Ravel - Bolero
 

What do you think of Ravel's Bolero?
Everyone I make him/her listen to it, they say it is boring and lifeless. To me it sounds like something which makes me high.

What do you think of it?

Ravel's Bolero is a beautiful piece like all others from this marvelous composer, and...I think...the first piece that uses the saxophone in the orchestra. If Bolero makes you high, then try listening to Ravel´s Daphnis and Chloe.

I love Ravel, especially Gaspard de la Nuit and Jeux d'eaux (both piano pieces). Check out Martha Argerich playing Jeux d'eau - she really gets Ravel. Completely transcendent, tears a hole in space we can look through:

I absolutely adore Bolero, one of my fav pieces of music.

I love Bolero, and have done ever since i first heard it, which was as musical accompaniment to a show on TV - think it was Disney - that showed a series of time-lapse (sped up) videos of plants growing and flowers blooming.

To appreciate Bolero you should not think of it as a conventional piece, like a song with a structure. It has more in common with ambient music such as produced by Brian Eno or Klaus Schulze. The well-known part of Tubular Bells where the instruments enter one by one is a similar kind of piece - repetition, but with little changes introduced each time the main motif is repeated.

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Try listening also "Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte", in its simplicity is a really beautiful piece, for me :)

uhuh you are really a great connoisseur! :clap:

(I know I can talk in italian with you, but I think it'd be a bad-manner by me)

"Ravel" by Jean Echenoz
 

Ravel wrote this music that made him famous in a day,
for a dancer friend who wanted to renew his repertoire;
a little busy music he did not believe.
Council about this episode read "Ravel" by Jean Echenoz,
a literary gem that provides some moments of great pleasure.

The whole structure of the piece is brilliant. It's long and grand, at least to me. It's a pain to play though. Requires patience and you really need to be prepared to give everything at the end to make it sound good.

I like it, but more like an audience than playing it in the orchestra. It's a little tedious.

da dadada da dadada dadadadadada

One of the most overrated classical music compositions in my opinion.

Good stuff. Relaxes me.

I like it well enough, but it's a shame that this is the work Ravel is known for by many when, despite it being undeniably fairly effective, it has much less to offer than much of his work.

its amaaaazing