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Gwendolyn Mok
One of the last serious pupils of Ravel's preferred pianist, Vlado Perlemuter, Gwendolyn Mok brings decades of experience researching and performing Ravel's works to this lesson on the Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a Dead Princess").<br><br>For Mok, Ravel's Pavane demonstrates the composer's reserved character and the quality of "pudeur" or restraint that imbues his music with such distinction and beauty. Mok begins by focusing on articulation and balance in the "plucked" accompaniment figures, before showing how to layer the singing line on top. She goes on to emphasize the importance of developing a "ravishing tone," after Perlemuter, and demonstrates techniques for achieving this with advice on pedal, fingering, and voicing. Zooming out, Mok analyzes the beauty of the work's form and reveals the special moments in the C section where, for just a brief moment, Ravel loses that sense of restraint in favor of a momentary outburst of passion.
Pavane pour une infante défunte
One of the last serious pupils of Ravel's preferred pianist, Vlado Perlemuter, Gwendolyn Mok brings decades of experience researching and performing Ravel's works to this lesson on the Pavane pour une infante défunte ("Pavane for a Dead Princess").
For Mok, Ravel's Pavane demonstrates the composer's reserved character and the quality of "pudeur" or restraint that imbues his music with such distinction and beauty. Mok begins by focusing on articulation and balance in the "plucked" accompaniment figures, before showing how to layer the singing line on top. She goes on to emphasize the importance of developing a "ravishing tone," after Perlemuter, and demonstrates techniques for achieving this with advice on pedal, fingering, and voicing. Zooming out, Mok analyzes the beauty of the work's form and reveals the special moments in the C section where, for just a brief moment, Ravel loses that sense of restraint in favor of a momentary outburst of passion.
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Unlock Course →Gwendolyn Mok is a consummate recording artist and concert pianist, and professor at San Jose State University. The last pupil of Vlado Perlemuter, Mok is one the few remaining heirs to the distinctive artistic legacy of Maurice Ravel.
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