It’s no coincidence that pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s recital programs often reflect his twin heritage. “People think of me as French,” says Thibaudet, a native of Lyon, France. “But I also have a ...

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The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...

Perfection, c’est travail, said Maurice Ravel. Pride in his own small and perfectly formed achievement, and a conviction that perfection is a supreme quality of art, lie behind those three words. But ...

Ravel was like a melting pot of different influences and styles. He was one of the first classical composers to be influenced by blues and jazz, or at least admitting it. Maurice Ravel is not only one ...

Eight years ago, at a Philharmonic-Symphony concert in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, Arturo Toscanini introduced to the U. S. an unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was ...

This soulful and dynamic new release provides a wonderful twofer. The main draw is the chance to hear Ravel's familiar music for violin and piano - the two sonatas, "Tzigane" and the lovely "Berceuse ...

LENOX — Towards the end of his opera “L’enfant et les sortilèges,” when the title child is wounded in a suddenly dark and mysterious garden, Maurice Ravel slips us a morsel under the table. It’s a few ...