Argerich/Dutoit rehearse the Ravel Concerto

[Piet De Ridder]

Fascinating, exciting, deeply interesting, at times funny and at times moving look at a rehearsal of the Ravel G Major Concerto with the incomparable Martha Argerich at the piano and her by then ex-husband Charles Dutoit conducting. Also reveals what an extremely taxing challenge it is, for everyone involved, to get this work to sound as its composer must have imagined it.



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[Markus K]

Those are the moments when I regret not having chosen French but Latin in school.

[RobS]

at those speeds it's really challenging to keep the orchestra well synced, given the rhythmic variety of accents Ravel has put in the concerto. But they succeed...