Maurice RAVEL (1875–1937): Orchestral Works • 6
Piano Concerto in G major • Tzigane for violin and orchestra • Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Jennifer Gilbert, violin
François Dumont, piano
Orchestre National de Lyon
Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Composed between 1929 and 1931, Ravel’s two piano concertos reflect his enthusiasm for jazz, though one that was thoroughly absorbed into his own idiom. The ‘Concerto in G major’, originally conceived as a Basque rhapsody, is lightly scored but sports a vivacious percussion section, galvanising motor rhythms and a slow movement of astonishing beauty. The ‘Concerto for the Left Hand’, commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein who had lost his right arm in the First World War, is a single movement tour de force, as is ‘Tzigane’, a gypsy violin showpiece of dazzling virtuosity.
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Other volumes of Ravel’s Orchestral Works:
RAVEL: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572887
RAVEL: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572888
RAVEL: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573124
RAVEL: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573545
RAVEL: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.573448
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