Maurice Ravel: Bolero

It is a fantastic piece for playing-in new contrabassoon reeds - nobody can particularly hear the contrabassoon part and so the reeds can be as raucous as possible to begin with and by the time the piece is over, the reed may have turned into a nice playable reed.

It's an interesting piece to take part in and so far I've played in it twice. I wonder how many times I will play it in total...

I like minimalism, so this is quite trivial for me with regards repetitiveness.

It's a really nice piece...until you realize that it keeps going on and on and on. And on. Then some more. Then one final repeat.

But to me, it is so ingenious, repetition is the last thing I notice!