And, at this time, Ravel was probably France’s most famous living composer, building a career that would mark him one of the country’s most famous composers to ever live. What is the story behind ...

Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history I don’t know about you, but I love losing myself ...

MAURICE RAVEL’S “Boléro” is a strange piece of music, consisting of two melodies repeated nine times each. Originally the score to a ballet, it is catchy and keeps running in the listener’s head long ...

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay, co-written with ...

Some paintings are meant to be appreciated in silence – but not this one. It is called Unravelling Boléro, by Canadian artist Anne Adams, and is a bar-by-bar representation of the popular classical ...

Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense of the word, no development, and hardly any modulation”. And to the Swiss composer Arthur ...

Dans le cadre du Festival international des arts de Bordeaux Métropole, les musiciens de l’Orchestre national Bordeaux ...