It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison ...

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, born on 7 March 1875, ARTE invites you to explore the fascinating and daring world of this French composer of many inspirations. From the ...

Ravel even declined to give any advice to the pianist Vlado Perlemuter when he performed the piece for the composer. However, there is a tempo-related implication in the comment he made to a young ...

This week, Donald Macleod drops five pins on the map of Ravel's life story, discovering the places that were important to him and what they reveal about his character.

Maurice Ravel and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Morita said she carefully curated a program with an overarching theme of homage. The recital began with selections from Mexican composer Ponce, known for his ...

The Kingston Symphony will conclude its 2024-2025 season with a program dedicated to the music of Maurice Ravel. The Ravel ...

On March 30, the winner of the Krannert Center Debut Artist competition, pianist Chin-Hsuan (Sharon) Cheng, gave an appealing recital which included music from her native Taiwan and compositions by ...

Maurice Ravel has written 1 shows including Béjart: Ballet of the Twentieth Century (Composer).

Ravel's musical description of the malevolent gnome Scarbo was also spurred by the wish "to write something more difficult than Islamey " (oriental fantasy for piano by Balakirev). The composer ...