Ravel once said that its title is meaningless ... Debussy's suite Pour le piano was premiered by Ricardo Viñes at the Societé Nationale. This work appeared after a decade-long hiatus during ...

Ravel made a reference to the episode in a letter ... have been influenced by Malayan pantun poetry (also the case of the Piano Trio). In Western literature this form was made famous through ...

Angela Hewitt’s set of Ravel’s piano music is a remarkable feat of the most concentrated imaginative delicacy‚ wit and style. Fresh from her success in Bach she shows how such prowess – namely a ...

Brahms Piano Quartets, Ravel’s complete piano works, Adès’s orchestral suites, Bach’s Mass in B Minor and piano works from ...

The star pianist Yuja Wang, the Philharmonic’s artist in residence this season, was supposed to join the orchestra for both of Ravel’s piano concertos, but dropped out because of a health issue.

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Ravel’s birth ... For those unfamiliar with classical piano music, Morita offered simple advice: “Keep an open mind and try to appreciate each ...

Cho made a weaker impression in the smaller genre studies that fill out Ravel’s piano output. The mercurial variations on waltz rhythm in “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales” needed more ironic ...

Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet has performed with the world's most renowned orchestras on grand stages. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about his set at the Tiny Desk.