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Friday, 20 August 2010

Maurice Ravel

One of my favourites, especially the 2nd movement:









The French 'impressionists' made some lovely music at the beginning of last century. Check Debussy and Satie as well as Ravel.

2 comments:

mr tea said...

really quite beautiful isn't it. manic and sombre at times too. reminds me of that Venetian Snares album Rossz Csillag Allat Szletett minus the million hits of percussion, though I'm sure you made that connection

toot! said...

I never made the connection to Snares...there's a hell of a lot of string quartets out there! Interestingly the Ravel Quartet is influenced by gamelan music.

Along with some other classics throughout the album, one of Snares' tracks is based around Elgar's (an English chap) Cello Concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5C99JyP2ns

And the Snares: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PBeKzVhWHY