Maurice Ravel

Tune in on Sunday, Aug. 30 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a Haydn symphony, Strauss' Don Juan, Ravel's Bolero, and Kevin Puts' Contact, written for Time for Three.

Join us on Sunday, June 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in Stravinsky's revolutionary Le Sacre du Printemps and Ravel's 'Mother Goose Suite,' and Seong-Jin Cho performs Shostakovich's first Piano Concerto.

Join us on Sunday, June 7 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, June 8 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Debussy, Ravel, and a concerto featuring pipa soloist Wu Man

Join us on Sunday, Sept. 6 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Sept. 7 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Ravel, Strauss and Bruch, with violinist Gil Shaham and conductor Stéphane Denève.

We’re already barreling toward the end of January, and we have a really cool slate of performances this weekend.

Join us on Sunday, Feb. 8 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Emanuel Ax in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17, on a program that also finds Dalia Stasevska conducting Lutosławski and Ravel.

Join us on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica"), Michael Tilson Thomas' 'Agnegram,' and Ravel's 'Piano Concerto for the Left Hand,' featuring Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Osmo Vänskä is on the podium.

Join us on Sunday, Sept. 21 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance featuring Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" symphony, a suite from Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, and Saariaho's Graal théâtre. Rafael Payare is on the podium, alongside violinist Carolin Widmann in her debut with the orchestra.

The French composer Maurice Ravel was deeply enamored of jazz. Generations of jazz musicians have returned the compliment.

In honor of Ravel's sesquicentennial, WRTI hosts have picked an array of standout recordings — from a glowing “Jeux d'eau” by Martha Argerich to a masterly Daphnis et Chloé led by André Previn.