Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history I don’t know about you, but I love losing myself ...

Wie was Maurice Ravel? Hoe bewoog hij zich in de wereld, hoe stak hij in zijn pak? Raphaël Personnaz vond het uit, en ís Ravel in de film Boléro van Anne Fontaine. Raphaël Personnaz (42) móést het ...

Ever experimental, and a real pioneer of asking questions of form in music, Ravel had long toyed with the idea of building a composition from a single theme which would grow simply through harmonic ...

Ravel's Bolero is a composition that rose from the depths of nonchalant dismissal by Ravel's contemporaries to being one of the few truly recognizable melodies in classical music. Sadly, you rarely ...

Composed in 1928, Ravel's rhythmic piece will be forever synonymous with ice-skating stars Torvill and Dean. On Valentine’s Day in 1984, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean became the highest-scoring ...

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay, co-written with ...

De Bolero van Maurice Ravel behoort tot de populairste muziekstukken ter wereld. Naar het schijnt wordt er gemiddeld ieder kwartier door iemand naar geluisterd, een bewering die te mooi is om te ...

Even Maurice Ravel couldn't quite understand the enormous popularity of this piece. To his colleague Arthur Honegger, he said, "I created just one masterpiece, and it's 'Bolero'; unfortunately, it ...

French composer Maurice Ravel debuted his Bolero in 1928, with a full orchestral arrangement. Since then, it’s been performed with just about every possible arrangement, and in every style. There’s… ...

Almost 90 years after it was first performed in Paris, the copyright ran out on Sunday on one of the most popular and unique pieces of classical music, Ravel’s Bolero. “We are accustomed to say that a ...