Bolero is perhaps best known from the 1979 movie 10 soundtrack. But Maurice Ravel didn't strictly have romance in mind when he composed the classic piece, music commentator Miles Hoffman says.

Every 15 minutes, according to a title at the end of director Anne Fontaine‘s latest film, someone on earth plays Maurice Ravel’s “Boléro.”It’s a largely unprovable statement that is ...

Tomorrow, BBC Radio 3 is giving over an entire day to the music of Maurice Ravel. From A Ravel Breakfast starting at 6.30 in the morning, to Through the Night at 1.00am, ...

The French violinist Philippe Graffin has found a way to draw out Ravel's well-hidden heart. In two concerts at the Wigmore Hall on 29 February, he performs a hefty chunk of Ravel's chamber music ...

Before he left for a triumphant tour of North America in January 1928, Maurice Ravel had agreed to write a Spanish-flavoured ballet score for his friend, the Russian dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein ...

Ravel's "Boléro" can still thrill. Yet its composer never understood what all the fuss was about.

The sonorous 90-year-old work by the French composer Maurice Ravel, entered the public domain this week but a legal challenge is seeking to extend the copyright for another two decades.