Maria Szymanowska - Complete Dances for Solo Piano
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Label: Grand Piano
Cat No: GP685
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 27th November 2015
Contents
Works
Cotillon ou Valse figureeDances (18) de different genre
Danse Polonaise
Mazurkas or National Polish Dances (24)
Menuets (6)
Polonaise pour le pianoforte sur l'air national favori de feu Prince Joseph Poniatowsky
Artists
Alexander Kostritsa (piano)Natsumi Shibagaki (piano)
Works
Cotillon ou Valse figureeDances (18) de different genre
Danse Polonaise
Mazurkas or National Polish Dances (24)
Menuets (6)
Polonaise pour le pianoforte sur l'air national favori de feu Prince Joseph Poniatowsky
Artists
Alexander Kostritsa (piano)Natsumi Shibagaki (piano)
About
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.
Alexander Kostritsa received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. He is a prize winner of international piano competitions, including the Premio Rovere d’Oro (Italy, 2007, 1st prize), the Slavic Music Festival (Ukraine, 2007, laureate), and the Paul Badura-Skoda (Spain, 2010, finalist). He made his international début when he was eight years old, with a concert tour to Japan.
Since then he has been performing as a soloist in Italy, France, Germany, Spain, South Korea and the United States. He has appeared with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra 'The Seasons', the Kursk University Orchestra, the Vidin Philharmonic and other orchestras. He studied with Mikhail Petukhov in Moscow and with Antonio Pompa-Baldi in Cleveland.
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