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“La Valse”
Carl Maria von Weber (arranged by Carl Tausig)
1. Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

Franz Liszt
2. Soirées de Vienne No. 6 (from 9 Valses-Caprices after Schubert)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arranged by Mikhail Pletnev)
Concert Suite from “The Nutcracker”
3. March
4. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
5. Tarantella
6. Intermezzo
7. Trepak (Russian Dance)
8. Tea (Chinese Dance)
9. Pas de Deux – Andante Maestoso

Igor Stravinsky (transcribed for solo piano by Stravinsky)
Trois Mouvements de Pètrouchka
10. I. Dance russe
11. II. Chez Pétrouchka
12. III. La semaine grasse

Maurice Ravel (transcribed by Ravel)
13. La Valse, poème choréographique pour orchestra

La Valse ©
In 2004 Etsuko Hirose again worked with producer Nobuo Nakazato on a project which was to be called La Valse, named after Ravel’s solo piano arrangement of his orchestral work of the same name, which depicts the Viennese waltz in its both swinging and superficial state but lurking into an abyss of crumbling dreams. The piece, which can often outshine the original orchestra version, appears as the last track on this second release. Again, on this Denon release, the piano works selected are all composed by outstanding pianists.
Carl Tausig, not even reaching 30 years of age, and said to be the most talented of all the many Liszt pupils, turns the Carl Maria von Weber dance into a piano piece which almost outshines the
original Weber orchestral colours. On a less exalted level are the Schubert dances which Liszt arranged for solo piano – the sixth especially becoming staple repertoire for the 20th century traveling virtuoso pianists.
Vladimir Horowitz selected this charming gem in his 1986 Moscow return concert. Another Russian with a piano technique to die for, and who became a fine conductor in his own right, Mikhail Pletnev, who truly enjoyed making scenes from Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker into little dancing pearls on the piano. The often tantalizingly short glimpses are like a suite with outstretched legs and arms that dance in the most endearing way.
From sugary sweetness to the brutality of Stravinsky ballet Petrouchka, here in an arrangement for solo piano penned by Stravinsky himself. Not particularly known as a virtuoso on the piano, Stravinsky nevertheless had a masterly understanding of what the ten digits could do; the rhythmic intensity and the hammering chords are in all senses of the word shocking. The arrangement was dedicated to the Polish pianist Artur Rubinstein, who, with his sensible and soft approach to the finer sides of the piano literature, must have been more than overwhelmed.

RELEASE DATE: November 2024

CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 993

EAN: 5709499992951

Product Type

19, CD, MP3, FLAC