15 VANESSA WAGNER & WILHEM LATCHOUMIA Vanessa Wagner: And that creates the impression of a rather sombre melancholy, music that is at once radiant and tormented. Lindaraja is a piece as suave as it is strange. That’s what made us want to place it just before Ravel’s unsettling La Valse. How do you view the dramatic tension of La Valse? Wilhem Latchoumia: You can perceive the shadow of war through the rumblings and dark colours of the score. And you get carried away by its absolutely dizzying movement, which resembles a huge wave. Vanessa Wagner: Every time I play La Valse, I think of the story of the Titanic, the moment when the ship began to sink and, probably, men and women were still dancing despite the impending tragedy. That’s what is suggested by the harmonies, the dissonances, the rhythms and the constant use of the bottom notes of the keyboard in Ravel’s work.
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