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 ...

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 ...

After the release of their highly acclaimed first Ravel album together, fast-rising Mexican-American conductor Robert Treviño and the Basque National Orchestra are set to release a follow-up - "Ravel ...

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 ...

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Music Director Stéphane Denève wished St. Louis a belated Happy New Year on Friday, January 17 – it was his first time to strike up the band this year – at the Touhill ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The New York Philharmonic and its next music director gave “Sémiramis” its first public hearing, alongside other Ravel pieces and works ...

What a difference an artistic appointment can make. An orchestra’s music director makes many choices during the course of a season, but certainly one of Ludovic Morlot’s best decisions for 2015-16 was ...

On this week’s episode, we’re making the most of the last days of summer! We’ll be headed to sunny Spain, with music by Debussy, de Falla, and Ravel. Part of a larger set of orchestral pieces called ...

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 ...

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 ...