Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (November 2013)

MAURICE RAVEL ~ Bolero
(Radio Symphony Orchestra Ljubljana - Direttore Samo Hubad)

Boléro
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Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by Maurice Ravel. Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian ballerina Ida Rubenstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.[2] Before Boléro, Ravel had composed large scale ballets (such as Daphnis et Chloé, composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (such as the second orchestral version of Ma Mère l'Oye, 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (such as La Valse, 1906–1920). Apart from such compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled 
dances, from his earliest successes (the 1895 Menuet and the 1899 Pavane) to his more 
mature works like Le tombeau de Couperin (which takes the format of a dance suite).

Boléro epitomises Ravel's preoccupation with restyling and reinventing dance movements. It was also one of the last pieces he composed before illness forced him into retirement: the two piano concertos and the Don Quichotte à Dulcinée song cycle were the only compositions that followed Boléro.



MAURICE RAVEL ~ Bolero

Camille Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony NO.3 4th Movt performed by the Leicester Symphony Orchestra at De Montfort Hall

Recorded by Richard Wheelband and Paul Holland

Camille Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony NO.3 4th Movt

Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

Beethoven Symphony No. 7, II Allegretto

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Stabat Mater

Cantate "Cessate, Omai Cessate" RV 684: Ah Ch'Infelice Sempre

David Loebel conducts the New England Conservatory Symphony in a performance of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. Recorded live at NEC's Jordan Hall April 14, 2011.
For more information: http://necmusic.edu/concerts 

Stravinsky: Firebird Suite - Infernal Dance of King Kaschei

Rossini The Thieving Magpie Overture, LSSO 1985

Mussorgsky - A Night on Bald Mountain

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Hilary Hahn, violin

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47 (May 2019)

Gorzow Philharmonic Orchestra performing live the 7th Symphony by Beethoven under Piotr Borkowski conducting. September 2011.

Camille Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony NO.3 4th Movt

Richard Wheelband

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