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	Concerto pour la main gauche en ré majeur
		Ravel began work on the Concerto for the left hand (in D) in 1929, after receiving a commission from the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who had lost his right arm in the Great War.
		Ravel was not pleased with Wittgenstein's performance of the work when he heard it in Vienna later in 1932, and took particular exception to some "arrangements" which the pianist had made to the music.
		But Ravel himself would have been aware that his concerto was in some sense a legacy of a conflict which had cost his pianist an arm and in which he himself had fought on the opposite side.
	website.lineone.net /~jdspiers/concerto1.htm (751 words)

	Ravel, Maurice (1875 - 1937) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Ravel is ranked with Debussy as one of the most influential composers at the turn of the twentieth century.
		Maurice Ravel is often linked with his countryman Claude Debussy, and there are some important similarities in their music.
		In the 1910s and 1920s, Ravel was influenced by the presence in Paris of the Russian Igor Stravinsky and the activities of the Ballets Russes.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/ravel.html (550 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.
		As is traditional in a concerto, the thematic material is presented first in the orchestra and then echoed by the piano.
		The art of the left hand: a study of Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the left hand and a bibliography of the repertoire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Piano_Concerto_for_the_Left_Hand_(Ravel) (552 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Piano Concerto in G; Valses nobles et sentimentales; Sonatine: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003F8O (556 words)

	Prokofiev.org - Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand, Prokofiev / Browning / Leinsdorf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand, Prokofiev / Browning / Leinsdorf
		Ravel: Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand: II.
		Ravel: Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand: III.
	www.prokofiev.org /recordings/album.cfm?aid=000549 (158 words)

	Classical CD Reviews- Feb 1999 RAVEL piano concertos Zimerman : Music on the Web (UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major*.
		Ravel's G Major Concerto was first performed in 1932.
		The Concerto for the Left Hand dates from the same period, 1930-31.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/feb99/ravelpc.htm (503 words)

	Amazon.com: Ravel: Piano Concertos: Music: Johann Sebastian Bach,Maurice Ravel,Andre Cluytens,Jeffrey Thomas,American ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		The piano writing is virtuosic in the extreme, with long arpeggios, huge chords in the piano's lower register, extended solo passages, and leaps from one part of the keyboard to the other.
	www.amazon.com /Ravel-Concertos-Johann-Sebastian-Bach/dp/B00000GCA9 (2209 words)

	[Maurice Ravel — Concerto for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra] notes by Paul Serotsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) — Concerto for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra
		The dark hues of the Concerto in D Minor are generally ascribed to the technical limitations of “the left hand”.
		With maximum majesty, Ravel’s orchestra reiterates the soloist’s stately sarabande, redolent of nobler times - whilst they are equally vitriolic in attacking the central jazz “march”, the opposing side of the coin.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /Programme_Notes/ravel_pclefthand.htm (276 words)

	Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scored for solo piano, 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), clarinet, E flat clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet, trombone, triangle, snare drum, cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, wood block, whip, tympani, harp, and strings.
		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)

	classical music - andante - paul hindemith's piano concerto for the left hand, rejected by its dedicatee, gets its ...
		Such was the case with Paul Hindemith's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, which made its long-overdue U.S. premiere, with pianist Leon Fleisher as soloist, on the San Francisco Symphony's program Wednesday night at Davies Symphony Hall.
		The concerto's history is somewhat convoluted, but its moral is clear: Call it "Beware the volatile pianist," or "Be careful whom you write for." Commissioned by pianist Paul Wittgenstein —; who had lost his right arm in battle during World War I — Hindemith composed the work in 1923.
		Composed in four uninterrupted movements — this is a concerto in name only — the work skitters out of the gate with the first notes of the introduction and keeps accelerating unimpeded into the busy second movement.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=26082 (778 words)

	CONTEXT: Issue No. 19: Book Reviews
		In Ravel, his twelfth book for Editions de Minuit, he turns toward a nonfictional genre, biography, as he focuses upon the last ten years of the life of the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937).
		Playing on generic tensions, Echenoz appropriates Ravel, drawing him into the world of fiction purposefully, offering us a portrait of the artist that questions the distinctions we habitually draw between biography and novel, and rendering those distinctions largely moot in the end.
		The Ravel that Echenoz delivers to us is an artist at the height of his renown, internationally fêted and generally taken to be the most accomplished composer of his age.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no19/ravel.html (318 words)

	American Composers Orchestra - SoundAdvice Jan. 10, 1999 "The Gershwin Circle"
		ACO launched its three-year Millennium celebration with "The Gershwin Circle" a concert of music for piano and orchestra by Gershwin and musicians in and around his sphere of influence: these were Vernon Duke (also known as Vladimir Dukelsky), Oscar Levant and Maurice Ravel.
		Four piano soloists shared the spotlight: Scott Dunn offered the world premiere of Vernon Duke's Piano Concerto in C (which Dunn orchestrated), Alan Feinberg took the honors in Oscar Levant's concerto, Ursula Oppens tackled the Ravel Left-Hand Concerto, while Leon Bates performed Gershwin's less-well-known Rhapsody No. 2.
		Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
	www.americancomposers.org /advice19990110c.htm (1210 words)

	classical music - andante - a long-buried left-hand piano concerto by paul hindemith gets its premiere at last
		There was a famous shouting match with Ravel; Wittgenstein thought the composer's Concerto for the Left Hand — which is completely ravishing and today a classic — was "over-orchestrated," Fleisher explains.
		And he insisted on the right to adjust certain passages and told Ravel that the performer is not the slave of the composer.
		Long-Lost Hindemith Concerto for Piano Left-Hand Surfaces in Pennsylvania Farmhouse
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=26051 (1123 words)

	Piano Forums at Piano World: Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand
		While I won't say this is superior to his other concerto (this one WAS commissioned, after all, and I think both have their merits), it is his most tumultuous work ever, with La Valse trailing closely behind.
		It was also Wittgenstein who claimed that Ravel was a very poor pianist (although he was accepted to the Paris Conservertoire as a pianist), a rumor which survives to today.
		Ravel was meant to tour with the first concerto but he wasn't in good health.
	www.pianoworld.com /ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/6502.html (1249 words)

	INKPOT#25 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: Singapore Symphony Orchestra - 26th April 1997
		The oriental character of the final movement, with the fascinating colours of woodwind with piano, leads to a brassy march with some grotesque elements on the lower brass, Danny Elfman-like repetitions and rhythms (e.g.
		Emerging from the mists, the contrabassoon (responsible for the lowest notes in an orchestra) intoned its grotesque, dark and ominous chant, opening the brilliant score that is Ravel's one-movement Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, commissioned by and for Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist who lost his right arm while fighting in the first World War.
		Thiollier (left) was the commanding soloist, full of contrast, like his one hand invoking its myriad of colours with five fingers.
	inkpot.com /concert/sso970426.html (797 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Piano Concerto in G major
		Diversions for Piano (left hand) & Orchestra Op.
		Both Ravel concertos feature crisp orchestral solo lick and whirling, incisive tuttis, with a piano soloist to match.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=1536 (211 words)

	Ravel, Prokofiev, Britten: Piano Works for the Left Hand:Ravel, Prokofiev, Britten: Piano Works for the Left Hand
		Ravel, Prokofiev, Britten: Piano Works for the Left Hand:Ravel, Prokofiev, Britten: Piano Works for the Left Hand
		While there is no dearth of recordings of the beautiful Ravel 'D major Piano Concerto for the Left Hand' (I still favor the old John Browning recording...), there are very few opportunities to hear Britten's 'Diversions for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra' and that is one fine reason for obtaining this recording.
		His reading of the Ravel is luminous and his flair for Prokofiev is evident in this Concerto for Piano (left hand) and Orchestra No. 4.
	www.softforall.com /store/P-B0000027IR.html (222 words)

	ATES ORGA - PROGRAMME AND CD NOTE LIBRARY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Acknowledging familiar concerto precedent, the central section is a vigorous Allegro vivace - not quite a scherzo but turbulent enough - framed by a rocking motif interesting for anticipating the first of the Symphonic Dances.
		Bernstein: Elegy for Mippy I, horn and piano
		Alkan may have composed almost exclusively for the piano - but his music (as Hans von Bulow recognised early on) traverses a range of sonorities, a cosmos of textural spacings and extremes, a span of melodic dialogues and chordal balances as brilliantly lit and theatrically charged in their associative imagery as anything orchestral.
	www.cadenza.org /library/atesorga.php (8287 words)

	Amazon.com: Samson Francois Plays Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Grieg Piano Concerto: DVD: Samson ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ravel Concerto for the Left Hand and Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
		This DVD restored for the posterity, the craft of this notable pianist of aristocratic presence and elegant phrasing: Samson Francois who played a superb performance of the celebrated Ravel' s "Piano Concert for the left hand", dedicated originally to Paul Wittgenstein the Austrian pianist who lost his right arm in the WW1.
		The Grieg piano concerto is a fine example of Francois' art.
	www.amazon.com /Samson-Francois-Plays-Piano-Concerto/dp/B0001AW02U (873 words)

	Piano Forums at Piano World: Ravel - Concerto for the Left Hand Only
		I know that Ravel himself studied Saint-saens left hand etudes when writing the concerto, so I recently bought the sheet music for both the concerto and the saint-saens etudes.
		Well there are some good Scriabin pieces for left hand alone.
		Another great left hand piece to study is the Bach-Brahms Chaconne.
	www.pianoworld.com /ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/2/11619.html (873 words)

	Eventful: Dutoit & Thibaudet: a Tour de Force
		Flamboyant French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet is renowned for his showmanship, dazzling technique and poetic performances of the music of Ravel, Debussy and even Duke Ellington.
		Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand is powerful and profound, a veritable tour de force.
		Where Ravel’s concerto is suspenseful, Liszt’s Totentanz is spooky: a virtuoso danse macabre with a dash of wit.
	eventful.com /events/E0-001-000311003-3 (224 words)

	June Symphony: modern french music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The soul of these pieces lies as much if not more in subtle colouring and shading as in their bravura effects, and Maestro Akiyama stinted not for a moment to caress out performances distinguished for intelligence, wit, and brio.
		That said, the evening's undoubted highlight was André Laplante's simply electrifying reading of Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, eliciting excited bravi from all quarters of the hall and standing ovations in much of it.
		The Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand is altogether of a different order: brooding, intense, technically demanding.
	www.reviewvancouver.org /vs5.html (430 words)

	Samson Francois - Ravel: Concerto For The Left Hand/Grieg: Piano Concerto In A Minor Movie: Samson Francois - Ravel: ...
		Samson Francois - Ravel: Concerto For The Left Hand/Grieg: Piano Concerto In A Minor Movie: Samson Francois - Ravel: Concerto For The Left Hand/Grieg: Piano Concerto In A Minor DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Samson Francois - Ravel: Concerto For The Left Hand/Grieg: Piano Concerto In A Minor
		Restored from the archives, this concert from Samson Francois sees him working his way through two pieces: Ravel's "Concerto For The Left Hand" and Grieg's "Piano Concerto In A Minor." As a bonus there are additional pieces, including "Chopin's 3 Preludes (F-Sharp Minor, G Minor & D Minor)."
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/724349043893BT?source=InktomiDVD (121 words)

	AtollCD: piano concerto for the left hand - ravel, selection from romeo & juliet - prokofiev - auckland philharmonia
		AtollCD: piano concerto for the left hand - ravel, selection from romeo and juliet - prokofiev - auckland philharmonia
		Thrilling live performance from the opening concert of the Orchestra's 2001 series.
		Ravel Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand
	www.atollcd.com /catalog_detail/acd102_ravel_prokofiev.htm (57 words)

	Amazon.fr : Concerto For The Left Hand - Alborada Gracioso - Rapsodie Espagnole: Musique: Maurice Ravel,Leon Fleisher (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amazon.fr : Concerto For The Left Hand - Alborada Gracioso - Rapsodie Espagnole: Musique: Maurice Ravel,Leon Fleisher
		Pavane pour une infante défunte, for piano (or orchestra)
		Valses (8) nobles et sentimentales, for piano (or orchestra)
	www.amazon.fr /Concerto-Left-Hand-Rapsodie-Espagnole/dp/B000063TSM (266 words)

	Pittsburgh Symphony 2004-05 Season: The Complete Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Strauss’ brilliant imagery depicts the quest of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and the colorful music of de Falla is enlivened with masterful puppetry.
		Davis conducts piano virtuoso Jonathan Biss in Schumann’s romantic concerto and Sibelius’ 5th Symphony, expressing the composer’s joy with the world.
		Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 is widely known as the most virtuosic of all piano concertos.
	www.pittsburghsymphony.org /subs06-07/mgc/saturdaybravura.html (156 words)

	Robert Casadesus / Wilhelm Backhaus reissues
		Of major importance is Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, which Casadesus had recorded in Philadelphia with Eugene Ormandy pre-stereo in 1947, included in the Philips Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century CD devoted to him (456 739).
		The first is Lys/Dante LYS 543 on which Casadesus performs with the New York Philharmonic, a CBS broadcast from December 19, 1948, (that includes commentary by Deems Taylor!) featuring Liszt's second piano concerto and d'Indy's Symphony on a French Mountain Air.
		The venerable pianist was the first to record a piano concerto (in 1909, a truncated version of the Grieg), and although his name is usually associated with Beethoven and Brahms, he had a fiery assured technique obvious from his 1927 recording of all of the Chopin Etudes.
	classicalcdreview.com /rclive.html (594 words)

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