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* Reflections: The Piano Music of Maurice Ravel, by Paul Roberts. Amadeus Press, 2012. www.halleonard.com; 238 pp., $24.99.
Kudos to Paul Roberts on this excellent new companion to the study of Ravel's piano works. The British pianist and author has given us a must-read volume on both the historical and practical pianistic aspects of this enigmatic composer.
Although not a biography in the traditional sense, Roberts takes us through all of the piano works of Ravel in an illuminating journey, revealing the background, influences and impulses behind the composition of each. In...