I originally liked piano works such as "Gaspard de la nuit" and "Le Tombeau de Couperin," but ever since I heard the piano ...

America has inspired composers from around the world. Antonín Dvořák drew on American musical traditions for his New World ...

The artist’s self-image is often defined by opposition. That opposition can take the form of censorship, or perhaps a rival master. Art enthusiasts may think of the rivalries between Ghiberti and ...

Australian Chamber Orchestra principal violinist Satu Vanska will use a rare outing with just piano and cello to perform a ...

Hello! This is Tategami from the "Drumelo" drum school.This time, I tried challenging the classic masterpiece, Maurice ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The charming, eclectic museum in the French composer’s house at Montfort-l’Amaury has been abruptly closed and its future is in doubt An eccentric little house called Le Belvédère – shaped like a ...