Composer Maurice Ravel was a virtuoso orchestrator, very much in the lineage of Berlioz, Rimsky-Korsakov and Richard Strauss, writes Leonard Turnevicius.

And in fact, Smetana’s piece, with its two movements in moderate tempos, made an agreeably unshowy opener for Sunday’s ...

Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim joins Donald Macleod to discuss his life and work.