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Topic: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.  (Read 2260 times)

Offline quasimodo

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Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
on: January 10, 2005, 06:44:19 PM
I adore to listen to this set of tasteful pieces, to which the composer associates "The always renewed pleasure of a useless occupation".

At their first interpretation on stage, a big part of the public booed because of the dissonant harmonies.

Do someone play them on this forum ? And anyway, how do you find them ?
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #1 on: January 10, 2005, 08:00:06 PM
wonderful works!
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #2 on: January 11, 2005, 11:14:56 AM
You have good taste!  Anyway, I've only played the slow waltz.
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #3 on: January 11, 2005, 12:26:34 PM
 Formidable! I definately recommend them
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #4 on: January 11, 2005, 01:42:41 PM
Love those pieces!
Anyone knows where to find Argerich's recording of them on cd? I've seen them on LP but never found them on cd.
The orchestral version is pretty cool too.
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #5 on: January 11, 2005, 09:23:10 PM
I heard the first performance of the Valses was anonymous, the audience didn't know who had written the work. Most of the audience guessed it was Satie....
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #6 on: January 12, 2005, 08:03:29 AM
Quote from: DLu on January 11, 2005, 09:23:10 PM
I heard the first performance of the Valses was anonymous, the audience didn't know who had written the work. Most of the audience guessed it was Satie....

Yes, true. And it shows, IMHO, that the audience was not very good at music  ;D...
Ravel's compostions (including these Valses) are way more elaborated than Satie's (I have nothing against Satie).
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #7 on: January 12, 2005, 08:59:47 PM
 love them, absolutely love them ,  both the piano and the orchestal version,
i absolutely love it at normal tempo that is the one at which most pianists play it, but  also i heard pogorelich's interpretation of it, which is wayyyyyyyy slower , like, and its the weirdest interpretation i heard of it, but i really liked it as well, it was really different,
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Re: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (Ravel) : do you like them.
Reply #8 on: January 12, 2005, 11:58:20 PM
Anybody heard de Laroccha's interpretation?
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