The Halle, live from Nottingham
Stuart Flinders presents a concert given by the Halle, clarinettist Sergio Castello Lopez and conductor Sir Mark Elder, live from the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham.
Stuart Flinders presents a concert of works by Ravel, Debussy and Mussorgsky given by the 贬补濒濒茅, clarinettist Sergio Castello Lopez and conductor Sir Mark Elder, live from the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
Impressions of exotic lands long held a fascination for Ravel, and a hint came early in his career: Rapsodie Espagnole is a vision of Spain conjured by his mother's memories of Madrid. It incorporates a Carmen-inspired Habanera written 12 years earlier, and concludes with a dramatic explosion of colour and passion - and castanets.
But how else to end his Bolero other than with the instruction "as loudly as possible"? Beginning life as a commission for ballerina Ida Rubinstein, Ravel built a daringly simple structure of 17 variations, whose mounting excitement is reflected in the work's signature crescendo. Its sensational success somewhat baffled Ravel, who had predicted that most orchestras would refuse to play it.
The conductor Serge Koussevitzky urged Ravel to turn his dazzling use of orchestration to an orchestral transcription of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for solo piano, and in the process created another 20th-century classic. Ravel's gallery tour retains all the bizarre imagery and muscular realism of the original, and blends delicate image-painting with all-Russian majesty.
In between, Debussy's exacting Premi猫re Rhapsodie - a work composed as a test piece for the Paris Conservatoire's annual clarinet competition, yet one which Debussy felt to be one of the most pleasing works he had written.
Ravel: Rapsodie Espagnole
Debussy: Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Ravel: Bolero
INTERVAL
Mussorgsky (orch Ravel): Pictures at an Exhibition
贬补濒濒茅
Mark Elder (conductor)
Sergio Castello Lopez (clarinet).
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Part 1
Duration: 53:57
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Maurice Ravel
Rapsodie Espagnole
Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.![]()
Claude Debussy
Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
Performer: Sergio Castell贸 L贸pez. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.![]()
Maurice Ravel
Bolero
Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.Interval
Duration: 22:23
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Maurice Ravel
Ma Mere I'oye (Mother Goose) - Version for Piano with Four Hands
Performer: Louis Lortie. Performer: H茅l猫ne Mercier.![]()
Modest Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death - Field Marshall
Performer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Performer: Ivari Ilja.Part 2
Duration: 42:30
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Maurice Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.Post-concert
Duration: 34:09
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Maurice Ravel
Sonatine
Performer: Vadym Kholodenko.![]()
Claude Debussy
La plus que lente
Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.![]()
Claude Debussy
L'Isle joyeuse
Performer: Seong-Jin Cho.![]()
Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in C sharp minor, Op 64 No 2
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- Chopin: Piano works: Maria Joao Pires/Pavel Gomziakov.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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- Tue 17 Oct 2017 19:30大象传媒 Radio 3
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