Description: "Great music, I have always felt, must always come from the heart." You can't beat that for a thumping-good opening — especially since the man who said it also wrote two of the selections you'll find on this record: "Bolero" (keeps the life juices flowing) and "Pavane For A Dead Princess" (poignantly pulsating). What's more, both the above words and the music are proof-positive that, when it comes to great music, Maurice Ravel's heart was always in the right place! Boléro-wise, it all began with that celebrated lady dancer, Ida Rubinstein. In 1928, she asked Maurice to write her a little something Spanish-style and he accepted - con mucho gusto. According to some sources, inspiration for the Bolero came from a painting of dancers by Goya. Others, disgruntled critics all, claim that the work is devoid of inspiration and must be regarded merely as an orchestral tour de force. Just before the first performance Ravel himself warned that he had indulged in a special, limited experiment of seventeen minutes' duration: "orchestral tissue without music" consisting entirely of a long gradual crescendo. The result is eighteen virtually exact repetitions of a folk-like theme of Spanish-Arabic origin, using each
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Artist: Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Joseph Maurice Ravel, Alexander Borodin
Record Label: Capitol Records
Case Type: Cardboard Sleeve
Custom Bundle: No
Fidelity Level: High-Fidelity
Inlay Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Format: Record
Release Year: 1970
Language: N/A
Style: Symphony
Record Size: 12"
Features: Compilation, Original Cover, Original Inner Sleeve
Performer Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Number of Audio Channels: Stereo
Composer: Alexander Borodin, Joseph Maurice Ravel, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Speed: 33 RPM
Release Title: Bolero
Color: Black
Material: Vinyl
Edition: First Edition
Type: LP
Sleeve Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Era: Classical: Impressionist
Instrument: Symphonic Orchestra
Conductor: William Steinberg
Run Time: 44 min
Genre: Classical, Impressionist Period
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
