Piano Dance

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0089408054921 Label: Telarc Manufacturer: Telarc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Telarc Release Date: 2001-04-04 Running Time: 72 Studio: Telarc
Editorial Reviews: This is a truly fascinating recording, and it is fascinating 23 times. Gloria Cheng has put together a series of 20th-century dance-linked piano miniatures which repeatedly surprises and delights. If you go in for playing "spot the tune" with your friends, this should keep you going for months, with everything from a Paul Hindemith shimmy to a Philip Glass waltz. It is an area of repertory that lends itself to fast virtuosic material--of which there is no shortage--but it is not all helter-skelter. To put your foot on the brake try Mompou's Cancion y Danza no.6, three and a half minutes of indolent Spanish lyricism at its best. Another slow number is Donald R Davis' intriguingly titled Illicit Felicity, a mambo written for a lesbian thriller movie. But probably the prize for wackiest title goes to Per Norgard for A Tortoise's Tango (Without Jealousy). Many of the pieces last just a minute or two, the only one stretching much beyond four minutes being the nine-minute concluding Conga by Miguel del Aguila, who plays his own "spot the tune" with multiple musical quotations as he portrays a dance of death through the fires of hell. --Keith Clarke