Ravel’s “Valses nobles et sentimentales” created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in Paris’s Société nationale indépendante in 1911: many listeners thought they were by Satie, or even Kodály!

For our new Urtext edition of this work, the famed musicologist Nicolas Southon, a co-editor of the “Œuvres Complètes de Gabriel Fauré”, has examined a large body of sources to present a musical text with many new readings.

The edition contains fingering and performance notes by the French ...