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 (96)
- A la manière de Chabrier (83)
- Alborada del gracioso (orchestral version) (95)
- Berceuse sur le nom de Fauré (53)
- Boléro (450)
- Cinq mélodies populaires grecques (72)
- Daphnis et Chloé (62)
- Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 (174)
- Deux mélodies hébraïques: Kaddisch (47)
- Don Quichotte à Dulcinée (69)
- Gaspard de la Nuit (287)
- Introduction & Allegro (85)
- Jeux d'eau (287)
- La Valse (392)
- Le Tombeau de Couperin (289)
- Ma Mère l'Oye (259)
- Menuet antique (150)
- Menuet sur le nom de Haydn (122)
- Miroirs, M.43 (183)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 1 Noctuelles (186)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 2 Oiseaux tristes (202)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 3 Une barque sur l'océan (203)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 4 Alborada del gracioso (272)
- Miroirs, M.43: No. 5 La Vallee des Cloches (210)
- Pavane pour une infante défunte (710)
- Piano Concerto in D major (for the left hand) (139)
- Piano Concerto in G major (230)
- Piano Trio in A minor (126)
- Prélude in A minor, M.65 (126)
- Rapsodie Espagnole (238)
- Sérénade grotesque (55)
- Shéhérazade (101)
- Sonata for Violin & Cello (54)
- Sonatine (212)
- String Quartet in F major (149)
- Tzigane (317)
- Valses nobles et sentimentales (317)
- Violin Sonata in A minor 'Sonate posthume' (49)
- Violin Sonata in G major (141)
- Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera (338)
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New. Mujer Fatal
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Special offer. French Orchestral Favourites
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st May 2026
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Camino | Federico Mompou, Maurice Ravel, Manuel de Falla, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc
Sean Shibe (guitar)
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th August 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Ravel: Piano Concertos & Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain
Steven Osborne (piano) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ludovic Morlot
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 22nd July 2017, Recording of the Week
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