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Clair de lune
‘Moonlight’: Debussy's floating, impressionist piano piece, delicate as a watercolour.
💡 Did you know? The title comes from a poem by Paul Verlaine.
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Which piece is playing?
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Boléro
A single theme, endlessly repeated over a hypnotic drum rhythm, building for fifteen minutes.
💡 Did you know? Ravel himself half-jokingly called the Boléro ‘a piece with no music in it at all’.
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Rhapsody in Blue
The wailing clarinet glissando opening fuses jazz and symphony into the sound of 1920s New York.
💡 Did you know? At the 1924 premiere Gershwin partly kept the piano solo in his head and improvised.
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