A Ravel Salon

Maurice Ravel composed around 20 piano works ranging from short tributes to major suites. His piano writing was ambitious and original even though he himself was not a virtuoso. Roy Howat joins Tom Service to talk about Ravel's piano compositions. He plays a couple of Ravel's miniatures and also talks about the five-movement suite Miroirs, which will be played in classic recordings by five different pianists, some of whom knew Ravel, including Jacques F退vrier, Vlado Perlemuter and Robert Casadesus.

Tom Service explores Ravel's piano music with pianist Roy Howat.

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