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 ...

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 ...

When she commissioned him, Ravel planned to create an orchestral version of Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz’s piano work, Iberia, for Rubinstein’s company to dance to. Albéniz was up for it, but the ...

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 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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Performing in New York, Seong-Jin Cho presented a marathon survey of Ravel’s solo piano works and appeared in Prokofiev’s Second ...

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 ...

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 ...