S�chsische Bl�serphilharmonie - La Valse

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 Iater 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 Epoque, this composition also represents dancing on a volcano that had already fizzled out by then.