Dance - Works for Piano Kathryn Stott

• 1 No. 1. March 01:31
• 2 No. 2. Waltz 01:43
• 3 No. 3. Polka 00:57
• 4 3 Danzas argentinas, Op. 2: No. 2. Danza de la moza donosa 04:21
• 5 No. 1. Bot-tanc (Stick dance) 01:03
• 6 No. 2. Braul: Allegro 00:24
• 7 No. 3. Topogo (In one spot) 00:49
• 8 No. 4. Bucsumi tanc (Dance of Buchum) 00:40
• 9 No. 5. Roman polka (Romanian Polka) 00:29
• 10 No. 6. Aprozo (Fast dance) 00:51
• 11 Dumka in C minor, Op. 12, No. 1, B. 136 04:10
• 12 6 Morceaux, Op. 51: No. 2. Polka peu dansante 04:10
• 13 Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 (version for piano) 05:11
• 14 Dansa negra 03:32
• 15 Danzas Afro-Cubanas: La conga de media noche 03:04
• 16 Espana, Op. 165: II. Tango 02:12
• 17 Old Style 02:39
• 18 Milonga del Angel 06:36
• 19 Valsa da dor 04:54
• 20 10 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No 1 in G minor (version for piano) 03:04
• 21 Je te veux 05:39
• 22 Tango 03:08
• 23 Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 05:09
• Total Runtime 01:06:16

Info for Dance - Works for Piano

This eclectic repertoire of dances is completed by the premiere of Old Style by Graham Fitkin, written for Kathryn Stott in celebration of her landmark anniversaries this year: ‘For the past ten years, Graham has been writing the most fantastic music for me – always challenging but with such a fantastic energy. This piece is no exception and I feel its inclusion is an important part of this international and rather special journey.’

“Kathryn Stott's enjoyable and warmly recorded recital of dance pieces has a Latin-American bias, an idiom for which she has an evident empathy. Stott shapes the sultry rhythms and sensuous harmonies with allure and velvety touch.” BBC Music Magazine

Dmitry Shostakovich: 3 Fantastic Dances, Op. 5
No. 1. March
No. 2. Waltz
No. 3. Polka
Alberto Ginastera: 3 Danzas argentinas, Op. 2
3 Danzas argentinas, Op. 2: No. 2. Danza de la moza donosa
Bela Bartok: 6 Romanian Folk Dances, BB 68
No. 1. Bot-tanc (Stick dance)
No. 2. Braul: Allegro
No. 3. Topogo (In one spot)
No. 4. Bucsumi tanc (Dance of Buchum)
No. 5. Roman polka (Romanian Polka)
No. 6. Aprozo (Fast dance)
Antonin Dvorak: Dumka in C minor, Op. 12, No. 1, B. 136
Dumka in C minor, Op. 12, No. 1, B. 136
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: 6 Morceaux, Op. 51
6 Morceaux, Op. 51: No. 2. Polka peu dansante
Jean Sibelius: Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 (version for piano)
Valse triste, Op. 44, No. 1 (version for piano)
Camargo Guarnieri: Dansa negra
Dansa negra
Ernesto Lecuona: Danzas Afro-Cubanas
Danzas Afro-Cubanas: La conga de media noche
Isaac Albeniz: Espana, Op. 165
Espana, Op. 165: II. Tango
Graham Fitkin: Old Style
Old Style
Astor Piazzolla: Milonga del Angel
Milonga del Angel
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Valsa da dor
Valsa da dor
Johannes Brahms: 10 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1 (version for piano)

10 Hungarian Dances, WoO 1: No 1 in G minor (version for piano)
Erik Satie: Je te veux

Je te veux
Igor Stravinsky: Tango

Tango
Fryderyk Chopin: Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4
Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4

Kathryn Stott is recognised internationally as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative musicians and among today's most engaging pianists. She is in demand for a wide variety of chamber music alliances, playing with some of the world’s leading instrumentalists, as well as appearing on major international concert platforms in recitals and concerto performances. She has also directed several distinctive concert series and festivals and has developed an extensive and exceptionally varied catalogue of recordings. Born in Lancashire, she studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music and was a prize-winner at the Leeds International Piano Competition 1978. In addition to her busy career as a performer worldwide, she is visiting professor at both the Royal Academy of Music, London and Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester.

She enjoys associations with many orchestras and is a favoured partner of many distinguished chamber musicians, This season she celebrates a fruitful quarter-of-a-century partnership with Yo-Yo Ma, in concerts, on tours and on recordings. She has developed shared musical interests with an eclectic group of performers and has a close involvement with many leading string quartets. She has made nearly a dozen appearances at the BBC Proms to which she returns next summer.

A particular interest in contemporary music has led to several world premieres. She is a remarkable exponent of tango and other Latin dance music, reflected in her collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma and leading South American musicians on the Grammy Award-winning Sony CD ‘Soul of the Tango’ and its successor ‘Obrigado Brazil’. In the recording studio she has created a large and eclectic body of work including concertos and solo repertoire on a wide variety of labels including many discs of solo pieces; chamber music CDs with Yo-Yo Ma, Truls Mørk, Christian Poltéra, the Hermitage Piano Trio and, most recently, with cellist Guy Johnston, (‘Milo’/Orchid Classics). In 2009 she was signed as an exclusive Chandos artist for all her solo piano work. Current and forthcoming recordings include three discs with the Doric String Quartet.

Kathryn Stott has been the artistic vision behind several major festivals and concert series. ‘Piano 2000’ and ‘Piano 2003’ ( Bridgewater Hall, Manchester) established her reputation as an astute programmer; and following the earlier ‘Fauré and the French Connection’ she was appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Government. In 2008 she was appointed Artistic Director of the Manchester Chamber Concerts Society. She is Guest Artistic Director, 2010 and 2011, of the chamber festival, Incontri in Terra di Siena. Current and future plans include tours of the United States and Japan with Yo-Yo Ma, and a tour of the USA with the Assad Brothers, while her busy schedule takes her to a range of international flagship festivals including Este (Italy), Storioni (Holland), Vinterfest (Sweden), Oxford, Hardanger and Risør (both Norway) and Kharkov (Ukraine) as well as Salzburg.

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