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Donald Macleod surveys the music Ravel wrote in connection with the people around him, through both personal and professional relationships.

He begins with pieces associated with the composer's mother and the Basque heritage which was so important to him. Then he explores Ravel's fascination with things mechanical and industrial, a fascination formed in the workshop of his father, an engineer and inventor.

Next, Macleod examines the importance for Ravel of the poets he read, and those he knew, in fin-de-si猫cle Montmartre. Then, he turns to Ravel's sometimes troubled relationships with those who commissioned him.

Donald Macleod concludes his exploration of Ravel鈥檚 music in the context of contemporary composers; from those who influenced him to those who looked to him for inspiration.