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  • Pulcinella
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    • Feb 2014
    • 10884

    Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
    Rapsodie espagnole (1907)
    Performed by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa conductor

    00:00 - No. 1 Prélude à la nuit. Très modéré
    03:57 - No. 2 Malagueña. Assez vif
    06:02 - No. 3 Habanera. Assez lent et d'un rythme las
    08:35 - No. 4 Feria. Assez animé

    The Rapsodie espagnole was completed in 1908, after a two-piano version of the work the previous October. It consists of four movements, the evocative Prélude à la nuit, Malagueña, Habanera, and Feria. The Habenera had originally been written in 1895 as a work for two pianos. With Entre cloches, written two years later, it formed the Sites auriculaires, first imperfectly performed in 1898 by Ricardo Viñes and Marthe Dron on a newly devised instrument, a piano with two keyboards, at a Société nationale de musique concert, to conservative disapproval. Debussy showed interest and borrowed the score of Habanera and it has been widely supposed that the piece gave rise to Debussy's own Soirée dans Grenade a few years later. Rapsodie espagnole was Ravel's first major orchestral work, a demonstration of his originality and of his gifts as an orchestrator. The music moves from the stillness of night, with its four-note descending motif, to be heard again in the second and fourth movement, to two characteristic Spanish dances and a final celebratory Spanish fiesta.


    Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), Rapsodie espagnole (1907)Performed by Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa conductor00:00 - No. 1 Prélude à la nuit. Très modé...

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    • smittims
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      • Aug 2022
      • 4070

      This was a favourite of Leopold Stokowski, who recorded it a number of times. Other, less likely interpreters, who have left broadcast tapes of it, are Sir Thomas Beecham and Wilhelm Furtwangler.

      It was, I think,the only work of Ravel recorded by either of them , odd considering Beecham's preference for French music. The Furtwangler is by the Vienna Phil , and the Beecham was from a concert scheduled to be conducted by Furtwangler shortly before his death. Tommy took over and inisted on keeping the programme intact as a tribute, and it's to this that we owe also what I think is his only recording of a Brandenburg Concerto. The while concert has been issued oin a SOMM CD.

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