Philzuid

"An increasingly passionate and exhausting whirlwind of dancers is brought to life and swept along by the waltz." With those words, Maurice Ravel tried to explain to a Dutch journalist what La valse meant to him. Wasn't it about the end of an era, wasn't it a rousing dream about death and decadence? Yes, you can interpret it like that, but above all Ravel brought a brilliant French ode to the Viennese waltz. 
This French-oriented program, full of orchestral colors and rousing melodies, is in excellent hands with Philzuid's up-and-coming Taiwanese maestro. With piano grandmaster Denis Kozhukhin in Rachmaninov's devilishly virtuosic Paganini Rhapsody.