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String Quartets by Debussy and Ravel from the Jerusalem Quartet
18th May 2018by James Longstaffe
The Jerusalem Quartet offer masterfully controlled and impressively dynamic accounts of the String Quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
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Ravel from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
27th Apr 2018by Katherine Cooper
The conductor and his period-instrument orchestra conjure a world of enchantments in two scores inspired by fairy-tales: Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) and the early Shéhérazade overture.
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Steven Osborne performs Piano Concertos by Ravel and Manuel de Falla
2nd Jun 2017by James Longstaffe
James spends some nights in the gardens of Spain in the company of Steven Osborne and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
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Maurice Ravel
8th Aug 2014by James Longstaffe
James picks some recordings of the music of French composer, Maurice Ravel.
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Sublime Ravel from Ibragimova and Tiberghien
22nd Aug 2011by Chris O'Reilly
Following their outstanding series of Beethoven sonatas from the Wigmore Hall, the Russian violinist and French pianist offer utterly absorbing accounts of Ravel’s complete works for violin and piano, plus Guillaume Lekeu’s Violin Sonata, composed at around the same time as Ravel’s first essay in the genre.