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ALBUMPavane Pour Une Infante Défunte (Revisited) - SingleMaurice Ravel & François Myrand
Albums by Maurice Ravel
ALBUMRavel: Violin Sonata No. 2, Sonata for Violin and Cello & Piano TrioKlara Flieder, Christophe Pantillon & Massimo Giuseppe Bianchi
ALBUMWind Ensemble in OrchestraShigeo Genda & Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMAll These Lighted ThingsElim Chan & Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMPiano DancesAnna Vinnitskaya
ALBUMBax & Chung Piano Duo: Debussy and Ravel for TwoAlessio Bax & Lucille Chung
ALBUMWalking the DogJoseph Moog & Andreas Mader
ALBUMRavel: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1Ludovic Morlot & Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra
ALBUMStuder Rare Recital IIMichael Studer
ALBUMWalter Rinaldi: Debussy: Clair de Lune & Children’s Corner / Ravel: Pavane, Ma Mère L’ Oye & SonatineWalter Rinaldi
ALBUML'Heure bleue (Boulanger, Debussy, Finzi, Poulenc, Ravel, Waksman)Quatuor Zahir
Maurice Ravel's Popular Music Videos
Ravel: Tzigane (feat. Sir Simon Rattle, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berliner Philharmoniker & Maurice Ravel)
Sir Simon Rattle, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic & Maurice Ravel
Ravel: Ma mère l'Oye, M. 60: V. Le jardin féérique
Alexandre Tharaud & Bertrand Chamayou
Ravel: Deux mélodies hébraïques, M.A 22: I. Kaddisch (Transcr. for Cello and Orchestra by Richard Tognetti) [Institut du Monde Arabe]
Camille Thomas, Brussels Philharmonic & Mathieu Herzog
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (Live)
London Symphony Orchestra & Sir Simon Rattle
Ravel: 5 Mélodies populaires grecques, M. A 9: No. 1, Chanson de la mariée
Sabine Devieilhe & Alexandre Tharaud
Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61: II. Assez lent
Michel Dalberto
Ravel: Shéhérazade, M. 17: II. La flûte enchantée
Burcu Karadağ, Fatma Said & Malcolm Martineau
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major, M. 82 (Live at Versailles / 2018)
Yuja Wang, Vienna Philharmonic & Franz Welser-Möst
La Valse, M. 72 (Live from Tanzsaal an der Panke / b-sharp, Berlin / 2020)
Mao Fujita
La valse, M. 72
Khatia Buniatishvili
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Maurice Ravel Essentials
The French composer was a master of musical color and atmosphere.
Artist Biography
Stravinsky compared Ravel’s mind to that of a Swiss watchmaker. But behind its exquisite, super-refined surface, Ravel’s music can also convey strange dark passions and profound melancholy. He was born in Ciboure, France, near the Spanish border, in 1875, of half-Basque parentage—a fact of which he remained intensely proud. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, but succeeded only in annoying his teachers, leading to his expulsion in 1895. He was readmitted two years later, however, and his new teacher, Fauré, proved both understanding and inspiring. Along with his contemporary Debussy he formed an artistic group called Les Apaches (“The Hooligans”) who caused controversy, but his failure, after five attempts, to win the coveted Prix de Rome became a national scandal. Ravel remained emotionally guarded, and the nature of his sexuality remains a mystery. Though he composed slowly, Ravel produced a steady stream of masterpieces in several genres, especially opera (including the weirdly magical L’enfant et les sortilèges [1925]), chamber and orchestral music (notably two piano concertos, La Valse [1920] and the famous Boléro[1928]), songs, and solo piano pieces. His fondness for exotic, fragile, dreamlike atmospheres earned him the label “Impressionist,” though he strongly disliked it. In the 1930s, Ravel began to suffer from dementia, and his final years were a story of pitiful, lonely mental decline. He died in 1937.
Hometown
Ciboure, Basses-Pyrénées, France
Genre
Classical