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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classical music lovers, meet cool jazz. How about jazz fans listening to the likes of Maurice Ravel or Samuel Barber? How ...