24 CON ELEGANZA What does the waltz that concludes your programme bring to the table? Luxuriance. The same kind of lushness that is to be found in many of his later works. It could be considered a brilliant, virtuoso little bubble in the composer's catalogue, but it is twofold. The venomous side that came to the fore in the Fantaisie is pronounced and insidious here, beneath an extremely charming, elegant surface. I compare it to a rose with an enchanting but poisonous scent. A temptress, it doesn’t immediately reveal the way it will transform, moving towards the excess and madness of its cascade of octaves. It’s a waltz that is dreamed, fantasised, something like how Ravel conceived it on a larger scale.
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