Ravel at 150
For the fifth concert of his 2025 Oxford Summer Piano Series, now in its 37th year, award-winning pianist Jack Gibbons celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel. The programme features a selection of Ravel’s most evocative and technically dazzling piano works, including the masterful Gaspard de la nuit, which Gibbons performed to critical acclaim at his 1984 Queen Elizabeth Hall London debut.
The selection of compositions for the evening is as follows:
- Sonatine
- Oiseaux tristes
- Alborada del gracioso
- Ma mère l'Oye
- Jeux d’eau
- Pavane pour une infante défunte
- Gaspard de la nuit