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For today’s pre-penultimate #UriPosteJukeBox post, some thoughtful words from Tom, which — along with his performance today — have touched me immensely, particularly the last paragraph: “This is the slow movement of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major, his last major work, completed in 1931. While the outer movements are filled with joy and brilliance, here Ravel spins one of the most perfect, seemingly infinite melodies ever written. Though it’s music which seems to have been plucked fully-formed from paradise, its apparent spontaneity actually caused Ravel great pain (“That flowing phrase! How I worked over it bar by bar! It nearly killed me!”) Though the piano is the first to sing out the melody, the movement contains a succession of extraordinary orchestral solos, mainly for the wind players, with the biggest jewel being reserved for the cor anglais. In transcribing the orchestral parts for Elena to play alone, we’ve managed to keep all the melodies and countermelodies intact, though of course there’s no substitute for Ravel’s incomparable orchestrations. I miss live performance more than I can say, and was keen to get my mind into an ‘on-stage’ zone for this. Sure enough, as soon we sat down to record, I felt a huge swell of adrenaline, and all the good and bad things that come with it - the quickening heartbeat, that slight trembling of the fingers (and sometimes the mind!), an emotional intensity, that heightened desire to communicate as if it might be the last time…”