What a difference an artistic appointment can make. An orchestra’s music director makes many choices during the course of a season, but certainly one of Ludovic Morlot’s best decisions for 2015-16 was ...

Listeners of National Public Radio can hear Christopher O'Riley's informed commentaries on classical music and his classical compositions of Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Elliott Smith on his weekly radio ...

Ravel first performed "Bolero" at the Paris Opera in 1928 and it was an immediate sensation. He died 10 years later and his heirs earned millions of dollars until the copyright ran out in 2016 and the ...

A French court has ruled that Bolero, one of the world's best-known classical music pieces, was written by Maurice Ravel alone, a financial blow both to his descendants and those of the man they said ...

It’s no coincidence that pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s recital programs often reflect his twin heritage. “People think of me as French,” says Thibaudet, a native of Lyon, France. “But I also have a ...

Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

This soulful and dynamic new release provides a wonderful twofer. The main draw is the chance to hear Ravel's familiar music for violin and piano - the two sonatas, "Tzigane" and the lovely "Berceuse ...

The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. The piece is so popular at classical ...

Holed up in Los Angeles, Schoenberg never wrote a Hollywood film score. Unlike his pupil and fellow exile Hanns Eisler, whose music for Fritz Lang’s 1944 film Hangmen Also Die (with a screenplay by ...

The two piano concertos of Ravel are such an obviously perfect fit for pianist Yuja Wang that it seems remarkable it’s taken this long for her to get around to recording them. The music’s brisk, ...