Ravel/ Orchestre National De Lille/ Bloch - Valse & Rapsodie Espagnole AEC Video The technical competence required for

The technical competence required for each track is unique

and features his versions of many of the fine melodies of the times such as "The Warsaw Concerto (The World Outside)"

"Basie Jazz"

were one of the most popular and successful groups of the 1960s on both sides of the Atlantic

The magnificent pianos on this recording - a Christoph Kern fortepiano after Conrad Graf (Vienna

Ravel/ Orchestre National De Lille/ Bloch - Valse & Rapsodie Espagnole AEC Video The technical competence required forAlexandre Bloch juxtaposes two French composers on this release. First of all, Maurice Ravel, with the Rapsodie espagnole, his first major work for orchestra alone, written at the age of thirty two, and La Valse, premiered thirteen years later and which he himself described as a 'fantastical and fatal whirlwind.' And then Benjamin Attahir, born in Toulouse in 1989, one of the most gifted and prominent composers of the new generation. Commissioned by