Our statistics for 2022 show that the French composer's work has dethroned the great hits of classical music. Is this a one-off triumph or the start of a lasting dominance? We explain...
Written for a large virtuoso orchestra, Ravel himself reduced La Valse's teeming complexity to a very difficult piano solo – it is not uncommon to find “complete” live or recorded surveys of the composer’s piano music which simply omit it. But it held no terror for this artist.
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