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Why did you embark on this anthology of waltzes?
Aldo Ciccolini
: I’d been toying with the idea of this recording for a long time. It
amused me to mix and match all these different pieces, some of them serious,
others very tuneful and even popular.
With this disc, you’ve produced the most varied programme of your entire
recording career: thirteen works and thirteen composers. How is your
recital structured?
A.C.
: It’s organised around two pillars, the most extended pieces on the
programme, two waltzes that are extremely difficult and at the same time of great
interest: Fauré’s third
Valse-Caprice
op.59, which propels us into the environment of
a certain Parisian aristocracy, and Gabriel Pierné’s suite
Viennoise
, very different in
character, which comes very close to the world of the Folies Bergère.