www.euronews.com Stefano Bollani is a popular Italian jazz pianist who also plays classical music. In Rome he performed Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, conducted by British classical conductor Daniel Harding. Stefano Bollani explained how he felt about playing the piece: "With the exception of the 2nd movement, the piece is very energetic, it's full of accents and small details - which is what, I think, Ravel thought was 'jazz'. Not so much the improvisation aspect, but rather all these irregular accents which sound like an American big band. And it's not by chance that this concert was written after he'd been to America and had been able to hear jazz for real." Bollani provided further insights when he spoke to euronews: "Ravel was called 'the Swiss clockmaker' by his 'friend' Stravinsky, because he was extremely good at working each tiny detail whilst having quite a detached attitude. Of course you should not perform it in a 'cold' way, but you can add a kind of 'ice coating' to it, which is appropriate to Ravel, and I think he would have liked. He's often considered a Romantic composer, but in my opinion that 'sugary ingredient' is absent in Ravel's music." So how does a world-acclaimed conductor such as Daniel Harding feel about a jazz musician like Bollani interpreting a classical piece? He was positive about it: "What I really like is that there's a completely unpretentious thing about the way he plays it. He loves the music, he has a great feeling for the kind ...
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