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Danza - Niikura, Umemura

Art Infini  MECO-1060

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Chamber

Faure: Sicilienne
Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Sleeping Beauty
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Bartók: Romanian folk dances
Handel: Sicilienne
Poulenc: Suite française
Popper: Spanish Dance, Hungarian Rhapsody
Albeniz: Tango

Hitomi Niikura, cello
Yuri Umemura, piano

All

Works (8)

• Isaac Albéniz: España (6), Op. 165 No. 2 Tango
• Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56 BB 68 for Violin and Piano
• Gabriel Fauré: Sicilienne, Op. 78
• David Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
• David Popper: Spanish Dances (6), Op. 54
• Francis Poulenc: Suite française d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80b
• Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Op. 40 Symphonic Poem
• Peter Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66a Suite