The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling the most colorful and for pianists the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it ??? how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences to explore the background influences and impulses behind Ravel's music is to be engaged in a form of biography. Discovering the delicate melancholy of the ???Pavane??? and the ?? ...
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The piano music of Maurice Ravel is among the most thrilling the most colorful and for pianists the most challenging of the repertoire. This book is about how performers and listeners can discover it and relate to it ??? how it sounds and feels under the fingers and within the receptive imagination. But to write about those experiences to explore the background influences and impulses behind Ravel's music is to be engaged in a form of biography. Discovering the delicate melancholy of the ???Pavane??? and the ???Sonatine??? the astounding virtuosity of ???Gaspard de la nuit??? and the exotic tone painting of ???Miroirs (Reflections)??? leads to the question Who was the extraordinary person who created this? ???Here are indispensable insights into the literary origins of ???Gaspard de la nuit??? the derivation of the water imagery in ???Jeux d'eau??? and the sensuous delights of ???Miroirs???. The chapter on ???Valses nobles et sentimentales??? illuminates Ravel's meticulously controlled sense of irony. ???Le tombeau de Couperin??? is related to the impact of the First World War on his psyche and to the refuge he sought in the civilizing values of the age of Watteau and Couperin. Intimate and perceptive ???Reflections??? is inescapably about the life of Maurice Ravel ??? reflections by way of the piano music on an exceptionally private but immensely attractive man.
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