MAURICE RAVEL’S “Boléro” is a strange piece of music, consisting of two melodies repeated nine times each. Originally the score to a ballet, it is catchy and keeps running in the listener’s head long ...

Four cellists play Ravel’s Bolero on just one instrument Who was Maurice Ravel? Maurice Ravel was a French composer, conductor and pianist, credited with being one of the composers to really develop ...

The Orchestre National de France has posted a video on YouTube where the musicians, confined since Covid-19 lockdown, play Ravel's "Boléro". The video has already been viewed more than 670,000 times.

Some paintings are meant to be appreciated in silence – but not this one. It is called Unravelling Boléro, by Canadian artist Anne Adams, and is a bar-by-bar representation of the popular classical ...

Some impressionistic structuring, and a calmly charismatic performance from Raphaël Personnaz, elevate Anne Fontaine's absorbing biopic of Maurice Ravel. Indeed Fontaine’s screenplay, co-written with ...

Writing to a friend shortly after finishing the work, Ravel described it as having “no form in the true sense of the word, no development, and hardly any modulation”. And to the Swiss composer Arthur ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The beat underpinning Ravel’s Boléro pushes inexorably and mechanically forward. The sinuous melody coils ...