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14 de dic. de 2021 · He expressed interest in meeting Gershwin and hearing him play the Rhapsody in Blue and other jazz-influenced works. (Led by guest conductor André de Ridder, the CSO will perform works by Gershwin and Ravel, with pianist Inon Barnatan as soloist, in concerts Jan. 6-8.)
Discover Ravel Plays Ravel / Gershwin Plays Gershwin by George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel released in 1998. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
19 de jul. de 2017 · The first movement is filled with the sound of the blues, with its ambiguous shifts between major and minor. The final movements of both works share a similar rapid, driving feel. Ravel flirted with jazz in earlier compositions (the sultry Blues second movement of the Violin Sonata No. 2 from 1927, for example).
6 de dic. de 2000 · Find release reviews and credits for Ravel Plays Ravel / Gershwin Plays Gershwin - George Gershwin, Maurice Ravel on AllMusic - 2000
16 de may. de 2015 · Gershwin was drawn to French music, just as Ravel was drawn to American jazz—and Gershwin’s mid-1920s works, Rhapsody in Blue and the Piano Concerto in F. In this hour, the fascinating...
When George Gershwin asked him for lessons in the 1920s, Ravel, after serious consideration, refused, on the grounds that they "would probably cause him to write bad Ravel and lose his great gift of melody and spontaneity".
great musical treasures,’ opined Ravel. (In 1922 Gershwin wrote a twenty-five minute Afro-American tragic ‘opera’ called Blue Monday.) With Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin had written a free-form ‘symphonic’ work, a rhapsody, but one in jazz idiom, which of course, growing out of the music of the black races, makes extensive use of blue notes.
