Maurice Ravel - Bolero

This was the music that Torvill and Dean skated to at the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics when the pair won Gold.

Boléro is a one-movement orchestral piece by the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875–1937). Originally composed as a ballet commissioned by Russian actress and dancer Ida Rubinstein, the piece, which premiered in 1928, is Ravel's most famous musical composition.[1]

Before Boléro, Ravel had composed large-scale ballets (such as Daphnis et Chloé, composed for the Ballets Russes 1909–1912), suites for the ballet (e.g. the second orchestral version of Ma mère l'oye, 1912), and one-movement dance pieces (for example La valse, 1906–1920). Apart from these compositions intended for a staged dance performance, Ravel had demonstrated an interest in composing re-styled dances, from his earliest successes—the 1895 Menuet and the 1899 Pavane—to his more mature works such as Le Tombeau de Couperin, which takes the format of a dance suite.

Boléro epitomizes Ravel's preoccupation with restyling and reinventing dance movements. It was also one of the last pieces he composed before illness forced him into retirement. The two piano concertos and the song cycle Don Quichotte à Dulcinée were the only completed compositions that followed Boléro. Words by Wikipedia

Performers Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
Publisher Info. New York: Columbia Masterworks, 1963. MS 6478.
Reissue Sony Classics, n.d.
Public Domain - Non-PD US
Misc. Notes Recorded Jan-Feb, 1963 at Town Hall, NYC

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[jamess]

WOW!! Ormandy recorded Bolero 4 times - this is the 3rd one, February 24th 1968 Town Hall, Philadelphia - this one is THE best one - sexy, lots of swagger, very sensual - very, very South Philly.