Dance! (2CD)

Daniel Hope has long been fascinated by the power of dance to move and inspire. Taking listeners on a journey through seven centuries of music history, his latest Deutsche Grammophon album – Dance! – celebrates the rhythms that have set bodies in motion and lifted hearts since time began.

A magical, passionate, pulsating tour through history, Daniel Hope’s Dance! runs the gamut of western classical music from medieval times to the late 20th century. Dance touches everybody’s lives, and has always been deeply intertwined with music – as you can hear in Hope’s thoughtfully curated collection which spans seven centuries, including everything from a 14th-century lament to Wojciech Kilar’s 1986 work Orawa, via classics by Handel, Saint-Saëns, Florence Price, Duke Ellington, and many others.

TRACK LIST

CD1
SHOSTAKOVICH: Waltz No. 2
SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre
PROKOFIEV: Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Pas de deux (Swan Lake)
MOZART: Rondo, K. 269 (261a)
SCHUBERT: German Dances with 7 Trios and Coda D 90
BIZET: Farandole (L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2)
OFFENBACH: Can-can (Orpheus in the Underworld)
BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5
TRADITIONAL: Odessa Bulgar
GARDEL: Por una cabeza
PIAZZOLLA: Escualo
BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56
 
CD2
LULLY: Marche pour la cérémonie des Turques (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme)
HANDEL: Rigaudon Nos. 17 & 18 (Water Music Suite No. 3)
LOCKE: Lilk (The Tempest)
PURCELL: Curtain Tune on a Ground (Timon of Athens)
DALL'ABACO: Concerto a più istrumenti in D major Op. 5 No. 6
MERULA: Ciaccona Op. 12 No. 20
ANONYMOUS (16th century): Saltarello
CONFORTO: Fandango (L’Endimione)
ANONYMOUS (14th century): Lamento di Tristano (e la rotta)
WEINER: Róka-Tánc (Fox Dance)
KILAR: Orawa
ELGAR: Minuet in A minor, Op. 21
PRICE: Ticklin' Toes (No. 3 from 3 Little Negro Dances)
DUKE ELLINGTON: It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)
SCHULHOFF: Alla Tarantella
BRITTEN: Romance (Frank Bridge Variations)
STRAVINSKY: Tarantella (Pulcinella)
RAVEL: Vocalise-étude en forme de Habanera, M. 51
 
ARTISTS
Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Daniel Hope, violin/conductor