RavelÂ's Â"Valses nobles et sentimentalesÂ" created a stir when they were anonymously premiered in ParisÂ'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 Â"ÂŒuvres Complètes de Gabriel FauréÂ", 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 pianist Alexandre Tharaud, one of todayÂ's leading interpreters of RavelÂ's music. Commentaries by pianists closely associated with Ravel, such as Lucian Garban, Vlado Perlemuter, Robert Casadesus and Jacques Février are also included.