Classical Music | Circle of Waltzes: Piano Works by Schubert, Chopin, Debussy, and More

Inga Kashakashvili and Anna Keiserman, piano duo.

Program:
Scott Joplin (1868-1917) Bethena, A Concert Waltz
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) Waltz, Op. 38 No.9
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Waltz in B minor, No.6 D.145
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) Valse Oubliee No.1 in F Minor
Claude Debussy (1862-1918) La Plus Que Lente, L.121
Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915) Waltz in A flat Major, Op.38
Valentin Silvestrov (b.1937) Waltz
Vladimir Rebikov (1866-1920) Waltz from “Yolka” The Christmas Tree
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Waltz No. 2 “Son Binocle”
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Waltz from Cinderella, Op.102 No.1
Richard Danielpour (b.1956) Waiting for Chopin
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Waltz in A Minor, Op. 34 No.2
George Oakley (b.1979) Night Waltz
Arvo Pärt (b.1935) Ukuaru Valss
Dmitri Schostakovich (1906-1975) Waltz – Joke
James Carlson (b.1946) Waltz
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) Valse da Dor

About the performers
Pianist Inga Kashakashvili has performed at major venues around the world, such as Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Le Poisson Rouge, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Center, Barbican Centre (London), Opera House and Tbilisi Center for Music and Culture (Georgia) and more.

About the Program
In summer 1881 Franz Liszt composed a work that he called Valse oubliée (Forgotten waltz) in a letter to his publisher. The work is reminiscent of the appealing piano waltzes that the composer used to write when he was younger – although there is a certain distance to the usual waltz style. Liszt by no means renounces virtuosity and elegance, but rather infuses these characteristics with nostalgia and irony by embedding typical melodic and rhythmic elements of salon waltzes in innovative, harmonically alienating progressions.

La plus que lente, L. 121 (The even slower waltz) by Claude Debussy was debuted at the New Carlton Hotel in Paris, where it was transcribed for strings and performed by a popular Romany band.

Scriabin's Waltz in A flat Major, Op.38 opens with rich, Scriabin-esque theme that seems to exude heavy perfumes or remind the senses of flowers slightly wilting in the hot sun. The melody is sweet and leisurely, quirky and hesitant, but can suddenly turn passionate and fiery.This waltz will appeal not only to the composer's admirers, but to a fairly wide audience of piano music lovers.