Wie was Maurice Ravel? Hoe bewoog hij zich in de wereld, hoe stak hij in zijn pak? Raphaël Personnaz vond het uit, en ís Ravel in de film Boléro van Anne Fontaine. Raphaël Personnaz (42) móést het ...
Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...
Ever experimental, and a real pioneer of asking questions of form in music, Ravel had long toyed with the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic ...
Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history I don’t know about you, but I love losing myself ...
Composed in 1928, Ravel's rhythmic piece will be forever synonymous with ice-skating stars Torvill and Dean. On Valentine’s Day in 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean became the highest-scoring ...
When the Sarasota Orchestra performs Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” at its next Masterworks concert, principal percussionist Marcelina Suchocka will be getting herself into a zone. For nearly 15 straight ...
Even Maurice Ravel couldn't quite understand the enormous popularity of this piece. To his colleague Arthur Honegger, he said, "I created just one masterpiece, and it's 'Bolero'; unfortunately, it ...
De Bolero van Maurice Ravel behoort tot de populairste muziekstukken ter wereld. Naar het schijnt wordt er gemiddeld ieder kwartier door iemand naar geluisterd, een bewering die te mooi is om te ...