This year, we mark the 100th anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s celebrated 1922 orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures” for solo piano. For a century now, audiences have sprinted to ...

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Ravel was a master of orchestration, as is borne out by his ever popular arrangement of Mussorgsky’s famous set of piano pieces, Pictures at an Exhibition. But as his Pavane pour une infante défunte ...

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay ...

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.