Chopin - Grande Valse Brillante Op. 18 no. 1

"The Waltz ...was written -- ostensibly -- in a form consisting of a succession of dance themes -- now alike, now incongruous. In essence, however, it is an integral whole, in which one theme passes imperceptibly into another, ends, then returns, building up the drama in grand style."

--The Fryderyk Chopin Institute