#maurice ravel

Première vidéo de la série “Entre loge et scène”: pour célébrer le 140e anniversaire de la naissance de Maurice Ravel, l'OSR et le Grand Théâtre s'associent autour d'un double programme, composé de deux opéras courts du compositeur, en version de concert: la Comédie musicale L'Heure Espagnole et la fantaisie lyrique L'Enfant et les sortilèges. Sous la direction du vénérable Charles Dutoit, les publics genevois et lausannois auront le plaisir de découvrir une pléiade d'étoiles montantes de la scène lyrique internationale.

gottahavesoul:

[playlist] somewhere in northern italy 1983 (classical)

for when you wish you lived on the italian countryside with your lover, playing instruments and painting together.

 0:00 - miroirs: iii. une barque sur l'ocean - maurice ravel
7:03 - l'isle joyeuse, l. 106 - claude debussy
13:15 - barcarolle in f-sharp major, op. 60 - frédéric chopin
21:53 - les jeux d'eaux a la villa d'este, s. 163 - franz liszt
29:24 - au bord d'une source - franz liszt
33:18 - auf dem wasser zu singen, d. 774 - franz schubert (transcription: franz liszt)
37:08 - viii. ondine - claude debussy

Maurice Ravel - “Don Quichotte à Dulcinea”

Gérard Souzay, baritone

La Valse, Royal Ballet, 1959

Photo by Houston Rogers.

Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, c. 1913. Stravinsky recalled fondly of Ravel’s defense of The Rite of Spring in later years during one of his Harvard lectures: "I hold that it was wrong to have considered me a revolutionary. When the Rite appeared, many opinions were advanced concerning it. In the tumult of contradictory opinions, my friend Maurice Ravel intervened practically alone to set matters right. He was able to see, and he said, that the novelty of the Rite consisted, not in the writing, not in the orchestration, not in the technical apparatus of the work, but in the musical entity.“