Watch Stephen Johnson's analysis of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under Pascal Rophe. The piano soloist is Roger Muraro. Ravel's Piano Concerto in G - ...

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Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G was always intended to be a frivolous work. In contrast to many of the concertos of his day, what Ravel was aiming to write was something light, fanciful and not inherently ...

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 ...

On opening night, the 8th annual San Francisco International Piano Festival revisited the city's past by re-creating an all-Maurice Ravel program that was performed at San Francisco's St. Francis ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. By the time the French composer Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) bought Le Belvédère, his home for the last 16 years of his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angela Hewitt’s set of Ravel’s piano music is a remarkable feat of the most concentrated imaginative delicacy‚ wit and style. Fresh from her success in Bach she shows how such prowess – namely a ...

How amenable of Ravel to compose the right amount of piano music to fill a 2CD set. Not a note of it could be by anybody else. French pianist Bertrand Chamayou ticks off most, if not all, of the ...