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	Maurice Ravel biography - 8notes.com
		Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - Piano Reduction Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
		Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto en sol pour Piano et Orchestra) Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Lucien Garban.
		Maurice Ravel: Bolero Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
	www.8notes.com /biographies/ravel.asp (1488 words)

	Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ravel wrote two operas, the first, described as a comédie-musicale, L'heure espagnole (The Spanish Clock) and the second, with a libretto by Colette, the imaginative L'enfant et les sortilèges (The Child and the Enchantments), in which the naughty child is punished when furniture and animals assume personalities of their own.
		Ravel wrote two piano concertos, the first, completed in 1930, for the left hand only, commissioned by the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the war, and the second, completed in 1931, for two hands.
		Ravel's chamber music includes the evocative nostalgia of the Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet, a violin sonata with a jazz-style blues movement, a piano trio and a string quartet.
	www.naxos.com /composer/ravel.htm (512 words)

	Concerto in G (Ravel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Concerto in G major is a piano concerto by Maurice Ravel composed in the period of 1929–1931.
		The world premiere was on January 14, 1932 with Ravel conducting the Lamoureux Orchestra.
		In performances of the Ravel Piano Concerto in G in which a second piano substitutes for the orchestra, it has become customary to snap the lip of the piano keyboard lid, creating a sound similar to that of the whip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Concerto_in_G_(Ravel) (401 words)

	Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Concerto in G Major for Piano and Orchestra.
		Ravel agreed, and the work he produced is undoubtedly the best-known of all the left-hand works commissioned by Wittgenstein.
		Ravel's brain tumor (if it was that) may have been exacerbated by a car accident in 1932, in which he struck his head severely.
	www.lasr.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/ravel/pianoConG.html (596 words)

	Maurice Ravel Summary
		Ravel's piano compositions, such as Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit are virtuosic, and his orchestrations, such as in Daphnis et Chloé and his orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, are notable for the effective use of tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation.
		The incident—named the Ravel Affair by the Parisian press—also led to the resignation of the Conservatoire's director, Théodore Dubois.
		Ravel was fond of chords of the ninth and eleventh, and the acidity of his harmonies is largely the result of a fondness for unresolved appoggiaturas (listen to the Valses Nobles et Sentimentales).
	www.bookrags.com /Maurice_Ravel (2762 words)

	Piano Concerto in G major
		The Concerto in G was begun first, but the Left-Hand Concerto was the first to be completed.
		The first [the G major], which I propose to play myself, is a concerto in the strict sense, written in the spirit of Mozart and Saint-Saëns.
		Ravel acknowledged that he was not a virtuoso in the league of Mozart and Saint-Saëns, and he gave the Concerto in G to Marguerite Long.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2756 (701 words)

	Maurice Ravel: Biography - Classic Cat
		Joseph-Maurice Ravel (born March 7, 1875 in Ciboure, France; died December 28, 1937 in Paris) was a French 20th century composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety, richness and poignancy of his music.
		Ravel's piano compositions, such as Miroirs and Gaspard de la Nuit, are virtuosic, and his orchestrations, as in Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, are notable for their effective use of tonal color and variety of sound and instrumentation.
		Ravel had left the Roman Catholic Church and was a self-declared atheist, although he was also a spiritualist like many skeptics of his generation.
	www.classiccat.net /ravel_m/biography.htm (2027 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Piano Concerto in G; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Sonatine: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A couple of decades ago she recorded the two Ravel concertos for London records, performances which were among the most recommendable available.
		There are pianists who capture the jazzy swagger of the outer movements of the G major Concerto with more unbuttoned glee, and those who revel in the Gothic melodrama of the left-hand work with greater abandonment, but overall de Larrocha's traversal of both works is unmatched in poise and elegance.
		She projects the long opening solo of the Adagio assai of the G major Concerto with a nobility and poignance that brings a tear to the eye.
	amazon.ca /Ravel-Concerto-Valses-sentimentales-Sonatine/dp/B000003F8O (556 words)

	Concerto pour piano et orchestre en sol majeur
		Ravel saw this concerto as being in the spirit of Mozart and Saint-Saëns, light and brilliant, and in contrast to those heavier classical concerti [e.g.
		I told Ravel one day how anxious I was, after all the fantasy and brilliant orchestration of the first part, to be able to maintain the cantabile of the melody of the piano alone during such a long slow flowing phrase...
		There is however some doubt whether Ravel actually took the baton for the recording itself: although he was closely involved with the preparation and monitoring of the performance, he is reported to have left the actual conducting to the young Portuguese conductor Pedro de Freitas-Branco.
	website.lineone.net /~jdspiers/concerto2.htm (515 words)

	RAVEL ~ NOTES Page ~ aMUSIClassical Directory
		Composed for piano in 1914, Ravel arranged this suite of six studies in to an orchestral suite of four mmts in 1920.
		Ravel was to be the soloist but due to illness the work was premiered by pianist Margaret Long to whom he dedicated the work.
		Ravel composed his PC for the Left Hand, in 1931, for Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein who lost his right arm in World War I. He premiered the work in Vienna in November of 1931.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/musiclassical/ravel.html (1056 words)

	Grimaud and Zinman give us cultivated Gershwin and Ravel concertos. Review By Max Westler
		Ravel, on the other hand, used jazz to disrupt and gently mock the expectations of his audience.
		But what makes this Concerto in F different from any other is the care and attention that pianist and conductor pay to the formal structure and unity of the work.
		All the great performances of the Ravel G Minor Concerto are inimitable: you wouldn't mistake the courtly elegance of Michealangeli/Gracis for the athletic effervescence of the Argerich/Abbado, or the intensity and concentration of the Zimmerman/Boulez for the bonhomie of Henriot-Schweitzer/Munch.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0306/classical/gershwin_ravel.htm (676 words)

	Maurice Ravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ravel's admiration of American jazz led him to include some jazz elements in a few of his later compositions, especially the two piano concertos.
		Ravel never married, and is not known to have had any intimate relationships.
		Ravel reportedly conducted a group of Parisian musicians following the world premiere of his second piano concerto, the ''Concerto in G,'' with Marguerite Long, who had been the soloist in the premiere.
	www.artistopia.com /maurice-ravel (2235 words)

	Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Ravel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major (Concerto pour la main gauche en ré majeur) was composed by Maurice Ravel between 1929 and 1930, concurrently with his Piano Concerto in G Major.
		Ravel is quoted in one source as saying that piece is in only one movement (Daily Telegraph July 11, 1931 p.
		As is traditional in a concerto, the thematic material is presented first in the orchestra and then echoed by the piano.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Hand_(Ravel) (551 words)

	Stravinsky Petrushka - Ravel Concerto in G major
		Brilliant and virtuoso the concerto certainly is. Whether or not the middle movement succeeds in avoiding profundity is open to question, although Ravel's assertion that profundity was not parr of his intention can probably be accepted at face value.
		What he meant by a 'genuine concerto' was a reaction to the piano concertos of Brahms, which he felt were written for piano against orchestra.
		In Ravel's concerto the orchestra is light and transparent, not of overwhelming size, and all the principals of the wind and brass sections have substantial solo opportunities, more reminiscent of the practice of Mozart than of the late romantics.
	www.benjaminzander.com /news/detail.asp?id=162 (3054 words)

	Sheet Music Plus - Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto en sol pour Piano et Orchestra)
		Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra (Concerto en sol pour Piano et Orchestra)
		Composed by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arranged by Lucien Garban.
		Maurice Ravel: Piano Masterpieces of Maurice Ravel For solo piano...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/item.html?item=4004106&id=50330 (237 words)

	Center for Jazz Arts \| Classical Arts
		Completed in 1931, French composer Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major was first performed on January 14, 1932, at the Salle Pleyel in Paris, conducted by the composer himself, featuring acclaimed pianist Marguerite Long.
		Originally intending to perform the piece himself, Ravel had dedicated many, long hours practicing the piano études of both Chopin and Liszt, preparing for the eventual premiere of his concerto, but due to his increasingly ill health, and the technical challenges of his brilliant new work, it would ultimately prove impossible.
		The first [the G major], which I propose to play myself, is a concerto in the strict sense, written in the spirit of Mozart and Saint-Saëns.
	www.centerforjazzarts.org /classical_2a.html (500 words)

	Classical Net Review - Ravel/Prokofiev - Piano Concertos
		Schlimé's Ravel is also more than passable, but some will find his second movement Adagio assai just too slow.
		The sound on both concertos is good, recorded at slightly lower levels than usual, however.
		The 3 Improvisations, for solo piano, by Schlimé are less interesting, and their vague quotations of material in the two concertos here will not likely register strongly with the average listener.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/p/pen86080a.html (517 words)

	Oehmsclassics: Rogé, Pascal - George Gershwin: Concerto in F · Maurice Ravel: Concerto in G major
		During this time, Maurice Ravel was completing his major tour of the US and Canada, which took him from New York to Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Minneapolis, Houston, Colorado, Buffalo and Montreal, and during which he also conducted some of his own works.
		The Concerto in G Major was.rst performed on January 14, 1932 with soloist Marguerite Long, to whom the work is dedicated.
		Ravel con.rmed this with the words, “This concerto is related to my violin sonata, in which I also used elements of jazz, though only moderately.” Are there also remembrances of Gershwin’s music, of Ravel’s impressions from his 1928 visit to America?
	www.oehmsclassics.de /cd.php?formatid=178&sprache=eng (1868 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravel: Piano Concertos: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Maurice Ravel,Andre Cluytens,Jeffrey Thomas,American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ravel was a master of orchestration, and their are lovely solos for winds, percussion and harp.
		Ravel is said to have composed this movement with the score of the slow movement of Mozart's clarinet quintet in front of him, as a model for restrained yet deep expression and simplicity.
		Ravel began with the idea of writing a parody of Bertrand but fell in with the mood of the poems in spite of himself.
	www.amazon.com /Ravel-Concertos-Johann-Sebastian-Bach/dp/B00000GCA9 (2233 words)

	BOR_Zind
		Ravel, Bolero, number 2 (two measures before the solo) to number 3, tempo 60.
		Ravel, Bolero, number 2 (two measures before the solo) to number 3, tempo 66.
		Ravel, Piano Concerto in G, first mov., 3 quarter-note pick up to eight measures before rehearsal numb.
	www.idrs.org /PUB/BsnOrR_Z/BOR_Zind.HTM (232 words)

	Maurice Ravel - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		[in Dutch] Maurice Ravel studeerde compositie in Parijs o.a.
		Ravel ontwikkelde zich als een classicistisch componist, die de traditionele vormen met souverein meesterschap wist te hanteren als kader voor zijn vernieuwingen.
		– (1962) Aram Ilyich Khachaturian: Premiere of violin concerto, in Moscow, Russia.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/ravel (1738 words)

	Moravec plays Beethoven, Franck, Ravel
		RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G. Ivan Moravec, pianist; Prague Philharmonia/Jirí Belohlávek, cond.
		Although he studied with Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, whose Ravel G major Concerto from 1957 is enshrined as one of EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century (coupled with the revised version of Rachmaninov’s Fourth, both conducted by Ettore Gracis), I could find no documentation of a previous Moravec recording of the Ravel.
		You may prefer to hear the G- major Concerto this way, so I’ll leave it to your judgment, although mine is qualified.
	classicalcdreview.com /imcon.html (443 words)

	RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye by Marat Bisengaliev, Francois-Joel Thiollier at ...
		RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye by Marat Bisengaliev, Francois-Joel Thiollier at Audio Lunchbox
		5: RAVEL: Bolero / Daphnis et Chloe / Piano Concerto / Ma mere l'oye - RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major - Adagio assai
		RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G major - Adagio assai
	www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=24318 (401 words)

	concertorep
		Roy Howat is well known for background expertise that spans his repertoire, much of which he knows from the composers' manuscripts.
		His tempo and other corrections to Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto were used by Peter Donohoe and Sir Simon Rattle for their EMI CD.
		Ravel's G major Concerto and Franck's Symphonic Variations are freed from false traditions that scramble one and weigh down the other, and Howat's recent performances of Fauré two concertante works in the UK and Germany were hailed as revelations of Fauré's energy and freshness.
	www.geocities.com /royhowat/concertorep.html (218 words)

	RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G; PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 5 in G; SCHLIME: 3 Improvisations - Francesco Tristano ...
		Both were composed in 1932 and both were the last piano concerto from both composers.
		Ravel's G Major concerto was written in Paris and Prokofiev's in Berlin.
		I find Alicia de Larrocha's 1993 recording of both Ravel concertos for RCA with Leonard Slatkin conducting my favorite performances, but the fidelity, clarity and impact of Schlimé's SACD version makes the standard CD sound dull and opaque in comparison.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1579 (426 words)

	Classical CD Reviews- Feb 1999 RAVEL piano concertos Zimerman : Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ravel's G Major Concerto was first performed in 1932.
		Although Zimerman's phrasing and shading is lovely enough, I felt he was a little detached, lacking that expressive poignancy that Michelangeli brought to this most beautiful of Ravel's creations and Boulez's accompaniment might have been that shade warmer.
		It is cast in one continuous movement with the Spanish influences of the G Major Concerto much more pronounced.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/feb99/ravelpc.htm (503 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravel/Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos: Music: Sergey Rachmaninov,Maurice Ravel,Ettore Gracis,Philharmonia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Ravel is liquid crystal, and the slow movement achingly beautiful.
		Similarly, the early-jazz element of Ravel's G Major concerto comes out far more positively in another 2-disc set, in which the late Werner Haas is heard in both Ravel concerti and in his works for solo piano.
		One of my favorite albums has always been the Ravel Concertos with Argerich playing the G maj Concerto and Beroff play the Concerto in D. I still think this disc is unmatched when it comes to an album with both concertos.
	www.amazon.com /Ravel-Rachmaninov-Piano-Concertos-Sergey/dp/B00004R95P (2024 words)

	Prokofiev.org - Prokofiev, Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc / Argerich, Abbado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op.26, II.
		Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No 3 in C major, Op.26, III.
		Ravel, Piano Concerto in G major, I. Allegramente
	www.prokofiev.org /recordings/album.cfm?aid=000122 (101 words)

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