Bolero

Album by Maurice Ravel & Gabriel Pierné & Thierry Escaich & Jean Françaix & Ellipsos Quartet

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral composition by French composer Maurice Ravel, composed and first performed in 1928. The work is characterised by a persistent rhythmic ostinato and a repeating melody that is passed through increasingly varied orchestral colours and dynamics, and it occupies a position in Ravel's late output as an exploration of orchestration and minimalist thematic development in early twentieth-century French music.

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  1. 1.
    Pavane pour une infante défunte
    5:54
  2. 2.
    Le tombeau de Couperin: I. Prélude
    3:01
  3. 3.
    Le tombeau de Couperin: II. Forlane
    5:27
  4. 4.
    Le tombeau de Couperin: III. Menuet
    3:25
  5. 5.
    Le tombeau de Couperin: IV. Rigaudon
    5:19
  6. 6.
    Le tombeau de Couperin: V. Assez vif
    3:47
  7. 7.
    Introduction et Variations sur une Ronde Populaire
    8:40
  8. 8.
    Le Bal
    11:29
  9. 9.
    Tango Virtuoso
    5:14
  10. 10.
    Petit quatuor pour saxophones: I. Gaguenardise
    2:47
  11. 11.
    Petit quatuor pour saxophones: II. Cantilène
    2:44
  12. 12.
    Petit quatuor pour saxophones: III. Sérénade comique
    2:04
  13. 13.
    Bolero
    16:00

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