Artist
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel is a composer artist from French. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · French · Best composer albums
- 19
- Releases
- 1960–2003
- Active years
Artist
Maurice Ravel is a composer artist from French. 19 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · French · Best composer albums
Most popular
Boléro / La Valse / Rapsodie espagnole / Pavane pour une infante défunte
2003
Chansons / Histoires naturelles / Chansons madécasses
2003
Piano Works
1998
Bolero (Boston Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor Seiji Ozawa)
1987
String Quartets
1986
Bolero / Le tombeau de Couperin / Daphnis et Chloé / Alborada del Gracioso (Philharmonisches Orchester von Mexiko, feat. conductor: Fernando Lozano)
1986
Faure: Requiem / Ravel: Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte (Philharmonia Orchestra feat. conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini)
1986
Boléro / Rapsodie espagnole / Ma mère l'oye / Pavane (London Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Claudio Abbado)
1986
Piano Trios
1985
Gaspard de la nuit and other piano pieces (feat. piano: Vladimir Ashkenazy)
1985
Thibaudet Ravel Recital
1985
Piano Works Vol. 2
1984
Piano Works Vol.1 (feat. piano: Vlado Perlemuter)
1983
Boléro / La Valse / Pavane pour une infante défunte / Daphnis et Chloé: Suite No.2 (Orchestre de Paris feat. conductor: Daniel Barenboim)
1982
Daphnis et Chloé (London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus conducted by André Previn)
1982
Boléro / Rapsodie espagnole / La valse / Alborada del gracioso (Orchestre symphonique de Montréal feat. condutor: Charles Dutoit)
1981
Gaspard de la Nuit / Sonatine / Valses nobles et sentimentales
1975
Prokofiev: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3 C-Dur / Ravel: Klavierkonzert G-Dur
1967
L'heure espagnole (BBC Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Bruno Maderna)
1960
Maurice Ravel, from his baptismal name Joseph Maurice Ravel, is a French composer born in Ciboure on March 7, 1875 and died in Paris on December 28, 1937. Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects. Along with Claude Debussy, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music. Much of his piano music, chamber music, vocal music and orchestral music has entered the standard concert repertoire. Ravel's piano compositions, such as Jeux d'eau, Miroirs, Le tombeau de Couperin and Gaspard de la nuit, demand considerable virtuosity from the performer, and his orchestral music, including Daphnis et Chloé and his arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, use a variety of sound and instrumentation. Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro (1928), which he considered trivial and once described as "a piece for orchestra without music". According to SACEM, Ravel's estate had earned more royalties than that of any other French composer (until, that is, January 1, 2008 when, according to the governing copyright laws of many countries around the world,…