This post marks No. 100 for BG & the PIANO, officially making it my longest blog, and I figured to do it on one of my favorite piano pieces by one of my favorite performers...

...or it was mere coincidence that it worked out this way.

Claude Debussy wrote the waltz, La plus que lente for piano in 1910. It was a late incidental composition that holds reference to the popular tune at the time La valse lente, Debussy's title can be translated into "the even slower waltz." It is a light, sentimental piece, the italian term morbidezza accompanying the tempo at the beginning means softness or gentleness.

When asked about the piece, Debussy said, "Let us think of cabarets, let us think also of the numerous 'five o'clocks' where the beautiful feminine listeners of whom I thought, meet."

Arthur Rubinstein performs: