Ravel’s La Valse is a kind of “conceptual art” piece of music that plots the birth, life and death of a dance-form. But did the intervention of World War 1 affect it’s ending?
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Research:
George Benjamin on La Valse:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/i241890
https://borisgiltburg.com/CMFA/ravels-la-valse-a-personal-interpretation/
Glyn Maxwell: On Poetry:
Music
Ravel: La Valse
Ravel: Bolero
Tchaikovksy Waltz from Sleeping Beauty:
Johann Strauss II: Wiener Blut Waltz
Johann Strauss II: Blue Danube Waltz
Die Fledermaus Overture:
Ravel : Menuet Antique
Landler:
Walzer:
Also check out Yuja Wang’s amazing performance of the piano version:
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faAacaaA-kI