Composer

Whether the word “wave” reminds us of a beach by the sea, the radio or a football stadium – the idea of ​​energy is always in there somewhere. An energy that looks for its path and awakens the impression of liveliness. Waves often spread in circles, going out in all directions from a center point. Waves and circles play a role in a different way in the triple bill ballet program, Waves and Circles – they are extolled, are visible or are tangible.

Waves And Circles

Max-Joseph-Platz

Courtney Lewis leads the Jacksonville Symphony in a program of vivid imagination and timeless beauty. Dukas’s playful The Sorcerer’s Apprentice opens with enchantment and creative energy, followed by Debussy’s dreamlike Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Ravel’s Shéhérazade enchants with exotic melodies and lush vocal artistry, while Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker brings the festive season to life with its iconic, whimsical charm. The evening closes with Debussy’s La mer, an atmospheric masterpiece that evokes the majesty and mystery of the sea.

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The Nutcracker & Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Jacoby Symphony Hall

“Vivacious, funny, heroic, eloquent, plain-spoken, thoughtful, and wholly irresistible” – this was a critic’s verdict on Anders Hillborg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 after its world premiere in San Francisco in October 2023 with Emanuel Ax and Esa-Pekka Salonen: “You can’t help but love the results.” Now, this 22-minute “fascinating ball of fun,” written specifically for Ax, will be performed again by Ax and Salonen along with the BRSO. The work is flanked by Ravel’s harmonically refined, rhythmically sensuous, and melodically captivating Le Tombeau de Couperin, which is dedicated to the great French Baroque harpsichordist François Couperin, and Hector Berlioz’s aesthetically uncompromising Symphonie fantastique, whose premiere in 1830 led some to suspect that Berlioz had gone mad, while others heralded him as an icon of modern music.

Esa-Pekka Salonen & Emanuel Ax

Munich Residence

This French program, including Saint-Saëns' warm Concerto No.1 under the bow of Sheku Kanneth-Mason, offers French listeners the opportunity of a lifetime: to hear a previously unpublished work by Ravel for the first time!

Orchestre de Paris / Alain Altinoglu

Philharmonie de Paris

A whimsical winter concert featuring a French twist, with skilled conductor Stéphane Denève. In The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the magic brooms will be sweeping. We also hear Marie-Ange Nguci in Saint-Saëns’ second Piano Concerto.

Winter Magic with Denève

Göteborgs Symfoniker

1879 – 1899 – 1919: Three compositions from three eras, exactly 20 years apart. But that's not the only thing that connects them. All are closely linked to very specific individuals. With Le Tombeau de Couperin, Maurice Ravel creates a musical monument to one of the greatest composers of the French Baroque – François Couperin. In his Enigma Variations, Edward Elgar portrays friends and companions. But who lies behind these musical character studies was a mystery for a long time. That has long been revealed, but the magic remains. And Brahms's only violin concerto would be unthinkable without Joseph Joachim. The star violinist not only advised Brahms, he wrestled with him over every note. The result: one of the most popular works in violin literature. At the helm is Finnegan Downie Dear, one of the most promising conductors on the international scene, and the name of violinist Hana Chang is also worth remembering. This is the music of the future. And it sounds spectacular.

Ravel, Brahms, Elgar | Finnegan Downie Dear

The Bell, Bremen

Enjoy a wonderful brunch plate in the Foyer of the Music House while you are entertained by classical musicians on the Café Stage.

Classical Mornings

Musikhuset Aarhus

Snow sparkles in the pale winter sun, a horse-drawn sleigh glides through a light birch forest. Ice flowers grow on the window pane, while the samovar boils in the room. Tchaikovsky, with his First Symphony, makes a atmospheric declaration of love to the famous-infamous Russian winter with all its manifestations. In addition, two completely different but equally fascinating piano concertos are heard: Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto bursts with energy and sophistication. It is a youthful work full of spirit and shows Prokofiev as a true virtuoso of the piano. On the other hand, Ravel's Piano Concerto "for the left hand" is characterized by darker tones and was written for the pianist Paul Wittgenstein, who lost his right hand in World War I. It is so cleverly composed that as a listener, one does not realize that in this almost 20-minute concert, piano and orchestra only play together for six minutes. A challenge for our Artist in Residence, who once again can demonstrate the full range of his abilities.

Ravel and Tchaikovsky

Palace of Culture

No Christmas without storytelling! A large number of authors have provided us with captivating Advent reading material. All we need now is someone who can bring it to life in a powerful way. The MV Festival has found its expert in the spoken word: Clemens von Ramin. This year, he has selected cheerful, contemplative, and ironic stories from authors such as Waggerl, Kästner, Kishon, Rilke, and others. The young ensemble prizewinners of the Pacific Quintet set the musical tone.

Clemens von Ramin: From Kishon to Kästner

Schloss und Gut Ulrichshusen

Relais & Châteaux Gutshaus Stolpe

He’s been called a “musical omnivore” but anyone who’s experienced the BBC SSO’s former Chief Conductor (and current Creative Partner) Ilan Volkov knows that he’s an artist who sees music differently – and turns every concert into a voyage of discovery.

Debussy, Ravel & Rare Gem

City Halls

Márquez Ortiz Falla Ravel

Gasteig HP8

What could be better than magical fairy tales and romantic orchestral sounds at Christmas time? That's right: when "Die Gruaberin", Bavaria's funniest comedian, guides you through the world of fairy tales in her own unmistakable way. Don't miss this world premiere, in which Monika Gruber's cabaret Christmas program merges with symphonic masterpieces! Contemplative fairytale music and humorous, atmospheric stories about the Christmas season await you. We look forward to getting in the mood for the most wonderful time of the year together with you!

Monika Gruber Symphonic - Christmas program

Mozarteum Foundation

Born into a family of musicians in Munich, her career began at an early age. Her breakthrough came at the latest with numerous prizes at the Sarasate, Paganini and Tchaikovsky competitions, which quickly took her to the world's most important stages as a soloist. As a soloist and chamber musician, Yuki Manuela Janke also inspires as concertmaster of the most traditional orchestras. Her interpretation of Richard Strauss' "Heldenleben" in the Golden Hall in Vienna with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Christian Thielemann attracted particular attention.

Evening Recital N° 2

Semperoper Dresden

The string quartet is considered the pinnacle of chamber music – and we can experience why this is so at performances by the Quatuor Ébène: In around two decades, an ensemble has grown that not only plays in the premier league of international quartets, but also regularly leaves audiences breathless with its unconditional courage to take risks and the intensity of its interpretations. Even supposedly well-known repertoire sounds refreshingly new and excitingly different with the Quatuor Ébène. For example, Joseph Haydn, who is considered the inventor of the genre. The program features one of the Viennese classic's late quartets, the String Quartet in G major, Op. 76 No. 1, in which he bundled all his achievements in this field, as a kind of legacy. The bar was thus set high for subsequent generations of composers, a fact that Johannes Brahms also felt: he spent around 20 years exploring the genre before presenting his first quartets to the public with Opus 51. Framed by the two German-speaking composers, the only string quartet by the Frenchman Maurice Ravel can be heard, which is full of wonderful sound effects.

Quatuor Ébène

CityPalais

Unfortunately, we need to change the first half of the programme on December 7 because of scheduling reasons. Instead of the originally planned programme with works for brass ensemble by Takemitsu, Shostakovich, and Tomasi, we will be offering “Four Black American Dances” by Carlos Simon and the trumpet concerto “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See” by Bernd Alois Zimmermann.

Andris Nelsons & Håkan Hardenberger

USO 2025-26 Season Concert 2

Mendocino College

“A passion for musical discovery”— that is what the members of L’Armonia Terrena say unites them. What this ensemble has uncovered in the contrasting musical worlds of Haydn, Ravel and Martinů will be revealed in largest instrumental group performance to take place during this season’s matinee series. The ensemble will be led by Zdeněk Klauda, with Czech Philharmonic cellist Eduard Šístek appearing as soloist.

Czech Chamber Music Society • L'Armonia Terrena

Music and Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

As part of his project to write ‘six sonatas for diverse instruments’, Debussy wrote the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp in 1915, immediately creating a new classic instrumental combination. The programme also includes Ibert’s homage to the Debussy trio and Ravel’s Sonatine, skilfully arranged for the same forces.

Chamber Series: Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

Hallé St Peter's

The Hallé – Chamber Series: Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

The Bridgewater Hall

4th Symphony Concert

Nikolaisaal

Look forward to a reunion with the wonderful violinist Tianwa Yang. In 2022, she received perhaps the most important award for a soloist: the OPUS KLASSIK "Instrumentalist of the Year." In the 2022/23 season, we hosted Tianwa Yang as our "Artist in Residence," and in 2024, we toured China with her. Whether there or at our joint concerts in Germany, audiences everywhere fell at her feet.

4th Philharmonic Concert

Messe Frankfurt

The young Swedish-Norwegian violinist Johan Dalene has long demonstrated that virtuoso violin music is also at home in Northern Europe. As one of the world's most sought-after young artists, he champions the composers of his Scandinavian homeland. He recorded the album "Nordic Rhapsody" with pianist Christian Ihle Hadland, on which the two immerse themselves entirely in the Nordic soundscape, sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes profoundly. He also presented the violin concerto by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen at his acclaimed Elbphilharmonie concert last year.

Johan Dalene, Violin

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Dive into a night of elegance and emotion with Cassandra Miller’s serene Swim, Ravel’s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto in G Major featuring Alexandra Dariescu–hailed as one of the most inspiring pianists of her generation–and the timeless romance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake conducted by Tianyi Liu.

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Mixed instrumental ensembles—from quartets to nonets—perform a diverse range of chamber works from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Color & Light

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

The renowned British musician Thomas Adès has put together an evening dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Pierre Boulez’s birth. Perhaps as a tribute to Boulez, he will appear in both roles for which Boulez was known: as a composer and a conductor.

Czech Philharmonic • Thomas Adès

Rudolfinum

Join the Duke Symphony Orchestra for an evening of profound emotional depth and stirring musical beauty in "The Exaltation of Tragedy"-a program that explores the majesty, sorrow, and transcendence born from the human condition through powerful orchestral works.

Duke Symphony Orchestra: "The Exaltation of Tragedy"

Entertaining and colorful stories are told in Monday Concert 1 at the Beethoven House: stories in music, performed by a powerful and dazzling ensemble of wind instruments, double bass, and piano. We travel with Fazıl Say to a small Anatolian village, observe the crowds on the Parisian boulevards (including pin-up girls and aging beauties...) with Francis Poulenc and Jean Françaix, and serenade our loved ones as a Spanish jester!

Villages and Boulevards

Beethoven-Haus Bonn

Cellist Alisa Weilerstein is joined by her great friends, violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Inon Barnatan, for an evening of vibrant chamber music. Having recorded Beethoven’s Triple Concerto together, the three musicians are turning their joint attention to some of the highlights of the trio repertoire.

Alisa Weilerstein & Friends

Southbank Centre

Guest Concert

Konzerthaus Karlsruhe

Imagine this: Three sailors go ashore for their 24-hour vacation to discover New York. They experience the most incredible adventures in this vast city that never sleeps. And...

Overseas

Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen

Piano virtuoso Javier Perianes, praised by Gramophone for his “infallible ear for style, atmosphere and colour” returns to perform Nights in the Gardens of Spain, evoking Falla’s beloved Andalusia with its mysterious, fragrant beauty, strumming guitars, flamenco rhythms and dancing melodies. Our rich, Spanish-flavored concert culminates in Rapsodie Espagnole, Ravel’s orchestral masterpiece, showing him as a master of instrumental color. Its four sections are vivid echoes of the sounds and dances of Spain, and its final movement, the sultry “Feria” (“The Fair”), punctuated by castanets, is ablaze in a riot of colors. In between, it’s the zesty suite from The Three-Cornered Hat, replete with sounds of stamping feet, timpani drumming and castanets clicking out infectious rhythms.

Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Never one to shy away from a challenge, Yuja Wang does double duty in two virtuosic piano concertos: Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand, which transforms an apparent limitation into a jaw-dropping tour de force, alongside Ligeti’s fiendishly playful contribution to the genre. Czech conductor Petr Popelka continues the celebrations for Ravel’s 150th birthday with the composer’s magnificent orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Yuja Wang Plays Ravel

Severance Music Center

Debussy’s 1894 impressionistic musical canvas was a turning-point in music. Beginning with a seductive solo flute, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune languidly blends and blurs harmonies in its depiction of a faun on a hazy afternoon.

London Symphony Orchestra/Alexandre Bloch

Barbican Centre

Discover Portuguese composer Luís de Freitas Branco’s 1911 String Quartet, with violinist Nuno Carapina and friends. Pop in just for this 45-minute concert, or stay for our 7.30pm performance featuring music by Berlioz and Gabriela Ortiz (separate ticket required). 

Philharmonia Chamber Players: A Portuguese Quartet

2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Maurice Ravel's birth. Fittingly, the program presents a selection of works in which we encounter typical elements of Ravel's sensuous and sophisticated music: Effective virtuosity characterizes the popular "Tzigane," spectacular for the audience, yet highly demanding for the performers, a "virtuoso piece in the style of a Hungarian rhapsody," as the composer himself put it. In "La Valse," Ravel lets the musical worlds of Viennese waltzes and French Impressionism collide, while the second movement of his second violin sonata is inspired by the then-new and exciting jazz.

Serenade for Ravel

Theater Duisburg

Claire Huangci caused a sensation last year with her CD "Made in USA," and also delighted the Blaibach audience with works from it. Now she returns to the concert hall with a spectacular program—piano artistry of the highest order.

Piano recital Claire Huangci

Blaibach Concert Hall

Join Rei Hotoda and the Fresno Philharmonic for an evening of powerful and innovative musical brilliance. The centerpiece is Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, a bold and lively masterpiece that was still being shaped at its premiere and has since become one of the most celebrated works in classical music. Pianist Jon Kimura Parker joins the orchestra as soloist. The program also features Ravel’s elegant Le Tombeau de Couperin, written in honor of fallen friends, and Sibelius’s majestic and structure-bending Symphony No. 5.

Ravel, Beethoven & Sibelius

Paul Shaghoian Memorial Concert Hall

Music that brings stillness. It may sound paradoxical, but that’s exactly the goal of Casco Phil’s INKEER concerts. Together with a professional meditation specialist, Casco Phil’s string quartet offers a counterbalance to our hectic, digital, hyper-fast daily lives. The quest for inner peace is timeless. From the intricate vocal weavings of Palestrina, Allegri and Mechelen-born Philippus de Monte to the impressionistic colour palettes of Ravel and Debussy: old and new meet in a search for inner calm that makes you forget time—even if just for a moment.

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Mechelen Public Library Het Predikheren

Join the MSO for The Ravel Experience, a concert that explores Ravel’s extraordinary gift for creating rich, imaginative soundscapes.

The Ravel Experience

Living Arts Centre

Join us inside the heated tent at Beacon Park in Downtown Detroit for a special edition rebroadcast of Live from Orchestra Hall! Beacon Park will be lit up for the holidays, providing a beautiful backdrop for your holiday festivities. Holiday-themed drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.

Live from Orchestra Hall at Beacon Park

Beacon Park

We return to the Wimbledon International Festival, conducted by our Principal Bassoon Robin O’Neill.

Enjoy a radiant programme celebrating the refined, sensuous world of Maurice Ravel in his 150th birthday year, with two highlights from the composer’s catalogue: Tombeau de Couperin and Pavane pour une infante défunte.

We’re joined by star violist Timothy Ridout in Britten’s Lachrymae, a piece that showcases the deep emotional depth of the instrument.

Wimbledon International Music Festival: Tertis Memorial Concert

Wimbledon High School

Immerse yourself in an enchanting evening of music, featuring a stirring new guitar concerto by composer Karen LeFrak, Miami Concerto, performed by the incomparable Sharon Isbin (Christel DeHaan Legacy Artist). The piece demonstrates a captivating journey with vibrant Latin rhythms and lush melodies showcasing the guitar’s full range of beauty and power.

Miami in Motion Sharon Isbin, Guitar

Butler University

Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin pays homage to the rich French musical inheritance of the 18th century and to the composer’s comrades who fell in battle. Similarly, Escher’s composition honours Ravel in a distinctly French manner. Inspired by Baroque dances, both works feature intricately textured and nuanced instrumentation.

Immortal Ravel

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Experience a night of rhythmic passion and orchestral storytelling. Bizet’s Suite No. 1 from Carmen ignites with fiery Spanish melodies and drama. Montero’s Latin Concerto blends vibrant Latin rhythms with lush melodies and rich textures. The evening concludes with Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, a stunning masterpiece of Greek myth, filled with lyrical beauty and sensuous dance.

Shelley Conducts Carmen and Daphnis and Chloe

Pianist, vocalist, and Hancher’s composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane joins the vibrant Attacca Quartet for a performance which employs Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major as a scaffolding. Ravel’s work will be interwoven with Gabriel Kahane’s Klee and Final Privacy Song. The artists, who will also spend significant time in residency with University of Iowa School of Music students, will end the program with a new set of songs written for this occasion.

Gabriel Kahane and Attacca Quartet

University of Iowa

A thrilling fusion of symphonic mastery and jazz-infused energy! Grammy Award-winning pianist Michelle Cann takes center stage for both Florence Price’s Piano Concerto, a work of rich lyricism and bold orchestral colors, and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G, a dazzling blend of elegance and swing.

  Rhythm of the Americas

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

Ensemble 360 and Claire Booth, who have forged a dynamic partnership through their performances of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire together, now turn their attention to Berio's quirky and intriguing Folk Songs in the composer's centenary year. Indeed, folk influences pervade the whole programme, from Rebecca Clarke's pastoral-tinged duo for clarinet and viola and Katherine Hoover’s evocation of the Hopi people to Ravel's sultry, sun-drenched pictures of Madagascar.

Claire Booth & Ensemble 360: Berio Folk Songs

Bute Park

Marktplatz

Experience an enthralling programme of 20th-century chamber masterpieces, performed live.

Harp Chamber Music

Royal Academy of Music

This concert is curated by PhD candidate Jon Urdapilleta as part of his research on Manuel de Falla's music.

Visions on Cante Jondo

Experience familiar classics through a fresh lens as the Artelize Orchestra pairs beloved masterpieces with striking contemporary works. Each piece on tonight's program takes an unexpected turn—whether through innovative orchestration, surprising musical pairings, or bold new compositions that twist classical traditions.

The Classics - With a Twist

Artelize Hall

Maurice Ravel's work coincided with the emergence of jazz. And in the music of the French composer, who traveled through Harlem with George Gershwin in the 1920s to hear jazz greats like Duke Ellington and the rest, echoes of the new style can be repeatedly detected. ...

Rhapsody In Blue Meets Bolero

BASF-Feierabendhaus

Maurice Ravel is one of the most creative, detailed, and skilled composers in history. In the French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet we find talent in a similar vein: a musician of inexhaustible imagination, drive, and virtuosity. Bavouzet brings to CMS a great pianistic feat dedicated to Ravel’s complete major works for solo piano. This recital will go down in Lincoln Center history as a landmark artistic achievement.

An Evening with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Inspiration comes in all forms—whether it’s the sounds of a neighborhood, a different style of music, or even stories from over one thousand years ago.

Scheherazade

Merrill Auditorium

With a program that spans the elegant sophistication of Ravel, the timeless beauty of Mozart, and the inventive genius of Stravinsky, this concert is a celebration of the neoclassical spirit in all its forms.

Neoclassical Nights

Burnt Store Presbyterian Church

The Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra is the oldest continuously operating orchestra in the state of Oregon. From its inception in 1906 as a collegiate orchestra composed of nine members, the symphony has grown into a full symphonic orchestra performing 3 major classical concerts, a holiday concert, and a children’s concert each season. Professional musicians from throughout the Willamette Valley are joined by talented community members, OSU faculty, and OSU students representing a wide span of majors across campus. Repertoire from recent seasons includes Strauss’ Alpine Symphony, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, Ravel’s “Daphnis and Chloe,” and Brahms’ Fourth Symphony.

Corvallis-OSU Symphony Presents: Fall Concert

Oregon State University

Homage

Travis Park United Methodist Church

Music straight from Marianna Shirinyan's heart: Get to know our artist-in-residence better for a concert that comes all the way around the piano.
Marianna Shirinyan is the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Residence – and we're celebrating that with an entire concert featuring only piano. Because the piano can do it all: “The piano is a percussion instrument, it's a string instrument – ​​and it's a singing instrument; the piano can sing,” says Marianna Shirinyan. “As pianists, we are incredibly rich. A lifetime is not enough to play the music that has been written for our instrument.”

Shirinyan

Aarhus Music Hall

More than a pianist, Hayato Sumino is a phenomenon. Known on YouTube as “Cateen,” the Japanese musician has earned tens of millions of views for his captivating interpretations of classical masterworks and original compositions. A semi-finalist at the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, he has reignited interest in the iconic composer. In his highly anticipated Symphony Center debut, Sumino performs works by Chopin, Bach and Ravel, alongside his own evocative pieces, including New Birth and Recollection.

Hayato Sumino

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

“Taste What You Hear” as North America’s top concertmasters perform works paired to the finest in wine. Featuring Kansas City Symphony concertmaster Jun Iwasaki and pianist Sean Chen.

Jun Iwasaki & Sean Chen

Fairbanks Ranch Country Club

RAVEL AND STRAVINSKY with JENEBA KANNEH-MASON

Dorchester Abbey

Enigma Variations

Carson Center for the Performing Arts

Trio Azura was founded in 2022 at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles. The ensemble consists of Canadian violinist Duncan McDougall, South Korean cellist Yejin Hong, and Chinese pianist Yanfeng (Tony) Bai. They are the Ensemble in Residence at Colburn, studying under faculty members Jonathan Brown, Fabio Bidini, Martin Beaver, and Clive Greensmith. The Trio won the Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the 51st Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In addition, they received the Lift Every Voice Prize for the best performance of a work by an underrepresented composer, as well as the Horszowski Trio Prize. They are also prize winners at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China.

Trio Azura

Los Angeles Harbor College

Pacific Unitarian Church

Celebrated South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son returns to the Orpheum to showcase two piano concertos by the French Romantic composer, Maurice Ravel. Maestro Tausk then takes us on an adventure into the fairytale world of Ravel’s Mother Goose, inspired by classic stories like Beauty and the Beast, Sleeping Beauty, and more. Dedicated to the memory of British composer Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin’s tour-de-force Concerto for Orchestra highlights the virtuosity of the musicians of our VSO.

Ravel’s Piano Concertos

Orpheum

Catalonia is said to be somewhat like Spain's "Gallic village"—proud, somewhat stubborn, and full of strong personalities. With the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its chief conductor Ludovic Morlot and world-class soprano Nuria Rial, important Catalan cultural ambassadors are coming to Hamburg—bringing music from their homeland with them, accompanied by perhaps the most famous pieces by Ravel and Debussy.

Barcelona Symphony Orchestra / Nuria Rial / Ludovic Morlot

A pair of Ravel’s impressionistic masterworks bookend this era spanning concert, led by the prodigious Matthias Pintscher. The enchanting Mother Goose Suite begins the evening amid magical pagodas and fairy gardens. The concert concludes with his dazzling and dizzying La Valse, a masterful juxtaposition of the elegance and violence of 19th-century imperial society.

Mozart, Ravel & Pintscher

Walt Disney Concert Hall

French music is a matter close to Simon Gaudenz's heart – and at the same time, it forms a repertoire that is still too rarely the focus of attention in Germany. Its magic lies in its subtle distance: sounds like fleeting scents, shimmering plays of color, transparency, and rhythmic precision create soundscapes of enchanting beauty. In this spirit, André Caplet's delicate cantata "Tout est lumière" resonates, as does Ernest Chausson's heartfelt "Poème" and Maurice Ravel's concert rhapsody "Tzigane" – masterfully interpreted by Tianwa Yang.

Thursday concert № 3 »Parfums de lumière«

Volkshaus Jena

Acclaimed Canadian pianist Louis Lortie graces the Lobero stage with a captivating all-Ravel program. Known for his exquisite touch, profound musicality, and insightful interpretations, Lortie is a master of the French repertoire. This intimate recital offers a journey through the evocative sound world of Maurice Ravel, from the delicate beauty of Pavane pour une infante défunte and the sparkling virtuosity of Jeux d’eau to the haunting imagery of Gaspard de la nuit and the swirling intensity of La valse. Experience the full range of Ravel’s genius, from impressionistic landscapes to dazzling displays of pianistic brilliance, in this unforgettable evening of solo piano music.

Louis Lortie, piano

Lobero Theatre

Louis Lortie

DYNAMIKfest and the renowned Fondation Gautier Capuçon join forces to present a tribute to Maurice Ravel, whose 150th birthday is celebrated this year. The program explores masterpieces by important composers who influenced Ravel in very different ways—whether through cultural heritage or compositional diversity.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ravel! FONDATION GAUTIER CAPUÇON DYNAMIKfest 2025

The second symphony concert, in which the symphony orchestra performs Joseph-Maurice Ravel's "Kaddish" – a setting of the most important prayer in Judaism – oscillates between major and minor, hard and soft, exhilaration and sadness on the occasion of November 9th. Also featured is Antonín Dvořák's now-famous Cello Concerto in B minor, which the composer created under the influence of great grief for his childhood sweetheart, Josefine. A fluctuation between major and minor, tension and relaxation, characterizes Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony. "... all movements seem to be cast from one mold, a heartbeat, each movement a jewel!" praised Clara Schumann in 1884.

Major & Minor

Berliner Philharmonie

The Hong Kong–born New Yorker entered the Juilliard School’s pre-college programme aged only eight. Today, she juggles her career with vlogging, giving her several hundred thousand YouTube subscribers glimpses behind the scenes of her life as a pianist, complete with the agony and ecstasy of performing.

Tiffany Poon: Alkan, Debussy & Ravel

Start your Sunday morning off right with music that transports you to other worlds. The quiet, heartfelt sounds of Elgar's Cello Concerto, performed by the masterful cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, will invite you to take a moment to pause and reconnect with yourself. Under the inspired direction of chief conductor Jun Märkl, we'll weave a rich tapestry of warm, expressive melodies - music that moves you and encourages you to find your own meaning within its notes.

Composer

Maurice Ravel

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 2, 2024 - Apr 14, 2026

Chamber Music for Winds · The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Apr 13, 2025 - Apr 18, 2026

Campanile Orchestra · The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

Sep 16, 2025 - Jun 16, 2026

NDR Chamber Concert · Elbphilharmonie

Dec 21, 2025 - Jul 19, 2026

Waves And Circles · Bayerische Staatsoper

Dec 22, 2025

Petr Popelka and Pierre-Laurent Aimard · Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Dec 21, 2025 - Jul 19, 2026

Waves And Circles · Bayerische Staatsoper

19 - 20 Dec, 2025

The Nutcracker & Sorcerer’s Apprentice · Jacksonville Symphony

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