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Offline SDL

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Ravel concerto
on: April 01, 2005, 12:16:24 PM
Anyone know where I can get this to download?  Not the left hand one.
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Offline joell12068

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #1 on: April 01, 2005, 09:20:47 PM
I'll send it to you.

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #2 on: April 01, 2005, 10:27:00 PM
awesome concerto, I have the sheet music. Haven't learned it, but it doesn't seem too difficult to me. Tricky parts are, probably, the cadenza in the first movement, and the repeated notes stuff in the third movement.

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #3 on: April 01, 2005, 10:59:59 PM
The left hand one is a trillion times better though :(
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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #4 on: April 01, 2005, 11:06:12 PM
I like both of them very much. The G major concerto is very light and happy-sounding, as Ravel said: "In the spirit of Mozart and Saint-saens". The left hand concerto is a much deeper and more passionate work.

but it doesn't get much more beautiful than in the second movement of the G major concerto... wow.

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #5 on: April 02, 2005, 02:31:39 AM
could you also send me sheet music too please?  toomuchrice@hotmail.com

thanks

Offline joell12068

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #6 on: April 02, 2005, 03:55:52 AM
Check your PM's for links to the score.

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #7 on: April 02, 2005, 01:12:08 PM
awesome concerto, I have the sheet music. Haven't learned it, but it doesn't seem too difficult to me. Tricky parts are, probably, the cadenza in the first movement, and the repeated notes stuff in the third movement.

I mostly had trouble memorising the 2nd mvt. But then, i always have trouble memorising slow pieces. Also, i really didn't know whether to play 3/4 or 6/8 in the left hand. 3/4 just didn't feel right... but its writeen that wayyyyy :(

And also the crazy chromatic rising passage in the coda. That took me a while (can you imagine an hour playing that over and over again?)

Ah well... never did get a chance to play it... stupid competition. LOL

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #8 on: April 02, 2005, 02:50:08 PM
JoelL12068, can you also send me the sheet music? (PM me) I guess everyone's into the Ravel Piano Concerto these days. Thanks.  :)

Offline dbrainiak914

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #9 on: April 02, 2005, 04:47:15 PM
I'd also love a rec/sheets of this thing!
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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #10 on: April 02, 2005, 04:50:05 PM


I mostly had trouble memorising the 2nd mvt. But then, i always have trouble memorising slow pieces. Also, i really didn't know whether to play 3/4 or 6/8 in the left hand. 3/4 just didn't feel right... but its writeen that wayyyyy :(

And also the crazy chromatic rising passage in the coda. That took me a while (can you imagine an hour playing that over and over again?)

Ah well... never did get a chance to play it... stupid competition. LOL

Play it the way it was beamed. Ba-Duh   Duh-Ba    Duh-Duh

Hope that helps for some of the phrasing. Really weird.

The Piano Concerto in G Major isn't too difficult, and it's a great and beautiful work. Do not try to use both hands for the Left hand concerto! It's more difficult that way! (Doesn't that just show off Ravel's pure genius?)

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Re: Ravel concerto
Reply #11 on: April 04, 2005, 12:36:43 PM
Thanks Joel.  Thanks everyone.
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