Anna Vinnitskaya - Ravel / Shostakovich / Widmann:Piano Dances - Import CD

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Anna Vinnitskaya

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Vinitskaya is a Russian native who won the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in 2007 and many other competitions, made her CD debut in 2009, and has been teaching at her alma mater, the Hamburg University of Music and Drama since that year. The theme of this concert, her first in three years since "Chopin: Ballades and Improvisations" in 2021, is dance. In two of Ravel's masterpieces, Vinitskaya will showcase her delicate yet dynamic expression supported by her technique. Shostakovich's "Dances of a Doll" is an easy piano piece for children that is a reworking of a piece he wrote for a movie, but Vinitskaya had hoped to record only 10 years ago. Vinitskaya says that having the opportunity to talk with Wittmann prior to this recording has greatly deepened her understanding of the work. Vinitskaya says that having the opportunity to talk with Wittmann before the recording greatly deepened her understanding of the work.Its finale is a lively military march taken from Wittmann's own opera "Babylon. Naxos Japan