22:37 Sonatine 1 26:43 Miroirs #3, "Une Barque sur l'Océan" 33:43 Prelude from Le Tombeau de Couperin *36:50 Toccata from le Tombeau de Couperin *40:41 Miroirs #4, "Alborada del Gracioso" 46:57 Piano Concerto in G Major, Movement 2 56:02 Bolero P.S. 45:34 is almost too cool to exist
Wiener Philharmoniker - Maurice Ravel - Bolero - Regente Gustavo Dudamel (HD) At the closing concert of the Lucerne Festival 2010, the Wiener Philharmoniker performed Maurice Ravel's probably most famous piece of music under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel: Boléro. The concert was broadcast live in more than 50 cinemas in Europe on 18 September 2010. Recording Date: 18 September 2010 Composers: Maurice Ravel Orchestras: Wiener Philharmoniker Conductors: Gustavo Dudamel Director: Michael Beyer
Maurice Ravels "Bolero", gespielt vom WDR Sinfonieorchester unter der Leitung von Alondra de la Parra am 27. Januar 2022 in der Kölner Philharmonie. Maurice Ravel - Bolero WDR Sinfonieorchester Alondra de la Parra, Leitung **** MEHR ALONDRA DE LA PARRA MIT DEN WDR ORCHESTERN IN UNSERER PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS66eMqyKkK0Olk0cLFCpZkoR6qNNYvAR **** ► Mehr zum Sinfonieorchester, zu Konzerten und aktuellen Livestreams gibt es bei https://sinfonieorchester.wdr.de ► Das WDR Sinfonieorchester bei Facebook https://www.facebook.com/wdrsinfonieorchester Die Idee, eine Laufbahn als Musiker anzustreben, kommt früh und wird von den Eltern unterstützt: Mit 13 Jahren erhält Maurice Ravel an einer privaten Musikschule Unterricht und studiert gleich im Anschluss. Nur noch we...
"Miroirs" (Reflections) is a suite for solo piano written by French impressionist composer Maurice Ravel between 1904 and 1905, first performed by Ricardo Viñes in 1906. Around 1900, Maurice Ravel joined a group of innovative young artists, poets, critics, and musicians referred to as Les Apaches or "hooligans", a term coined by Ricardo Viñes to refer to his band of "artistic outcasts". To pay tribute to his fellow artists, Ravel began composing Miroirs in 1904 and finished it the following year. Movements 3 and 4 were subsequently orchestrated by Ravel, while Movement 5 was orchestrated by Percy Grainger, among other. Miroirs has five movements, each dedicated to a member of Les Apaches: 1. "Noctuelles" ("Night Moths") - Dedicated to Léon-Paul Fargue, Noctuelles is a highly chromatic work...
Experience Ravel’s life and music in its historic context with music historian Susan Waterfall. With contemporary art and photographs, and 26 musical excerpts, you’ll get an overview of a composer whose creative life spanned the voluptuous conclusion of the Belle Epoque, the trauma of the First World War, and the new paths to modernism that emerged in the 20’s and 30’s. 85 years after his death, nosy biographers are still trying to understand Ravel’s mysterious private life, as inscrutable as his music is irresistible. www.susanwaterfall.com LINKS TO FULL PERFORMANCES: 0:00 Mother Goose Suite Jussen Bros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfJqf40vyn8 13:10 Menuet Antique Louis Lortie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGRNip9vbao 13:57 Habanera Tchaidze/Pisareva https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Painting - Lake George, 1869 Artist - John Frederick Kensett (1816--1872)
Maurice Ravels "Daphnis et Chloé", aufgeführt vom WDR Sinfonieorchester und dem WDR Rundfunkchor unter der Leitung von Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Live aufgezeichnet am 19. Februar 2016 in der Kölner Philharmonie. Tableau I (Une prairie а la lisiére d'un bois sacré) 00:00:04 1. Introduction et danse religieuse 00:10:22 2. Danse générale 00:11:49 3. Danse grotesque de Dorcon 00:13:37 4. Danse légére et gracieuse de Daphnis 00:18:04 5. Danse de Lycéion 00:21:08 6. Nocturne. Danse lente et mystérieuse des Nymphes Tableau II (Camp des pirates) 00:26:08 7. Introduction 00:28:40 8. Danse guerrière 00:33:03 9. Danse suppliante de Chloé Tableau III (Paysage du première 1er tableau, а la fin de la nuit) 00:38:59 10. Lever du jour 11. Pantomime (Les amours de Pan et Syrinx) 00:50:45 12. Danse générale...
Martha Argerich, piano. Orchestra della Svizzera italiana. Direttore Alexander Vedernikov. Progetto Martha Argerich 2016. Lugano
Ravel’s Gaspard de La Nuit was written in 1908. It’s three movements contain some of the most intricate, poetic and technically difficult piano music ever written. They were inspired by the fantastical poems of Aloysius Bertrand. The first movement, Ondine, is about a seductive underwater nymph, and Ravel’s music is unprecedentedly rich and virtuosic in presenting an array of shimmering watery textures of various sorts. The music in this extract comes from the climax of the movement, in which giant tertiary steps of harmony are presented in complex cascades of notes in both hands. On the page it looks almost unplayable, but the passage is worked out with extraordinary precision so that the patterns lie under the fingers with the thumbs playing a crucial melodic role. MUSICAL EXCERPTS ...
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), Rapsodie espagnole (1907) Performed by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa conductor 00:00 - No. 1 Prélude à la nuit. Très modéré 03:57 - No. 2 Malagueña. Assez vif 06:02 - No. 3 Habanera. Assez lent et d'un rythme las 08:35 - No. 4 Feria. Assez animé The Rapsodie espagnole was completed in 1908, after a two-piano version of the work the previous October. It consists of four movements, the evocative Prélude à la nuit, Malagueña, Habanera, and Feria. The Habenera had originally been written in 1895 as a work for two pianos. With Entre cloches, written two years later, it formed the Sites auriculaires, first imperfectly performed in 1898 by Ricardo Viñes and Marthe Dron on a newly devised instrument, a piano with two keyboards, at a Société nationale de mu...
Maurice Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony ∙ Pablo Heras-Casado, Dirigent ∙ Europa Open Air des hr-Sinfonieorchesters und der Europäischen Zentralbank ∙ 24. August 2017 ∙ Weseler Werft, Frankfurt am Main ∙ Website: http://www.hr-sinfonieorchester.de Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hrsinfonieorchester
DePaul Symphony Orchestra performs Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole at Orchestra Hall, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Musikfest Bremen, 1994 The music published in my channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform me immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be me care to remove immediately the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated.
Marshev isn't particularly well-known as a pianist, but his playing is consistently excellent, displaying the kind of big-hearted, unforced virtuosity that Gilels was famed for. Even in an unabashed crowd-pleaser like the Rhapsodie Espagnole, the technical feats are always subservient to the musical demands: the sound is beautifully paragraphed, and the climaxes as excitingly physical as the softer moments are tender.
Recorded in QPAC's Concert Hall on Saturday 16 November 2019 as part of our Season Closing Gala. Under the baton of Alondra de la Parra in her last concert as Music Director. I. Prélude à la nuit 0:18 II. Malagueña 4:20 III. Habanera 6:41 IV. Feria 9:12 https://www.qso.com.au
BBC PROMS 2011 from the Royal Albert Hall, London Juanjo Mena, the new Chief Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, makes his Proms debut with a glittering and inventive performance of Ravel's Rapsodie espagnole. BBC Philharmonic Juanjo Mena (conductor). For more information on this prom, please visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/whats-on/2011/july-22/12
Celi giving a searching performance of Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole with the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in September 1979. This channel is not associated in any way with the London Symphony Orchestra, or its own CD label, LSO LIVE. These are audio recordings made by LSO fans over a period of some 60 years, and are not rips of LSO LIVE recordings. We have greatly enjoyed these performances over the years and just wish to share them with other music lovers. No copyright infringement is intended; please make contact if there is an issue.
Das Boston Symphony Orchestra (Boston Symphony, BSO) ist ein Symphonieorchester mit Sitz in Boston, Massachusetts. Es wird zu den großen Symphonieorchestern der USA (Big Five) gezählt. Das Orchester geht regelmäßig auf Welttournee und veröffentlichte eine Vielzahl an Tonträgern.
Joseph Maurice Ravel (French: [ʒɔzɛf mɔʁis ʁavɛl]; 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 '30s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating elements of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.