Composer of the Week - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Donald Macleod explores the music Ravel wrote in connection with the people around him
Composer of the Week - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Composers
Serenade grotesque; A la maniere de Borodine, Chabrier; Berceuse for Faure; Trois Poemes de Stephane Mallarme; Sonata for violin and piano; Don Quichotte a Dulcinee.
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Composer of the Week - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Father: Industry and Craftsmanship
Ravel's fascination with things mechanical began in the workshop of his father, an engineer and inventor. Entre cloches; L'heure espagnole (excerpt); Gaspard de la nuit; Bolero.
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Composer of the Week - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Mother: Spain and Visions of Childhood
Donald Macleod surveys the music Ravel wrote in connection with the people around him, beginning with pieces associated with the composer's mother and his Basque heritage.
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Composer of the Week - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Patrons and Slaves
Donald Macleod traces Ravel's relationships with those who commissioned him. Aoua (Chansons Madecasses); Daphnis et Chloe (excerpts); La valse; Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.
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Composer of the Week - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) - Poets
Donald Macleod explores the importance for Ravel of the poets he read, and those he knew, in fin-de-siecle Montmartre. Sainte; Sur l'herbe; Miroirs; Histoires naturelles.
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