The Sound Board

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

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...