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Christopher O'Riley: Reliving A Love For Ravel

I played Maurice Ravel 's piano suite Le Tombeau de Couperin at my very first conservatory recital. Looking back, I'm hard-pressed to imagine a better training piece, with its inherent challenges of technique, style, color and rhetoric. Full Article at NPR

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