Description:

Charles Dutoit leads a program of changing musical times, of beginnings and endings threaded with dancing. The concert begins with Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, which revived the career of Paul Wittgenstein, who lost an arm in World War I. That same war also signaled the end of the waltz as Europe's favorite dance form--and the concert ends with Ravel's glorious train-wreck of a waltz, full of Old World charm, Viennese melody, and modernity gone mad. In between come Rachmaninoff's last major orchestral work, in suitably dancing form, and one of Franz Liszt's most animated creations, the Dance of Death for piano and orchestra.

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Audio Samples:

Ravel - Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

Concert Enhancements:

Free Pre-Concert Conversation one hour prior to concert (About Pre-Concert Conversations)

Program Notes:

June 06, 2009 Download Adobe Acrobat to view Program Notes.

Series Information:

Part of the 2009 Celebration Collection, and package Saturday 4A

Part of the 2009 Connoisseur Collection, and package Saturday 3D

Part of the 2009 Great Pianists Collection, and package Great Pianist Series

Part of the 2009 Weekend Collection, and package Saturday 4A