Adagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel
#listeneveryday 5 Mar 2021 The final post in this current run of #listeneveryday is of one of my personal favourites, Ravel's Piano Concerto in G major. Its first performance was given by Marguerite Long with Ravel conducting, in Paris in 1932, and it quickly became popular, partly thanks to a European tour by Ravel and Long who performed it in sixteen cities. It was one of Ravel's last compositions (he died from a neurological condition in 1937, at the age