Ravel: Complete works for solo piano (Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; London, two CDs). Maurice Ravel`s piano music and Jean-Yves Thibaudet would appear to be a match made in musical heaven. His teacher ...

Apparently 2025’s Maurice Ravel 150th-anniversary festivities are starting well in advance, with François-Xavier Poizat at the front of the line. He offers a six-CD set that features the composer’s ...

Osborne writes that Ravel “draws sounds from the piano that not even Liszt dreamt of, and he is endlessly inventive in the technical resources he deploys”. One of the many triumphs of these ...

How amenable of Ravel to compose the right amount of piano music to fill a 2CD set. Not a note of it could be by anybody else. French pianist Bertrand Chamayou ticks off most, if not all, of the ...

And, at this time, Ravel was probably France’s most famous living composer, building a career that would mark him one of the country’s most famous composers to ever live. What is the story behind ...

Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

The instinctive artistic collaboration between Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien that has been so evident in their recordings of the Beethoven violin sonatas and another one of Szymanowski, is ...

Composed in 1928, Ravel's rhythmic piece will be forever synonymous with ice-skating stars Torvill and Dean. On Valentine’s Day in 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean became the highest-scoring ...

Ravel: Menuet Antique; Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte; Sonatine; Valses Nobles Et Sentimentales; Le Tombeau De Couperin; Serenade Grotesque; Jeux D'Eaux; Gaspard De La Nuit; Menuet Sur Le Nom D'Haydn ...