A Ravel Soiree

Tom Service and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a Ravel evening with live music from Radio 3 New Generation Artist Louis Schwizgebel, guests including Ravel scholar and consultant on the Radio 3 day, Roger Nichols and the composer George Benjamin, and celebrated recordings of some of his last works including Bolero, the Left Hand Piano Concerto, the G major Piano Concerto and the Don Quichotte Songs. There'll also be several Ravel Revealed features including a look at Ravel and literature with Ian McMillan, a programme of readings and music from the actress Kristin Scott Thomas, a visit to Ravel's house just outside Paris and a look at the final debilitating disease. And a rarely heard 1947 recording of his 1-act opera L'Enfant et les Sortilèges.

Ravel
Gaspard de la Nuit
Louis Schwizgebel (piano)

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Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

Ravel
Boléro

Ravel
Menuet antique

Ravel Remembered: Ravel and Jazz

Ravel
Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Krystian Zimerman (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra
conducted by Pierre Boulez

Ravel
Piano Concerto in G

Ravel Remembered: Ravel's Illness

Ravel
Don Quichotte a Dulcinée
Ronsard à son âme
Martial Singher (baritone)
Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola

Ravel Remembered: Ravel and Literature

22.30*
Ravel
L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
(Fantaisie lyrique in 2 parts. Words by Colette)
A classic recording from 1947 with Nadine Sautereau as the child and the Chorus and Orchestra of Radiodiffusion Française
conducted by Ernest Bour.