MIKHAIL IVANOVICH GLINKA
(1804–1857)
COMPLETE PIANO WORKS • 2
DANCES
Inga Fiolia
‘Improvisation, singing and dancing were the sources of my first musical experience and inspiration. In Vol. 1, I discovered the vocal singing and orchestral sound of Glinka's improvised variations. In Vol. 2, listeners will delight in the second most natural activity of humans – dancing and rhythm. It's a part of all of us. It's so interesting how Glinka introduced old popular dances of that period to Russian audiences and created these wonderful classical pieces as Russian piano miniatures.’
– Inga Fiolia
(1804–1857)
About this Recording
Glinka wrote a series of delightful polkas, mazurkas, galops and waltzes that were predominantly intended for fashionable drawing rooms and salons. He also wrote more substantial pieces such as the Grande Valse in G major and the Polonaise in E major which were initially scored for orchestra. Some pieces were also based on pre-existing melodies such as the Variations on a theme of Mozart, which is inspired by a melody drawn from Die Zauberflöte and the attractive Tarantella in A minor, a rhythmic adaptation of the Russian folk song In the field there stood a birch tree.
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No. 1. Le Pantalon No. 2. L’ Été No. 3. La Poule |
No. 4. La Trénis No. 5. La Pastourelle |
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No. 1. Le Pantalon No. 2. L’ Été No. 3. La Poule |
No. 4. La Trénis No. 5. La Pastourelle |
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No. 1. La Gaité No. 2. La Naïveté No. 3. La Vivacité |
No. 4. Le Sentiment No. 5. La Tendresse |
B FLAT MAJOR) (1854) (03:38)
G MAJOR) (1831) (01:01)
TOTAL TIME: 73:51
Inga Fiolia
Inga Fiolia studied at the Central Music School of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and the Cologne Musikhochschule with Alexey Nasedkin, Rudolf Kehrer and Vassily Lobanov. She has collaborated with orchestras including the Brussels Philharmonic, the Georgian State Chamber Orchestra and National Philharmonic, the Bergische Symphoniker and the South Westphalia Philharmonic, and has broadcast on all the major German TV and radio stations. Her performance of Scriabin’s Preludes and Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto was released on the DVD Stars of tomorrow (Unitel Classica, 2015).
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Inga will be performing at the Ruhr Piano Festival |
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