Ravel: Boléro [from a violist’s perspective]

The Italian violist Federico Bresciani shared this video, showing that Ravel’s famous piece Boléro is a bit… boring, from a violist’s perspective. He wrote: “Maurice Ravel’s Bolero is one of the most famous classical pieces of the 19th [20th] century. Almost every instrument in the orchestra has the honor to play the main theme. Except …

Ravel: Piano Concerto [Argerich, Gorelik]

Accompanied by the RTS Symphony Orchestra, the legendary Argentine classical concert pianist Martha Argerich performs Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major. Conductor: Luis Gorelik. Recorded on July 9, 2022, at the Kolarac Concert Hall in Belgrade. The piece was composed between 1929 and 1931. It is in three movements and is heavily influenced by jazz, which the …

Boléro (Ravel): hr-Sinfonieorchester, Alain Altinoglu

Conducted by Alain Altinoglu, the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) performs Maurice Ravel’s “Boléro“, a one-movement orchestral piece, originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein (1885-1960). Recorded at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on June 22, 2022.

Ravel: Boléro (Tabula Rasa)

Tabula Rasa, an ensemble from Saint Petersburg, Russia, performs their own rendition of Boléro, a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel’s most famous musical composition.

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand [Jean-Efflam Bavouzet]

Accompanied by the hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), French classical pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major”. Conductor: Juraj Valčuha. Recorded at Alte Oper Frankfurt on September 30, 2016. Published by hr-Sinfonieorchester.

Daniel Barenboim – 50 years on stage concert (2000)

Daniel Barenboim’s “50 years on stage concert” (2000) at the Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires. Barenboim played Mozart, Beethoven, Albéniz, Chopin, Schubert, as well as many other composers. More than two hours of greatness, enjoy.

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand [Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at the BBC Proms 2010]

Accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra (the British orchestra based in London), French classical pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major”. Composed between 1929 and 1930, the piece was commissioned by the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (May 11, 1887 – March 3, 1961), who lost his right arm …