Kathy Stott is one of the better British pianists and she has recorded many CDs for EMI and Chandos over the years. The notion of recording a CD of piano music that is based on dance is a clever one. Most of the pieces recorded here are rather slight, but none the less delightful for that. There are many familiar works, such as Sibelius's Valse Triste, Albéniz's Tango, Chopin's haunting Mazurka, Op. 17, No. 4 and Brahms's First Hungarian Dance, all done convincingly. (I particularly liked how she... more info
