A teapot dancing the foxtrot with a Chinese cup, an armchair courting a Louis XV wing chair, objects and animals joining forces against an unruly child: such is the marvellous world that Maurice Ravel ...
Pierre Monteux brought not only clarity and proportion to the music of Maurice Ravel but also tenderness and excitement, making this conflation of two LPs from the early 1960s a mid-price reissue that ...
The sound of familiar orchestral music played on two pianos can have a startling effect: hearing the chromatic flute opening of Debussy's Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune characterised only by the ...
Belgian conductor Jos van Immerseel's Anima Eterna Brugge orchestra brings a period instruments approach to Ravel. Serge Koussevitzky, who commissioned the composer's 1922 orchestration of ...