To ease us into the day

    If you have three of four minutes to spare, listen to this lovely rendition of The Fairy Garden* from Ravel's Mother Goose Suite played (as an unorthodox encore during a Proms concert) by Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the conductor Philippe Jordan.

    If you have longer, click here for the whole concert and go straight to M. Thibaudet's sparkling performance of Ravel's G major piano concerto beginning at the 20.04 mark.

 

*The resolution to the story of Sleeping Beauty, as you'll see here.

Comments

[Toffeeapple]

I am not sure if it is my laptop or not, but the first two links go directly to the full concert.

[Naomi]

Thibaudet is an incredible pianist, so thank you so much for these links!

[Freda]

Thank you! Sparkling indeed. I shall save the whole concert for later this evening - perfect for the end of a hot day.

[Cornflower]

That's strange!
I've checked just now on my computer and my husband's and everything seems to be working fine: clicking 'play' on the embedded video should give you only The Fairy Garden duet, while the link at 'here' in the second paragraph should take you to the full concert and then it's easy to fast forward to the start of the concerto at 20.04.
All seems to be as it should be, but how odd that something's gone awry at your end, Toffeeapple.

[Cornflower]

You're welcome, Naomi - he's great, isn't he!

[Cornflower]

Ah, the heat of the west, Freda! Over here in the east we hovered around the 13 degree mark!

[Toffeeapple]

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Thank you for that, I shall investigate.  I have been
having a few problems with laptop and router recently, perhaps they don’t like
this incessant rain that we had yesterday.

 

Toni.

 

[Fran H-B]

Delightful, a treasure for Saturday morning, and the pleasure of the whole concert to come later tonight. Thank you