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SCHUBERT All Schubert's Dances
Raimondo Campisi (piano)

BEL AIR DVD-audio BAM2035
[1987 remastered January 2005 TT: 6 hours 24 minutes and 10 seconds]

This Schubert DVD intrigued me for its technological capacity; the six and a half hours of Schubert's 445 Dances for piano on one cheap disc!!

No, you won't want to listen to them all straight through, but
it is noteworthy that they have been remastered from 1978 in very acceptable sound and sympatheically played by Raimondo Campisi - without this Italian pianist, new to me, obviously going onto auto-pilot.


There is in fact a good deal of variety; you may know Schubert's Noble and Sentimental waltzes best in connection with Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales? The originals are here and include collections of Minuets, Ländler & Ecosses, Galops, German Dances etc too; displaying a range of imagination in smaller forms that is very impressive. The French Diapaison properly commends Campisi for finding "the mysterious harmony which can rise even from the least important phrase" and pointing it appropriately.

It is playing contentedly (for me) on my computer whilst I write; it didn't play on my CD player. The dances are very playable by amateurs, for whom they were intended, and I have an inexpensive collection from Dover Publications. Schubert wouldn't mind if you had it on as background music for a party?

And the price of this DVD-audio? A mere €15 from Bel Air on line.

1. “Erste Walzer” D.365 - Op. 9 (24:25)
2. “Walzer, Ländler & 3 Ecossaisen” D.145 - Op.18 (22:32)
3. “Deutsche Tanze & 2 Ecossaisen” D.783 - Op.33 (13:05)
4. “Grätzer Walzer” D.924 - Op.91 (10:23)
5. “Grätzer Galopp” D.925 - Op.91 (01:54)
6. “Wiener Damen-Ländler & 2 Ecossaisen” D734 - Op.67. (12:50)
7. “Variazioni in sol min.sopra un Valzer di Diabelli” D.718. (02:10)
8. “Menuet” D.336 (02:15)
9. “Walzer Sentimentales” No.1-26, D.779 - Op.50 (25:44)
10. “Walzer Nobles” D.969 - Op.77 (11:01)
11. “Galopp und 8 Ecossaisen” D.735 - Op.49 (04:17)
12. “Letzte Walzer” No.1-10, D.146 - Op.127 (33:05)
13. “Dodizi Ländler” D.790 - Op.171 (12:01)
14. “Trenta (venti) minuetti con trio (10 perduti)” D.41 (53:50)
15. “Due minuetti e quattro trii” No. 1 - D.91 (08:37)
16. “Valzer in do diesis magg. con trio in la magg.” D.139 (02:47)
17. “Minuetto in mi magg. con due trii.” D.335 (05:18)
18. “Minuetto in la magg. con trio.” D.334 (03:09)
19. “Tre minuetti con trii” D.380 (10:31)
20. “Scozzese in fa magg” D.158 (00:22)
21. “Dodici scozzesi” D.229 (05:53)
22.” Quattro “Ländler comici” in D magg.” D.354 (02:54)
23. “Dodici Wiener Deutsche” D.128 (11:27)
24. “Diciassette Deutsche dette Ländler” D.366 (12:40)
25. “Sei scozzesi” D.421 (02:15)
26. “Otto Ländler in si bem. magg.” D.378 (04:44)
27. “Dodici danze tedesche” D.420 (09:28)
28. “Scozzese in mi bem. magg.” D.511 (00:24)
29. “Otto scozzesi” D.529 (02:57)
30. “Minuetto” D.600 (01:37)
31. “Trio (per un minuetto perduto) in mi magg.” D.610 (01:17)
32. “Scozzesi” D.618b (00:48)
33. “Due Ecossaisen ” D.618c (00:46)
34. “Due Ländler” D.679 (01:15)
35. “Due Ländler” D.680 (01:20)
36. “Otto Ländler” D.681 (05:01)
37. “Danza tedesca e scozzese” D.643 (01:16)
38. “Sei scozzesi” D.697-145 (02:30)
39. “Quattro Ländler (piano a due mani)” D.814 (03:04)
40. “Danza tedesca” D.722 (00:50)
41. “Undici scozzesi” D.781(04:35)
42. “Due danze tedesche” D.769 (01:29)
43. “Scozzese” D.782 (00:26)
44. “Tre danze tedesche” D.971 (02:11)
45. “Sei danze tedesche” D.820 (07:08)
46. ”Due danze tedesche” D.841 (01:39)
47. “Valzer” (Albumblatt)” D.844 (00:53)
48. “Tre scozzesi” D.816 (01:13)
49. ”Sei danze tedesche” D.970 (03:53)
50. “Cotillon” D.976 (00:44)
51. “Tre danze tedesche” D.972b (01:52)
52. “Tre danze tedesche” D.973 (02:35)
53. “Due danze tedesche” D.974 (01:22)
54. “Tre danze tedesche (a quattro mani)” D.618 (06:32)
55. “Dieci scozzesi” D.977-145 (03:58)
56. “Danza tedesca” D.975 (00:45)
57. “Valzer” D.978 (01:01)
58. “Valzer” D.979 (00:58)
59. “Due valzer” D.980 (01:39)
60. “Danza tedesca” (00:41)
61. “Due minuetti” D. 995 (06:41)

© Peter Grahame Woolf