Ravel La Valse's guest appearances

Ravel La Valse

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Copland Appalachian

Leonard Bernstein

Charles Ives

Richard Rodgers

Steve Reich

Jessye Norman

Emma Kirkby

Henry Purcell

Galina Ustvolskaya

John Cage

Alfred Brendel

Neville Marriner

Vasily Petrenko

Jonathan Dove

Emily Howard

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Debussy La Mer

David Afkham conducts landmarks of early 20th-century French music, including Debussy’s La mer, a shimmering depiction of the sea and its many moods, and Ravel’s La valse, in which a misty waltz morphs into a delirious portrait of a vanished age. Turning to Russia, Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman takes on Shostakovich’s alternately biting and poignant First Violin Concerto.Learn more: cso.org/performances/22-23/cso-classical/debussy-la-mer-and-ravel-la-valse

David Afkham conducts landmarks of early 20th-century French music, including Debussy’s La mer, a shimmering depiction of the sea and its many moods, and Ravel’s La valse, in which a misty waltz morphs into a delirious portrait of a vanished age. Turning to Russia, Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman takes on Shostakovich’s alternately biting and poignant First Violin Concerto.<br><br>Learn more: <a href="http://cso.org/performances/22-23/cso-classical/debussy-la-mer-and-ravel-la-valse" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">cso.org/performances/22-23/cso-classical/debussy-la-mer-and-ravel-la-valse</a>

CSO Program Notes: Debussy La mer & Ravel La valse

In 1906, Maurice Ravel made some sketches for a tribute to Johann Strauss, the Waltz King. By the time he got back to it, World War I had ravaged Europe, and Ravel's tribute had turned into something much darker.

William Mival compares recordings of Ravel's La Valse and makes a personal recommendation