CLASSICAL MUSIC - MARTHA ARGERICH: RAVEL PIANO CONCERTO IN G

Martha Argerich, one of today’s greatest concert pianists, renowned for the remarkable vitality and power of her performances, is the featured soloist in this live recording of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G which comes from the Alte Oper Frankfurt. The Orchestre National de France is conducted by Charles Dutoit, a noted interpreter of music from the twentieth-century repertoire.

Together with his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, the Piano Concerto in G was among Ravel’s last major compositional efforts. Both pieces were written in 1931. Ravel died in 1937, after a long illness. Exuberant and cosmopolitan, the Piano Concerto in G is hectic and playful in its outer movements, elegiac in the central slow movement, and contains the most beautiful tune the composer ever wrote.