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 .
