Ravel's Bolero

[Pulcinella]

If using Windows, in this case, click on the little image, then on the larger one generated to get it even larger, then right-click on the new large image and select "copy image location". Now initiate a reply to this thread, select the "Insert Image" button (three in from the right, above the typing window) further select "From URL" in the drop-down window, paste the image location you saved into the URL space, remove the tick from "Retrieve remote file and reference locally" and hit "OK". That should do the trick. Like learning to ride a bike, you might fall off, once or twice, before you get the hang of it.

Thanks; I'm on an iPad most of the time, though occasionally on my main Mac.
I'll explore/investigate what to do at some point though.
The principle should be the same.

[Pulcinella]

Parts of the outfit are indeed essentially conical!

[visualnickmos]

Parts of the outfit are indeed essentially conical!

So the Bolero is a belly-dance. News to me.

[Pulcinella]

So the Bolero is a belly-dance. News to me.

Maybe it should have been coupled with the Dance of the seven veils.

[pastoralguy]

Hello everyone - my first post here! (I'll pop over and do an intro. later...)

My father also had the Rignold LP with the somewhat conical young woman on the cover! It was all part of my education...
ok:

Welcome!

[jayne lee wilson]

Parts of the outfit are indeed essentially conical!

..so that's where these ambitious blondes got the idea from... .......

[cloughie]

So the Bolero is a belly-dance. News to me.

She’s maybe the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

She’s maybe the Sorcerer’s Apprentice?

Mickey Mouse has definitely changed these days.

[Pulcinella]

The Montreal/Dutoit recording is outstanding, with a very wide dynamic range. I also have a Decca Phase 4 version which has compressed dynamics, presumably aimed at sounding impressive on a Dansette player.

Indeed it is.
Listened tonight at a louder volume than usual (partner was out at band practice!), and was very impressed.

[Barbirollians]

Dutoit and Monteux .

[cloughie]

Mickey Mouse has definitely changed these days.

Yes but he didn’t have Hugo Rignold playing his strings!

[Alain Maréchal]

<< Since so much has lately been said, principally by Ravel, as to the correct tempo for his too-famous Boléro, considerable interest attended his directing of that piece as a final act of a long evening. May we state that those who thought a bolero was a short, bright jacket worn for fancy dress had better make other plans? According to Ravel, a bolero is apparently a long, black crepe cape with a train the full length of a hall carpet, worn exclusively when walking to funerals.>>

Janet Flanner, 1932, 'Letter from Paris' The New Yorker.

[Pulcinella]

Deezer has a 'Compare Ravel' compilation, with five versions stacked up: Ravel, Ansermet, Munch, Monteux, Paray.

Far from suffering from overkill, I'm finding this piece addictive, so I intend to work thorough this set sometime soon, though it's time I followed the score too (I'll use Bryn's link if my own copy doesn't turn up soon).

[Master Jacques]

<< Since so much has lately been said, principally by Ravel, as to the correct tempo for his too-famous Boléro, considerable interest attended his directing of that piece as a final act of a long evening. May we state that those who thought a bolero was a short, bright jacket worn for fancy dress had better make other plans? According to Ravel, a bolero is apparently a long, black crepe cape with a train the full length of a hall carpet, worn exclusively when walking to funerals.>>

Janet Flanner, 1932, 'Letter from Paris' The New Yorker.

Exactly the kind of ignorant snobbery the piece needs saving from. She was clearly just stupid enough to think she was intelligent.

[Master Jacques]

Deezer has a 'Compare Ravel' compilation, with five versions stacked up: Ravel, Ansermet, Munch, Monteux, Paray.

Far from suffering from overkill, I'm finding this piece addictive, so I intend to work thorough this set sometime soon, though it's time I followed the score too (I'll use Bryn's link if my own copy doesn't turn up soon).

I'd be specially interested to hear your report on the Paray, which (sadly for me) I've never heard.

(And yes, it is addictive!)