Maurice Ravel talked about his pieces of music as if they were his children. While he was working on his Piano Concerto in G Major, he wrote to a friend, "(I am) in the middle of my pregnancy with the ...

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich’s Suite for Variety Orchestra.

Ravel's unique work for a war veteran gave the piano repertoire a dark and sombre masterpiece. Losing his right arm in World War I resulted in the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein making an ...

You could arguably call it a facelift. After Charlotte Symphony's powerful performance of Mahler's somber, morbid, mercurial, epic, and sometimes phantasmagorical Ninth Symphony, almost everything ...

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 ...

Maurice Ravel was obsessed with America, and Gwendolyn Mok is obsessed with Maurice Ravel. The head of San Jose State University’s keyboard division is a Ravel specialist, a historian of his music, a ...

In 1914, the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein was shot in the elbow and his right arm amputated. Wittgenstein resolved to continue his career as a performer and asked some of the most famous ...

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Whoever is hiring guest soloists for the Cleveland Orchestra these days deserves a raise. It’s only the fifth week of the season, but already patrons have heard no fewer than three ...

Concert pianist Nicholas McCarthy remembers the moment he decided the piano was for him. He was watching his friend play Beethoven’s “Waldstein Sonata”. “This is it,” he said. “This is what I want to ...