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Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Manuel de Falla
Cabassi: Dancing with the Orchestra
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (13) - Disc #1
1. Petrushka, movements (3) for piano: 1. Russian dance
2. Petrushka, movements (3) for piano: 2. In Petrushka's cell
3. Petrushka, movements (3) for piano: 3. The shrove-tide fair
4. Dance Suite (Táncszvit), for piano, Sz. 77, BB 86b (reduced from orchestral score): 1. Moderato
5. Dance Suite (Táncszvit), for piano, Sz. 77, BB 86b (reduced from orchestral score): 2. Allegro molto
6. Dance Suite (Táncszvit), for piano, Sz. 77, BB 86b (reduced from orchestral score): 3. Allegro vivace
7. Dance Suite (Táncszvit), for piano, Sz. 77, BB 86b (reduced from orchestral score): 4. Molto tranquillo
8. Dance Suite (Táncszvit), for piano, Sz. 77, BB 86b (reduced from orchestral score): 5. Comodo
9. Dance Suite (Táncszvit), for piano, Sz. 77, BB 86b (reduced from orchestral score): 6. Finale
10. El Amor brujo, ballet for mezzo-soprano & small orchestra in 1 act, G. 44: 1. Pantomime
11. El Amor brujo, ballet for mezzo-soprano & small orchestra in 1 act, G. 44: 2. Dance of Fear
12. El Amor brujo, ballet for mezzo-soprano & small orchestra in 1 act, G. 44: 3. Ritual Fire Dance
13. La valse, poème choréographique for piano or 2 pianos

CD Details

All Artists: Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Manuel de Falla, Maurice Ravel, Davide Cabassi
Title: Cabassi: Dancing with the Orchestra
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Arte Nova Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 4/11/2006
Genre: Classical
Styles: Ballets & Dances, Ballets, Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Suites, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 723721207458

Synopsis

Album Description

"Finalist Davide Cabassi?seems likely to be heard from again. This bear-sized pianist?s exquisitely beautiful playing of Schoenberg?s Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19, was a highpoint of the finals." ?THE BALTIMORE SUN Piano transcriptions of orchestral works were long regarded as an insignificant genre, but ambitious transcriptions are actually works of art in their own right. Proof of the high artistic standard of the transcriptions recorded here is supplied by the fact that the composers of the original works arranged them. 2005 Cliburn Competition finalist Davide Cabassi made his orchestral debut at the age of thirteen with the RAI Symphony Orchestra in Milan. His Carnegie Hall debut took place in January 2006. He has also collaborated with the Munich Philharmonic, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, and the Russian Chamber Philharmonic, as well as with several Italian orchestras. As a top prizewinner of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Cabassi has embarked on three years of concert engagements throughout the U.S..

CD Reviews

Spectacular

Kevin P. Costello | Atlanta, GA | 06/23/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is a collection of dances that may be better known in their orchestral versions than in the piano arrangements heard here (though all arrangements here are by the composer of the original piece). I had watched Cabassi on video during the 2005 Cliburn competition, and was particularly impressed by his Petrushka and La Valse there. This recording lives up to my high expectations from that competition.

Cabassi takes slower tempos on several of the pieces than I've heard elsewhere (notably de Falla's Fire Dance and La Valse), but the result is spectacular. The Fire Dance in particular was a revelation--I'd heard the piece banged into submission many times before, but Cabassi's performance instead utilizes a gorgeous palette of color and shaded pianissimo to create a hypnotic drama."