Spanish National Orchestra, conducted by David Afkham, with guitarist Rafael Aguirre perform Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez ...

The most exquisite of all French composers; Maurice Ravel was a sensualist-perfectionist without parallel. Why is it that Ravel’s pieces often sound so different from one another? Ravel was one of the ...

From the classical archive, 22 October 1928: a review of a performance in London by the composer and pianist who ‘transcends his limitations’ London, Sunday Mr Gordon Bryan was fortunate in having ...

It gave him a cut that needed several stitches, but it also left Ravel feeling shaken. Friends soon noticed changes — spelling mistakes in letters and an inability to write down music. For five years ...

Perfection, c’est travail, said Maurice Ravel. Pride in his own small and perfectly formed achievement, and a conviction that perfection is a supreme quality of art, lie behind those three words. But ...

I sunk my teeth into Olivia Rodrigo’s new single “Vampire” this weekend to distract myself from the Supreme Court’s latest decisions. Many artworks spend a lifetime unseen, sitting in storage ...