An informative and entertaining audio-visual concert at the Waldbühne in Berlin (1998) with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim and hosted by Paul Roberts who analyzes the composer Maurice Ravel's most famous works. Maurice Ravel - Boléro 3:33 The Rhythm 6:52 The Theme 9:02 The Variant 16:18 The Orchestration 21:13 The Modulation Like his contemporaries Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel polarized Paris society during his lifetime and after with his progressive aesthetic and musical ideas. Indeed, the importance of many of his works was not recognized, which was in part due to the misinterpretation of his concepts of breaking and parodying convention. In Bólero, Ravel's most famous work, this attitude is reflected in the musical concept: It marked a break from the formal principles of classical music by employing a very reduced musical language and novel instrumentation. The piece is characterized primarily by the use of repetitive rhythmic patterns and gradual motivic development realized by the use of new instrumental entries with each repetition. Yet despite this apparent abstraction of form, the music radiates incredible humanity and poetry. Watch more episodes of the series "Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music": goo.gl/KBV6cR Subscribe to EuroArts: goo.gl/jrui3M

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