Anna Vinnitskaya - Piano Dances (2024)

Anna Vinnitskaya celebrates dance, or rather the dances of composers from very different periods and styles: Ravel, Shostakovich and Widmann. ‘In all these works, you can feel in some way transported to the world of childhood. Because I believe the childhoods of each of these three composers are reflected there’, says the pianist. In his Valses nobles et sentimentales , Ravel paid tribute to Schubert. A few years later, he transcribed for solo piano his ballet score La Valse , in which ‘billowing clouds part from time to time, allowing us to glimpse waltzing couples’. Shostakovich’s Dances of the Dolls make me think of the Soviet cartoons of my childhood’, says Anna Vinnitskaya. ‘They also remind me of Mozart: they are as bright as diamonds, sincere and beautiful.’ The Zirkustänze (Circus Dances) composed by Jörg Widmann in 2012, a brilliant kaleidoscope of emotions and parodies, round off the programme.

Tracklist
01 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 1, Modéré, très franc
02 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 2, Assez lent, avec une expression intense
03 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 3, Modéré
04 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 4, Assez animé
05 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 5, Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
06 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 6, Vif
07 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 7, Moins vif
08 - Valses nobles et sentimentales, M. 61_ No. 8, Épilogue. Lent
09 - Puppentänze_ No. 1, Lyrischer Walzer
10 - Puppentänze_ No. 2, Gavotte
11 - Puppentänze_ No. 3, Romanze
12 - Puppentänze_ No. 4, Polka
13 - Puppentänze_ No. 5, Walzer-Scherzo
14 - Puppentänze_ No. 6, Leierkasten
15 - Zirkustänze_ No. 1, Fanfare
16 - Zirkustänze_ No. 2, Boogie-Woogie
17 - Zirkustänze_ No. 3, Erster Walzer
18 - Zirkustänze_ No. 4, Vier Strophen vom Heimweh
19 - Zirkustänze_ No. 5, Valse bavaroise
20 - Zirkustänze_ No. 6, Valse sentimentale
21 - Zirkustänze_ No. 7, Kinderreim
22 - Zirkustänze_ No. 8, Karussell-Walzer
23 - Zirkustänze_ No. 9, Hebräische Melodie
24 - Zirkustänze_ No. 10, Venezianisches Gondellied
25 - Zirkustänze_ No. 11, Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch
26 - La valse, M. 72