Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major, II. Adagio assai (Touching Emotional Performance)

Gimnazija Kranj Great Christmas Concert 2014: Night in Paris. In a sold-out Gallus Hall (Cankarjev dom, Slovenia) Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra performed Ravel’s masterpiece: Piano Concerto in G major. During the recording of this essential classical piece, I had technical difficulties, so I was able to capture only the second movement of this amazing performance. This is the first time published footage of this amazing performance. Conductor: Nejc Bečan; Concert master: Nejc Avbelj; light design: Janez Kocjan; sound design: Matjaž Culiberg; masterig: Iztok Zupan; director: Primož Zevnik Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major was composed between 1929 and 1931. The concerto is in three movements and is heavily influenced by jazz, which Ravel had encountered on a concert tour of the United States in 1928. The concerto was deeply infused with jazz idioms and harmonies, which, at the time, were highly popular in Paris as well as the United States, where