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Ravel-Valses nobles et sentimentales

Year

2013

Language

ENGLISH

Duration

45m

Rating

TVPG

Author

null

Publication Information

The Great Courses

Summary

Explore the evolution of the waltz as a popular dance and musical form, and how the Viennese waltz, paradoxically, became a metaphor for both civility and tragedy. Experience the rich harmonic textures and huge expressive range of these eight pieces, from passionate exuberance to dreamlike wistfulness, as Ravel evokes the waltz as a memory of a vanished world.

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