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 ...

One of the greatest orchestrators in musical history, he put it to use in music ranging from delicate impressionistic pictures to fantasies portraying children and animals. The First World War had a ...

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Although Modest Mussorgsky originally wrote Pictures At An Exhibition for the piano, it was Maurice Ravel, some 48 years later in 1922, who produced the orchestral canvas that we know and love today.

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

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 ...

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.