Ravel's

The waltz is a dance form we generally associate with peoples east of the Rhine but it reached its ultimate incarnation in Ravel's "La Valse," composed in 1919-20.

Howard Kissel: Ravel et al. at the Philharmonic Howard Kissel 2011

It has often been seen as Ravel's comment on the seemingly civilized world that descended into mayhem and chaos in World War I.

Howard Kissel: Ravel et al. at the Philharmonic Howard Kissel 2011

Mark Baldwin's Seven For A Secret Never To Be Told re-imagines the world of childhood evoked in Ravel's opera L'enfant Et Les Sortilèges: his choreography letting loose the playful instincts of his dancers, and Michael Hull's designs evoking the imaginative world of small children.

This week's new theatre and dance 2011

Saint-Saëns' wistful and emotional Sonata No 1 and Ravel's bluesy, ironic sonata have a whipped, airy quality.

French Impressions: Joshua Bell and Jeremy Denk – review 2012

For the rest of us musical mortals, what I think you'll find so affecting about his account of facing up to the challenges of Ravel's music is its honesty about how Gaspard pushed him to his limits – and beyond.

Pianistic Everests – what are yours? 2011

Pianist Steven Osborne, as you'll read today, has been finding that Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit lives up to its reputation as one of the big beasts of the piano repertoire, demanding years of practice, stamina, frustration, lateral thinking, and mind- and finger-bending solutions to tame its technical and musical problems.

Pianistic Everests – what are yours? 2011

The section closes with a grand défilé to Ravel's Boléro "Who doesn't remember this lovely melody by Schubert?" one lipsticked siren rather wildly demands, and you begin to wonder where Platel and van Laecke can take the piece from here.

Gardenia – review 2011

The section closes with a grand défilé to Ravel's Boléro "Who doesn't remember this lovely melody by Schubert?" one lipsticked siren rather wildly demands, and you begin to wonder where Platel and van Laecke can take the piece from here.

Gardenia – review 2011

The Mozart was followed by Maurice Ravel's Quartet in F-- a great shimmering hallucination of a work, full of elusive colors and explosions of savagery, and the Arcanto gave it a clear-eyed reading that revealed details often missed by other quartets.

Music review of the Arcanto Quartet at the Library of Congress Post 2010

It's a work for 16 members of the corps de ballet, who float on and over and through Ravel's waterfall of a score.

Margaret Fuhrer: Review: New York City Ballet, Beginning with Balanchine Margaret Fuhrer 2012