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A musical journey to Ravel's La Valse

Sara Mohr-Pietsch takes her musical travelogue towards Ravel's dazzling La Valse. Ports of call include Johann Strauss's Blue Danube and Bernstein's West Side Story Overture.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch takes her musical travelogue towards Ravel's dazzling short orchestral work, La Valse, composed as a celebration of the old-school waltzes of Strauss's Vienna but which may also have reflected the horror of the First World War. Along the way, Sara stops to hear Johann Strauss's On The Blue Danube, Chopin's Minute Waltz, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to West Side Story, Straussiana by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Cecile Chaminade's Valse Romantique and much more besides.

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Broadcast

  • Sunday 13:30