'When do we dance?'

French touch
Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales
Camille Saint Saëns: Étude en forme de Valse

Slavic Soul
Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances
Alexandre Scriabin: Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 38
Sergei Rachmaninoff arr. Vyacheslav Gryaznov: Italian Polka

Interval

Spanish Influence
Manuel de Fallas: Danza rituel del fuego
Alberto Ginastera: Dansas argentinas
Astor Piazzolla: Libertango

American Dream
George Gershwin: When do we dance?
William Bolcom: Graceful ghost rag
Fats Waller: Viper’s drag
Art Tatum: Tea for Two

Lise de la Salle’s wonderfully exuberant dance programme brings the 2022 SJE Arts International Piano Series to a dazzling close.
With a career of over 15 years, award winning recordings and international concert appearances, Lise de la Salle has established herself as one of today’s most exciting young artists and as a musician of real sensibility and maturity. Her playing inspired a Washington Post critic to write:
​“For much of the concert, the audience had to remember to breathe… the exhilaration didn’t let up for a second until her hands came off the keyboard.”