Piano Dances

Description

Anna Vinnitskaya celebrates dance here, or rather the dances of composers from very different eras and styles: Ravel, Shostakovich, and Widmann. "In all these works, one can feel somewhat transported into the world of childhood. Because I believe that each of these three composers reflects their own," says the pianist. In his Valses nobles et sentimentales, Ravel pays tribute to Schubert. A few years later, he transcribes his ballet music titled "La Valse" for solo piano, a work with "whirling clouds" that "reveal, through clearings, couples of waltzers." "Shostakovich's Danses de poupées remind me of the Soviet cartoons from my childhood," Anna Vinnitskaya recounts... "They also make me think of Mozart: they are clear as diamonds, sincere, and beautiful." The Zirkustänze ("Circus Dances") composed by Jörg Widmann in 2012, a brilliant kaleidoscope of emotions and parodies, completes this program.