Szymanowska / Kostritsa,Alex - Szymanowska: Complete Dances for Solo Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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 Tamasek, she later also cast a spell over the elderly Goethe during one of her many long European tours. 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 prizewinner of international piano competitions, including the Premio Rovere d'Oro, the Slavic Music Festival and the Paul Badura-Skoda. Album Tracks 1. No. 1. Polonaise in C Major 2. No. 2. Polonaise in E minor 3. No. 3. Polonaise in a Major 4. No. 4. Polonaise in F minor 5. No. 5. Valse in E-Flat Major 6. No. 6. Valse in a Major 7. No. 7. Valse in B-Flat Major 8. No. 8. Valse in F Major 9. No. 9. Anglaise in E-Flat Major 10. No. 10. Anglaise in B-Flat Major 11. No. 11. Anglaise in A-Flat Major 12. No. 12. Anglaise in E-Flat Major 13. No. 13. Contredanse in B-Flat Major 14. No. 14. Contredanse in A-Flat Major 15. No. 15. Quadrille in E-Flat Major 16. No. 16. Quadrille in F Major 17. No. 17. Mazurek in C Major 18. No. 18. Cotillon in A-Flat Major 19. Mazurka No. 1 20. Mazurka No. 2 21. Mazurka No. 3 22. Mazurka No. 4 23. Mazurka No. 5 24. Mazurka No. 6 25. Mazurka No. 7 26. Mazurka No. 8 27. Mazurka No. 9 28. Mazurka No. 10 29. Mazurka No. 11 30. Mazurka No. 12 31. Mazurka No. 13 32. Mazurka No. 14 33. Mazurka No. 15 34. Mazurka No. 16 35. Mazurka No. 17 36. Mazurka No. 18 37. Mazurka No. 19 38. Mazurka No. 20 39. Mazurka No. 21 40. Mazurka No. 22 41. Mazurka No. 23 42. Mazurka No. 24 43. No. 1 in a Minor Allegretto 44. No. 2 in G minor Q