This week, David Dubal concludes his exploration of the waltz, tracing its history from country to country across piano keyboards. In this final segment, you’ll hear rare waltzes from Russia, popular strains from old Vienna, and the host himself performs a little number by Erik Satie.
Program Playlist:
Claude Debussy: "Valse Romantique"
Walter Gieseking
RTVE Música
Nikolai Titov: Three Waltzes
Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina
BMG Classics
Leopold Godowsky: "Alt Wien"
Marc-André Hamelin
Hyperion
Johann Strauss II: "Frühling Stimme"
Grigory Ginzgurg
Arlecchino
Frederic Chopin: Waltz in A Flat, Op. 42
Josef Hofmann
VAI Audio
Percy Grainger: English Waltz
Richard and John Contiguglia
Gemini CD Classics
Maurice Ravel: Selections from Valses nobles et sentimentales
Heidi Lowy
Bayer Records
Anton Arensky: Suite No. 1 for Two Pianos, Op. 15: Valse
Lyubov Bruk & Mark Taimanov
Phillips BMG
Erik Satie: "Je te veux"
David Dubal
ArkivMusic
Alexander Scriabin: Valse, Op. 38
Stanley Waldoff
Musical Heritage Society