Journalist Simon Heffer presents a chronological profile of the life and music of Maurice Ravel, including his early songs as well as chamber and piano pieces. Show more In the first of two ...

Maurice Ravel is one of the greatest French composers who ever lived. Along with Claude Debussy, he single-handedly changed the direction of French music in the early 20th century, leading to the ...

Under the lens today are some of Ravel’s more notable shorter pieces performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under the baton of maestro Paavo Järvi. The performances of the orchestra are crisp ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. By the time the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) bought Le Belvédère, his home for the last 16 years ...

The most exquisite of all French composers; Maurice Ravel was a sensualist-perfectionist without parallel. Why is it that Ravel’s pieces often sound so different from one another? Ravel was one of the ...

MAURICE RAVEL, COMPOSER OF THE “BOLERO” AND OTHER WORLD-FAMOUS MUSICAL WORKS DIED HERE TODAY. THE RENOWNED JEWISH COMPOSER WAS 62. HIS DEATH OCCURRED AFTER A TWO-WEEK ILLNESS WHICH FOLLOWED A ...

With Elim Chan at Blossom Music Center, the program paired Maurice Ravel’s Shéhérazade with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in performances redolent of perfume and sonic splendor.

At 91 pounds, French composer Maurice Ravel was not exactly prime soldier material. And yet when Germany declared war on France in Aug. 1914, he felt compelled to enlist. As Tom Allen, host of CBC ...

Most have heard the famous opening of Mussorgsky/Ravel’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” with its regal brass chorale used in films, TV, video games, and even as WWE entrance music. This year ...

A calm, charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevates "Boléro," Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel.