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Ravel channelled the Baroque milieu of François Couperin through a 20th-century lens in his six-movement piano suite. Jed Distler surveys a century of recordings Composed between 1914 and 1917, ...

A small, slender man, Maurice Ravel was never an imposing presence, but he certainly cut a striking figure: a famously natty dresser, he was always meticulously groomed and impeccably turned out. Once ...

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 ...

The artist’s self-image is often defined by opposition. That opposition can take the form of censorship, or perhaps a rival master. Art enthusiasts may think of the rivalries between Ghiberti and ...

From the classical archive, 22 October 1928: a review of a performance in London by the composer and pianist who ‘transcends his limitations’ London, Sunday Mr Gordon Bryan was fortunate in having ...

Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history I don’t know about you, but I love losing myself ...

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 ...

Composed about 1893, Sérénade grotesque was originally entitled just Sérénade in the autograph. Admitting the influence of Chabrier's Bourée fantasque , written two years earlier, Ravel would return ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...