Dissecting Ravel's Orchestration

Maurice Ravel is one of the masters of orchestration, and in this video I look at his 'Alborada del Gracioso' which started life as a piano piece, but was then orchestrated by Ravel 15 years later. It gives us a great chance to look at how he goes about turning a 'black and white' idea into a full technicolor one.


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Performances:

Ravel: Miroirs (La alborada del gracioso) - Robert Trevino - Euskadiko Orkestra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mv5Sw9h9Oa0

Ravel: Alborada del gracioso ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Pablo Heras-Casado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGgEroiMBCY

M. Ravel: Alborada del Gracioso - Slobodeniouk - Sinfónica de Galicia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAuZA4cIwlI

Cours de piano - Alborada del Gracioso de Ravel - Jacques Rouvier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y3lfl08tzs

Vitaly Pisarenko plays Ravel - Alborada del gracioso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAIfE0h-2g

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