Nicolas Southon

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano piece 'Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este' that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: 'Jeux d'eau'. Laid out in sonata form, its sound is gove...

It was unmistakably Liszt's piano work "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" that inspired Ravel to write one of his most famous works in 1901. The piece is formally conceived as a sonata form, dominated...

Ravel's cycle of "Valses nobles et sentimentales" caused irritation at the anonymous premiere in 1911 at the Société nationale indépendante in Paris: many suspected Satie or even Kodály as the compose...