Musical Selfies: Ravel, Mussorgsky and Verdi...Without Makeup!

My Facebook feed has been dotted in recent day with the latest social media craze.

For a good cause, female friends have been posting photographs of themselves without makeup.

Some actually look better that way, in my opinion (I know, nobody asked).

One can surely do the same in music.

Because often the famous versions of particular works are fleshed-out from sparser orchestrations, or chamber works, even piano sketches.

So, how do these works fare in what I hereby dub "musical selfies without makeup?"

I am, incidentally, indebted for some of these to friends on Facebook (appropriately enough)...

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