LENOX, Mass. — A speed-reading teacher once said that if you spend a week reading one book a day by the same writer, you won’t get all the details, but you’ll know what interests the author, and the ...

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 ...

Even including all the one-off miniatures that Ravel composed, especially early in his career, all his piano music fits comfortably on to a pair of CDs, and Steven Osborne's survey of it is an ...

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 ...

Pianist Steven Osborne presents brilliant readings of some of the most important piano music of the early 20th Century. A leading exponent of Ravel, Osborne is best placed to play these shimmering ...

Pianist Cho Seong-jin is set to hold a concert on French composer Maurice Ravel’s (1875-1937) complete piano works at the Aram Nuri Arts Center in Goyang, Gyeonggi, on July 1. The Goyang concert is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...