Alexander Kostritsa - Szymanowska: Complete Dances for Solo Piano (2015)

Tracklist

01. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 1. Polonaise in C Major
02. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 2. Polonaise in E Minor
03. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 3. Polonaise in A Major
04. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 4. Polonaise in F Minor
05. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 5. Valse in E-Flat Major
06. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 6. Valse in A Major
07. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 7. Valse in B-Flat Major
08. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 8. Valse in F Major
09. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 9. Anglaise in E-Flat Major
10. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 10. Anglaise in B-Flat Major
11. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 11. Anglaise in A-Flat Major
12. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 12. Anglaise in E-Flat Major
13. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 13. Contre-danse in B-Flat Major
14. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 14. Contre-danse in A-Flat Major
15. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 15. Quadrille in E-Flat Major
16. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 16. Quadrille in F Major
17. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 17. Mazurek in C Major
18. 18 Dances of Different Genres: No. 18. Cotillon in A-Flat Major
19. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 1
20. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 2
21. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 3
22. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 4
23. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 5
24. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 6
25. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 7
26. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 8
27. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 9
28. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 10
29. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 11
30. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 12
31. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 13
32. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 14
33. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 15
34. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 16
35. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 17
36. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 18
37. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 19
38. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 20
39. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 21
40. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 22
41. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 23
42. 24 Mazurkas: Mazurka No. 24
43. 6 Minuets: No. 1 in A Minor: Allegretto
44. 6 Minuets: No. 2 in G Minor: Quasi allegro
45. 6 Minuets: No. 3 in E-Flat Major: Moderato
46. 6 Minuets: No. 4 in G Minor: Vivace agitato
47. 6 Minuets: No. 5 in E Major: Allegro
48. 6 Minuets: No. 6 in D Minor: Vivace
49. Polonaise sur l'air national favori du feu Prince Joseph Poniatowsky
50. Danse polonaise
51. Cotillon ou valse figuree



Displaying exceptional musical precocity, the young pianist Maria Szymanowska proved a sensation in Warsaw’s salons, before moving to Paris where her fame spread. Greatly admired by her contemporaries, who included Beethoven, Cherubini, Field and Tomášek, she later also cast a spell over the elderly Goethe during one of her many long European tours. Before her early death, from cholera, she was employed by the Russian imperial court as First Pianist to the empress. Written for the aristocratic salons of the day, Szymanowska’s collections of dances are, for the most part, pleasing and light, yet always inventive. These beautifully written miniatures also include more challenging pieces such as the Polonaise No. 4 and the Mazurka No. 17 whose darker moments foreshadow the early German Romantics.

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