In the year of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, Moroccan pianist Aïda Lahlou releases her début album, Mirrors and Echoes, a vivid and thoughtful reimagining of Ravel’s five-movement piano cycle, Miroirs, which places Ravel’s work in

The ARTE Concert production “Ravel in a Thousand Sparkles” is a musical and visual tribute to Maurice Ravel, created to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth in 2025. The production offers an innovative blend of music, visuals, and storytelling.

Thanks to the precision of his compositional technique, the work of Maurice Ravel has been compared to that of “a Swiss watchmaker.” The descriptor is even more accurate than it seems at first glance. Maurice’s father, Pierre-Joseph, was indeed Swiss,

In a previous article, Maurice Ravel as a Young Man, we followed the story of Ravel’s early life and first forays into the world of professional composition. We left off at the turn of the century, with twenty-five-year-old Ravel poised

It’s almost ten years since French pianist Bertrand Chamayou recorded Ravel’s complete piano works, and now, in this the 150th anniversary year of Ravel’s birth, he has released an album which he calls “a modest contribution” to the “anniversary celebrations

Maurice Ravel was born on the 7th of March 1875, at Ciboure, a little fishing village at the base of the Pyrénées near the French-Spanish border. Members of Ravel’s family on the paternal side had emigrated to Switzerland, and Stravinsky’s

Maurice Ravel only wrote two piano concertos, and they are so individual in sound that they stand for a whole lot more. The first was the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, M. 82, written on commission for one-handed pianist

Ravel at 150: A Legacy of Innovation 150 years ago, on 7 March 1875, the small village of Ciboure in the Basque region of France saw the birth of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Son of a Swiss engineer and a Basque