27 pieces on the lively side
Animations is a collection of pieces focusing on lively rhythms and sparkling, crisply-articulated playing - though not all the music is at faster tempos. There are goblins and grasshoppers, gypsies and witches; Grieg and Goldschmidt co-exist with Horne and Hummel; there is entertaining and sometimes unfamiliar music by Scarlatti, Schumann and Chopin. There is dance music a plenty, as you would expect in an album devoted to movement, and as well as a waltz and a mazurka, there is a gigue by Reger and a galop by Casella.
Contents:
- Bartók Winter solstice song
- Benjamin Haunted house
- Casella Galop final
- Copland The young pioneers
- Couperin Air in the Polish style
- CPE Bach Allegro assai
- Davies Piano piece no 19
- Dunhill A dulcimer tune
- Goldschmidt Scherzo
- Grieg Tomorrow you will marry
- Hellen Study op 47 no 11
- Hofmann ‘Hungarian’
- Horne In Seven
- Hummel Allegro from Caprice op 49
- Kodály Children’s dance no 11
- Kullak Playing in the fields op 62 no 4 . . .
- Mendelssohn Song without words op 102 no 3
- Mozart Allegro
- Prokofieff Procession of the grasshoppers
- Quilter Goblins
- Reger Gigue
- Scarlatti Sonata K 431
- Schubert Minuet no 11
- Schubert Minuet no 23
- Schumann Gypsy Dance
- Tchaikovsky The witch
- von Wilm Butterfly op 235 no 2 .