Valsos i danses

A concert by the Orquestra Simfònica Sant Cugat with a programme of waltzes, polkas and sardanas featuring works by Liszt, the Strauss family, Pau Casals and Salvador Brotons at L'Auditori de Cornellà.

The Orquestra Simfònica Sant Cugat (OSSC) performs this programme at L'Auditori de Cornellà, centred on dance forms such as the waltz, the polka and the sardana. It brings together works by Franz Liszt, the Strauss family, Pau Casals, Leroy Anderson and Salvador Brotons.

The pieces include Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, the waltz Music of the Spheres by Joseph Strauss and the fast polka Bahnfrei! by Eduard Strauss. Casals's sardana Sant Martí del Canigó and Brotons's Catalan Christmas carols (Nadales catalanes) provide the Catalan repertoire.

In the second half, the audience hears Anderson's Blue Bells of Scotland, the overture to The Gypsy Baron, the slow polka Fledermaus, the fast polka Vergnügungszug, The Blue Danube and the Radetzky March by Johann Strauss senior.