Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

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Ravel needed only two weeks of intensive concentration to orchestrate his piano suite Valses nobles et sentimentales , which was given its premiere performance in March 1911. Consisting of seven waltzes and one epilogue, the work stamped Ravel as a creative personality whose masterpiece breathed an "unbelievably new kind of musicality and incredibly intensive poetry." Let us not forget that this was twelve years before La Valse , with which it shares a number of similarities.