La Valse: Arrangements for Wind Orchestra | Haenssler Classic HC22068

La Valse: Arrangements for Wind Orchestra

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Label: Haenssler Classic

Cat No: HC22068

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 4th November 2022

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Maurice Ravel was interested not only in the Spanish bolero but also in the Viennese waltz. In March 1920 he completed the score of the work he consistently called La Valse, about which he later said in an interview "It is a dancing, spinning, almost hallucinating ecstasy, an increasingly passionate and exhausting whirl of dancers carried away in exuberance."

But there are also some grotesque distortions. They remind us that, in addition to the sonic glorification of the Belle Époque, this composition also represents dancing on a volcano that had already fizzled out by then.

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