Warmth was abundant in “Firefly,” a wishlist of pieces that cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer devised last winter while dreaming of the day the orchestra could gather again.

The opening movements of the fervently extravagant Piano Quartet that Guillaume Lekeu (1870-94) didn't live to complete make a stronger impression than Frank Bridge's Phantasy. url.ie/6c45 ...

It's an interesting idea to pair Ravel's music for violin and piano with the songful, Franckian Violin Sonata in G by Belgian composer Guillaume Lekeu, who died in 1894 at the age of 24. Lekeu was ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ravel’s jazz-influenced Violin Sonata and the gypsy-like “concert rhapsody” Tzigane are not long enough to ...

Ravel’s output for violin and piano clocks in at around 50 minutes, so there’s a generous bonus on this CD in the shape of Guillaume Lekeu’s Violin Sonata. Lekeu, a pupil of Cesar Franck, died in 1894 ...