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Discovering Masterpieces – Ravel – Bolero

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Video Director: Angelika Stiehler - Artist: Berliner Philharmoniker & Daniel Barenboim - Producer: EuroArts Music International - Conductor: Daniel Barenboim - Featured Artist: Berliner Philharmoniker & Daniel Barenboim - Composer: Maurice Ravel - Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Waldbühne, Berlin | 25 min | 2007 | TV-G

Discovering Masterpieces – Ravel – Bolero

Watch the series 'Discovering Masterpieces’, your audio-visual concert guide to the great masterpieces of classical music. The series brings you 20 half-hour documentaries on 20 classical masterpieces: acclaimed experts, famous soloists and outstanding conductors take you on a journey back to the time and place of composition. In today’s documentary, Maurice Ravel’s ‘Bolero’. This piece, originally composed as a ballet, is Maurice Ravel's most successful work: its world-famous melody has been featured in popular music, motion pictures and even video games. Pianist and writer Paul Roberts vividly explains the music and its structure and also lets the audience know why Ravel was a stringent critic of his own work.

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