Figures of modernity in France and in Russia. Prokofiev and Ravel were both interested in older musical forms such as the suite of dances: through a reinvented Baroque language, their compositional research shed light on all the richness of their musical world. Written in times that were marked by the war and the historic upheavals of the early 20th century, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin and Prokofiev’s Fourth Sonata are linked to the memory of their dedicatees. Between memory and imagination, the works carry on a dialogue…