Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Ravel’s complete piano works

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

By Edward Sava-Segal, 19 November 2025

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“Gaspard de la nuit served as the programme’s psychological and technical fulcrum”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Alice Tully Hall, New York City on 18 November 2025

Ravel, Sérénade grotesque

Ravel, Menuet antique

Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte

Ravel, Jeux d'eau

Ravel, Sonatine in F sharp major

Ravel, Miroirs

Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit

Ravel, Menuet sur le nom de Haydn

Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales

Ravel, A la manière de Chabrier

Ravel, À la manière de Borodine

Ravel, Prélude

Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Piano

Mixed results from Dalia Stasevska's trio of 20th-century works

David Truslove, 12th March

Seldom heard and standard repertoire bring mixed results from Dalia Stasevska, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus.

***11

Bavouzet’s Manchester Mozart cycle reaches its epic peak

Leighton Jones, 20th September

All good things must come to end, but Manchester Camerata's Mozart piano concerto cycle did so in exceptional style in Stoller Hall.

*****

Albéric Magnard steals the show in all-French recital at Wigmore Hall

Nick Boston, 15th November

How many of Albéric Magnard's 22 works do you know? Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and the Orsino Ensemble perform his Quintet in D minor to Wigmore Hall and it becomes the sixth star of the evening.

*****

More Mozart, made in Manchester from the Camerata

Rohan Shotton, 25th March

Gábor Takács-Nagy and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet tackle Mozart's Piano Concertos nos. 24 and 25 with the Manchester Camerata with their usual panache.

****1

Domingo Hindoyan’s RLPO soirée française

Leighton Jones, 20th January

Two unusual French orchestral works bring a unity to a Philharmonic Hall programme mixing the familiar and the unfamiliar.

****1

Five star Franck from Bavouzet and the Quatuor Danel at Wigmore Hall

Chris Garlick, 23rd October

A truly committed performance of César Franck's Piano Quintet, a work that is played too rarely and is often misunderstood by performers and audience alike.

*****

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Edward Sava-Segal

Edward has been living in New York for the last 25 years, one of the reasons being the extraordinarily rich cultural life in this city. He has studied piano and classical music in his early years. He switched later on to computer science and data architecture but he kept an unwavering interest in following the classical music phenomenon here in New York and in his travels. Edward occasionally reviews fine arts events for the most prestigious literary magazine in Romania, his home country.

Contour and colour in New York: Bavouzet plays Ravel’s complete piano works