Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G was always intended to be a frivolous work. In contrast to many of the concertos of his day, what Ravel was aiming to write was something light, fanciful and not inherently ...

Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4; Britten: Diversions for Piano and Orchestra (Leon Fleisher, piano; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Sony ...

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British pianist Nicholas McCarthy, 36 years old, was born without a right hand. He never formally learned to play a musical ...

Maurice Ravel talked about his pieces of music as if they were his children. While he was working on his Piano Concerto in G Major, he wrote to a friend, "(I am) in the middle of my pregnancy with the ...

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel ...

Symphoria’s Music Director, Lawrence Loh, will conduct a Feb. 19 concert featuring the music of three composers who were contemporaries, born within a three-year span from 1873 to 1875: Samuel ...

OVER the summer there has been a slight slackening in the flood of album sets, but there have been many exceptional items recorded on one or two discs. Ravel, whose “Bolero” has made him a good ...

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Watch Stephen Johnson's analysis of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Pascal Rophe. The piano soloist is Roger Muraro. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G - ...