20th Century Waltz suggestions?

[rw1883]

This MIGHT be an interesting topic...I'm looking for 20th (or 21st) Century waltzes members find worth knowing beside the following:

Shostakovich: Waltz#2 from Jazz Suite #2
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes
Ravel: La Valse, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales
Lehar: Too many...
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances (2nd Mvt.)

Thank you for your suggestions...

Paul

[Drasko]

Prokofiev - Waltz Suite for Orchestra op. 110

http://www.prokofiev.org/catalog/work.cfm?WorkID=169&s1=23,24,36,33,1

[rw1883]

what's wrong with 19 century waltzes? The golden age of waltz? the Strauss Dynasty?

nvm, actually, Shostakovich has written alot more waltzes than you think, there are plenty of waltz music in his film scores.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with 19th century waltzes...I love them.  Just looking to expand my palette.

I will look into the film scores of Shostakovich...the Chailly CD is on my list.

[bwv 1080]

My favorite 20th Century waltz:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BlY9wNKYZI

(how many pieces of 3/4 funk are there?)

[Scriptavolant]

i love waltzes, for relaxing purposes, after a day of intense listening of Bruckner and Mahler, i need to relax my ears by listening to some simple harmonies

From which torture camp are you posting, dear?

[Scriptavolant]

who said it was torture?

Nevermind 

[Joe Barron]

Frank Zappa's "Sofa," recorded in several different instrumentations. Best is the sax arrangment on Zappa in New York.

The last movement of the Nielsen Sixth also includes a rather deranged waltz, though it might not really belig under the heading of a genre.

[The Mad Hatter]

Another throw-in for Shostakovich: the Prelude from the D flat Major Prelude and Fugue of Op. 87. Though I'm not sure it works divorced from the fugue...

[Maciek]

Khachaturian's waltz from The Masquerade is a classic. And so are the waltzes in the Prokofiev suite Milos posted.

Some of Kilar's earlier soundtracks contain great waltzes, notably Wajda's Ziemia obiecana (Promised Land) and Hoffman's Trędowata (The Lepper) - the latter is uncannily like Prokofiev's Cinderella waltz. They're both available on an Olympia CD of his film music.

Marek Stachowski has written a very nice suite 5 Little Waltzes for piano.

[paul]

Fred Lerdahl - Waltzes
Milton Babbitt - Minute Waltz
Mario Davidovsky - Simple Dances

[mahlertitan]

Dimitri Shostakovich - the Gadfly

[BachQ]

Waltz in D Minor (Elder's Dance) by Harry Ebbeson III

[m_gigena]

My favorite.

[Symphonien]

Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and Strings

Fig. 23 - Tempo di Valse to the Cadenza.

[Maciek]

Oh yes, and there's an excellent one in Schnittke's Piano Quintet (2nd movement) too!

[Maciek]

And the Schnittke brought another Shostakovich piece to my mind: the 2nd movement of the Piano Concerto (Concerto for piano, trumpet and orchestra). Breathtakingly beautiful music.

Also, there's the extremely famous Valse triste by Sibelius.

[quintett op.57]

Sibelius : valse triste
Atterberg : last movement of Sym 5

[mahlertitan]

Carl Michael Ziehrer

[Szykneij]

There's a nice waltz movement (Valse d'amour) in Max Reger's Ballet Suite for Orchestra in D Major, Op. 130 that was written in 1913.

[pjme]

Frédéric Devreese : 22 waltzes for piano - played by Luc Devos