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The other piano concerto was completed a year later.

Its lighter tone follows the models of Mozart and Saint-Saëns, and also makes use of jazz-like themes.

Ravel dedicated the work to his favorite pianist, Marguerite Long, who played it and popularized it across Europe in over twenty cities, and they recorded it together in 1932.

EMI later reissued the 1932 recording on LP and CD.

Although Ravel was listed as the conductor on the original 78-rpm discs, it is possible he merely supervised the recording.