Jane Jones marks both the Winter Olympics and St. Valentine’s Day with a work which is associated with both occasions. Boléro, the most famous work by French composer Maurice Ravel, was written more ...

Bernard Haitink cut these performances of Ravel back in 1971, and time has done nothing to downgrade their sonic beauty and conceptual clarity. The opening of Daphnis et Chloé highlights the profound ...

Boléro has attracted interpreters ranging from Pierre Boulez to James Last. Philip Clark seeks out the finest moments of an 80-year recording history I don’t know about you, but I love losing myself ...

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 ...