Accompaniment: The Vardi Trio: Emanuel Vardi, violin; Edwin Hymovitz, piano - Written in 1914, Maurice Ravel's piano trio was premiered on 28 January 1915 in Paris, with distinguished pianist Alfredo...
Ravel brought to the art of the song that distinctive fusion of classicism and the modern spirit that characterized all his musical works. This superb collection includes many of his most admired and...
The melodies of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) span the entire chronology of his creative output, from his earliest song BALLADE DE LA REINE MORTE D'AIMER (1893), written during his student years at the Pa...
Maurice Ravel was only 24 when his piano solo 'Pavane Pour une Infante Defunte,' which translated means Pavane for a dead princess, became the rage of the drawing rooms and salons of Paris in 1899, bu...
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was in addition to Claude Debussy, the most important composer of French impressionism. The term impressionism can be translated as 'artistic impression', first used in paint...
Il Bolero composto da Maurice Ravel nel 1929 è per eccellenza la musica per balletto divenuta celebre anche come pezzo concertistico. E' sicuramente il bolero più noto mai composto, nonché l'opera più...
I progetti di Ravel per un concerto per pianoforte e orchestra risalgono al 1906, ma solo all'inizio del 1929 il compositore si mise al lavoro seriamente. In seguito dichiarò di averlo scritto "nello...