Maurice Ravel
Born: 7th March 1875, Ciboure, France
Died: 28th December 1937, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity and incorporating elements of modernism, baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz.
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Further Reading: Ravel
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French orchestral favourites from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London
1st May 2026
A beautifully chosen and vividly performed collection of popular French pieces including Dukas's L'Apprenti sorcier, Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre, suites from Bizet's Carmen, and Wilson's own orchestral transcription of Debussy's Clair de lune.
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In Spain (and elsewhere) with the RLPO
31st Oct 2025
The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic present two contrasting albums - Spain viewed through rose-tinted French glasses, and some rarely-heard masterpieces of pastoral English Romanticism.
Popular Genres: Ravel
Popular Works: Ravel
- A la manière de Borodine (102)
- A la manière de Chabrier (89)
- Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version) (97)
- Berceuse sur le nom de Fauré (57)
- Boléro (488)
- Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (75)
- Daphnis et Chloé (62)
- Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 (187)
- Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (69)
- Gaspard de la Nuit (306)
- Introduction & Allegro (90)
- Jeux d'eau (304)
- La Valse (417)
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (311)
- Ma Mère l'Oye (283)
- Menuet antique (166)
- Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (133)
- Miroirs, M.43 (198)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 1 Noctuelles (201)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 2 Oiseaux tristes (217)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 3 Une barque sur l'océan (218)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 4 Alborada del gracioso (289)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 5 La Vallee des Cloches (226)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (748)
- Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand) (148)
- Piano Concerto in G major (247)
- Piano Trio in A minor (132)
- Prélude in A minor, M.65 (136)
- Rapsodie Espagnole (265)
- Sérénade grotesque (58)
- Shéhérazade (108)
- Sonata for Violin & Cello (57)
- Sonatine (228)
- String Quartet in F major (157)
- Trois chansons madécasses (48)
- Tzigane (336)
- Valses nobles et sentimentales (341)
- Violin Sonata in A minor 'Sonate posthume' (50)
- Violin Sonata in G major (147)
- Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera (362)
Recent Best Sellers: Ravel
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New. Mujer Fatal
Aigul Akhmetshina (mezzo), Antonio Pappano (piano)
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st August 2026
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New. Mémoire
Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
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Escales | French Orchestral Works
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Orchestral Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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French Orchestral Favourites
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st May 2026
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New Releases: Ravel
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New. Uyaras - The Enchanted Voice
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Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
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New. 55
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque (piano)
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New. Ravel Transcriptions
François-Xavier Poizat (piano)
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Future Releases: Ravel
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Coming soon. Miguel Llobet: Canciones Populares Catalanas
Koki Fujimoto (guitar)
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Coming soon. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé & Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Rafael Payare
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Coming soon. The Complete Recordings on Warner Classics
Daniel Adni (piano)
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Coming soon. Hope in Shadow
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
CD: Original price $16.25 Reduced $14.95
