Ravel - Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin (practice room runthrough)

Sharing this tender and beautiful Menuet from Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin. It is one of one of those pieces I find so beautiful that I sometimes catch myself tearing up while playing from the deep expression and relevant background of this work. Each movement of Le Tombeau de Couperin is dedicated to friends of Ravel who were killed in World War 1, but, the mood of these pieces brings us to a place of memories and celebrates these individuals’ joy and enthusiasm for life, rather than mourning in grief.

"les morts sont déjà assez tristes dans leur silence éterne" - Maurice Ravel

(The dead are sad enough, in their eternal silence.)

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