20th Century Waltz suggestions?

[Szykneij]

A little bit late, but I just came across a recording called "The Waltz Project - 17 Contemporary Waltzes for Piano" on the Nonesuch label. It's either out of print or not available at all on CD, but the pieces are:

Waltz - "In Memoriam - Maurice Ravel" by Robert Moran
Modern Love Waltz - Philip Glass
Minute Waltz (or 3/4 + 1/8) - Milton Babbit
A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen - Lou Harrison
Waltz - Roger Sessions
Titles Waltz: After Max Steiner - Joseph Fennimore
Music Box Waltz - Zygmunt Krauze
Red Garnet Waltz - Joan Tower
Sentimental Waltz - Alden Ashforth
Dejavalse - Tom Constanten
Valse Mirage - Robert Helps
Valse Perpetuelle ("The 45 R.P.M.") - Ivan Tcherenpin
Waltz - Alan Stout
Valse - Peter Gena
Two Hearts - Richard Feliciano
49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs - John Cage
For a Happy Occasion - Virgil Thomson

There also appears to be a follow-up issue on Albany still available at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Waltz-Project-Revisited-Waltzes-Piano/dp/B0006A9FQE/ref=sr_1_1/104-6478711-9931130?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1188610387&sr=1-1

[Maciek]

Music Box Waltz - Zygmunt Krauze

(slapping forehead) How could I forget?! (Though I prefer his Nightmare Tango...)

[val]

And what about Schönberg's Waltz for the piano, the fifth piece of his opus 23?

[Guido]

Strauss is the absolute king of waltzes. Richard that is... They're very obvious of course in Der Rosenkavalier but they are just as ubiquitous in many of his other works, such as Salome and then most notably Elektra.

[Cato]

If you can find it, there is a beautiful waltz in the score for Sergei Bondarchuk's movie version of War and Peace: the score is by the incredible Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov.

[Cato]

If you can find it, there is a beautiful waltz in the score for Sergei Bondarchuk's movie version of War and Peace: the score is by the incredible Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov.

I have found on YouTube an excerpt from the movie - which I highly recommend in its complete version, and in Russian if you do not mind subtitles, although the English dubbing was excellent - and the excerpt has the waltz near the last 3 minutes, although the introduction is fascinating to watch. 

Director Bondarchuk played the role of the shy Pierre Bezhukov who eventually asks Natasha Rostova to dance a waltz.

To see why Ovchinnikov really is Ovchinnikov:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9wdXxcVLDs&feature=related

[listener]

an interesting thread to resurrect for the newbies....
Coming to my mind are the Waltz for the Gemini in Lambert's Horoscope and Morton Gould's  Apple Waltzes suite.    Just missing the deadline (1892, 94) are the Concert Waltzes of Glazunov

[Maciek]

Ah, forgot all about YouTube.

Here are those two Kilar waltzes.

From Hoffman's Leper

From Wajda's The Promised Land

Music much better than the films it was written for (if you ask me). Though I'm surprised to find I don't enjoy it as much as I used to. Well, it's a gray, rainy day over here, so blame it on the weather.

[Opus106]

Just missing the deadline (1892, 94) are the Concert Waltzes of Glazunov

They and others of their ilk are invited here.

[Ten thumbs]

Just for fun really:
Eric Satie - Je te Veux (1904)

[DarkAngel]

Delightful 2CD collection from Chandos collecting together various waltzes from Jarvi's Shostakovich vast series of recordings, I love this collection