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 ...

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 ...

Angela Hewitt’s set of Ravel’s piano music is a remarkable feat of the most concentrated imaginative delicacy‚ wit and style. Fresh from her success in Bach she shows how such prowess – namely a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay, co-written with ...

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 ...

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 ...