Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G was always intended to be a frivolous work. In contrast to many of the concertos of his day, what Ravel was aiming to write was something light, fanciful and not inherently ...

Yshani Perinpanayagam picks her favourite recording of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Following its successful premiere at the Salle Pleyel in Paris in 1932, by the pianist Marguerite Long, ...

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel ...

Pianist Ariel Dechosa stunned the audience that braved the horrendous Friday-night traffic to catch his performance with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) at Meralco Theater recently.

Maurice Ravel talked about his pieces of music as if they were his children. While he was working on his Piano Concerto in G Major, he wrote to a friend, "(I am) in the middle of my pregnancy with the ...

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The BBC Symphony Orchestra with conductor Joshua Weilerstein in American music by Bernstein, Rouse and Dessner. Francesco Piemontese joins for Ravel's G major Piano Concerto. Recorded at the Barbican.

In 1914, the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was shot in the elbow and his right arm amputated. Wittgenstein resolved to continue his career as a performer and asked some of the most famous ...

Rhoda Coghill and the Radio Éireann Orchestra play from Maurice Ravel's Concerto in G (the concluding pages of the first movement and two excerpts from the 2nd - slow- movement) Recorded in the ...

We open our 2013 NZSO subscription season with an extravagant exploration of the senses, featuring three luscious works by French composer Maurice Ravel and Russian composer Alexander Scriabin’s The ...

The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra performed at Powell Hall on Saturday had several forms of perfection. It opened with incidental music (the third “Symphonic Tableau after La foi” by ...