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Reel-to-reel: 2-TRACK - MAURICE RAVEL - BOLERO LA VALSE - Columbia 7-1/2 IPS Reel TO Reel Tape
224.50 USD
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17 Oct 2021
10 Oct 2021
22 bids
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United States
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Columbia
Classical
Bolero
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COLUMBIA JMB-32
MAURICE RAVEL
BOLERO
LA VALSE
LEONARD BERNSTEIN Conductor
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
I very much enjoyed testing this Capitol 2-track today!
Ravel is one of my favorite classical composers and Bolero is one of my all-time favorite classical compositions! La Valse is also high on my list of favorites.
The sound quality of this 7-1/2 i.p.s. reel tape is very good and so is t he stereo presentation. This 2-track plays from start to finish with absolutely no issues. The tape is fresh, flat, shiny and supple. The pack on the reel is flat.
The existing Scotch tail was retained, and a new leader was added.
This tape is wound tail out on the reel - needs to be rewound to an empty reel before play.
Please see the photos to check the condition of the box and reel.
Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.
Before Boléro, Ravel had composed large-scale ballets (such as Daphnis et Chloé, composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (e.g. the second orchestral version of Ma mére l'oye, 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (for example La Valse, 1906–1920). Apart from these compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances, from his earliest successes—the 1895 Menuet and the 1899 Pavane — to his more mature works such as Le Tombeau de Couperin, which takes the format of a dance suite.
Boléro epitomizes Ravel's preoccupation with restyling and reinventing dance movements. It was also one of the last pieces he composed before illness forced him into retirement. The two piano concertos and the song cycle Don Quichtte á Dulcinée were the only completed compositions that followed Boléro.
Joseph Maurice Ravel (March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Consérvatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism, and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers' music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known.
A slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies or church music. Many of his works exist in two versions: first, a piano score and later an orchestration. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la Nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and his complex orchestral works such as Daphnis and Chloé (1912) require skillful balance in performance.
Ravel was among the first composers to recognize the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision.