Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Ravel’s opera with a performance from February 28, 1981.

Ravel’s inspired genius and quirky personality comes vibrantly to life in a mix of musical highlights and commentary from acclaimed artists with unique interpretations of the French composer’s music.

Among the composer’s lesser known works are pieces inspired by ticking clocks, talking animals, and Madagascar folk songs!

This week, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in Ravel’s Mother Goose, Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements, and Dessner’s Violin Concerto, featuring soloist Pekka Kuusisto. Rounding out the program, Sir George Solti conducts Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra.

Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.

Works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and Maurice Ravel.

Curated celebratory classical music, and the exact second to press play so the music crescendos with the changing of the New Year.

Music by three French composers captivated by the music of Spain: Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Maurice Ravel. Plus music by Spanish composers Manuel de Falla and Pablo de Sarasate.

A retrospective on Leonard Bernstein’s revolutionary concert series, which introduced countless listeners to classical music. And Jamie Bernstein, daughter of the influential conductor-composer, reflect on her father’s legacy.

The Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko take the Waldbühne stage in a program pairing Maurice Ravel with music by Modest Mussorgsky and Sergei Prokofiev and featuring pianist Yuja Wang.

André de Ridder leads the CSO in a suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, along with Rhapsody in Blue and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with Inon Barnatan. Next, seventh music director Jean Martinon conducts selections from Bizet’s L’arlésienne and second music director Frederick Stock’s arrangement of Paganini’s “Moto Perpetuo”.

Pianist Rieko Tsuchida performs works by J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel, Sato Matsui, and Isaac Albéniz live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Music Director Louis Langrée teams up again with acclaimed composer Jonathan Bailey Holland for a world premiere symphony.

In this broadcast, we hear Pierre Boulez conduct three French works: the score to the ballet La Péri by Paul Dukas, the Symphony No. 3 by Roussel, and the Mother Goose suite by Ravel. We’ll also hear Leonard Bernstein lead a performance of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto from the keyboard.

From Bolivia to Ghana to India to the US, the perspective-changing experience of travel influenced many of your favorite composers.

Thomas Adès and pianist Kirill Gerstein’s longstanding collaboration has been called “an auspicious meeting of giants.”

Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.

It’s an evening of tributes, with brilliant composers borrowing tunes by other brilliant composers to cast a spell of musical delights.

Marc-André Hamelin demonstrated his incredible command of the piano in a live performance on WFMT’s airwaves.

Pianist Juho Pohjonen conveys Ravel’s macabre yet gorgeous Gaspard de la Nuit. Plus, the Dover Quartet with special guests Ida Kavafian and Peter Stumpf tackles Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard joins Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony for Bela Bartók’s zany Second Piano Concerto, in a program also featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s vibrant Romeo and Juliet and Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin.

More reissued highlights from the Eloquence label.

Viet Cuong premieres his work Stargazer featuring Sarah Cahill at the piano.

Take out the high courts and bring in the dancing elephants: here are some of the strangest opera plots that have ever been put to paper.

Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Beethoven, and other high-flying orchestral highlights mark the ESO’s 75th anniversary season.