Hieronymites Monastery, Lisbon. Maestro Pierre Boulez leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Maurice Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin. Completed in 1917, the six-movement suite was originally written for piano. Each movement of this emotional composition is dedicated to a friend the composer lost in the First World War. In 1919, Ravel orchestrated four of the work's six original movements, omitting the second (Fugue) and sixth (Toccata). These orchestral version premiered in Paris on February 28, 1920. The current broadcast was recorded at the Mosteiro dos Jerónimos in Lisbon, Portugal as part of the Europakonzert 2003.