Composer: Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Jörg Widmann
Performer: Anna Vinnitskaya
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA1044
Release: 2024
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Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
01. No. 1, Modéré, très franc
02. No. 2, Assez lent, avec une expression intense
03. No. 3, Modéré
04. No. 4, Assez animé
05. No. 5, Presque lent, dans un sentiment intime
06. No. 6, Vif
07. No. 7, Moins vif
08. No. 8, Épilogue. Lent
Shostakovich: Puppentänze
09. No. 1, Lyrischer Walzer
10. No. 2, Gavotte
11. No. 3, Romanze
12. No. 4, Polka
13. No. 5, Walzer-Scherzo
14. No. 6, Leierkasten
Widmann: Zirkustänze
15. No. 1, Fanfare
16. No. 2, Boogie-Woogie
17. No. 3, Erster Walzer
18. No. 4, Vier Strophen vom Heimweh
19. No. 5, Valse bavaroise
20. No. 6, Valse sentimentale
21. No. 7, Kinderreim
22. No. 8, Karussell-Walzer
23. No. 9, Hebräische Melodie
24. No. 10, Venezianisches Gondellied
25. No. 11, Bayerisch-babylonischer Marsch
26. Ravel: La Valse
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 Zirkustanze (Circus Dances) composed by Jorg Widmann in 2012, a brilliant kaleidoscope of emotions and parodies, round off the programme.