History and homage / Barbara L. Kelly -- Evocations of exoticism / Robert Orledge -- Musical objects and machines / Deborah Mawer -- Ravel and the piano / Roy Howat -- Harmony in the chamber music / Mark DeVoto -- Ravel and the orchestra / Michael Russ -- Ballet and the apotheosis of the dance / Deborah Mawer -- Vocal music and the lures of exoticism and irony / Peter Kaminsky -- Ravel's operatic spectacles : L'Heure and L'Enfant / Richard Langham Smith -- Performing Ravel : style and practice in the early recordings / Ronald Woodley -- Ravel and the twentieth century / Roger Nichols -- Early reception of Ravel's music (1899-1939) / Roger Nichols and Deborah Mawer.