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Pierre Boulez - Ravel: Bolero
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Ravel’s mechanical Spanish masterpiece has become his most recorded work, and virtually synonymous with his name as a composer. It was, however, originally called Fandango, being completed between July and October 1928 and first heard at the Paris Opera on November 22, with choreography by Bronislava Nijinska and Walter Straram as conductor. Its overwhelming success in both ballet and concert use (1930) took Ravel and his coterie by surprise, for he saw it as "an experiment in a very special and limited direction," using two "impersonal" themes - "folk tunes of the usual Spanish-Arabian kind." Although he modestly considered that the orchestral writing was "simple and straightforward throughout, without the slightest attempt at virtuosity," the sudden modulation to E major near the end is impeccably timed and never fails to electrify its audience, however many times they may have heard it.
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