Vasco Dantas - Poetic Scenes for PianoFor his recording for ARS PRODUKTION, the exceptional Portuguese pianist Vasco Dantas has put together a program with the German Romantic Robert Schumann at it's center, whose influence is evident in all the other works on this album. All the composers are connected not only in terms of form, but also through personal relationships. Vasco Dantas obtained his Bachelor's in Music with 1st Class Distinction at the London Royal College of Music, studying

There are constant references to Lodger

and with his brother Thomas formed Waring's Pennsylvanians

they released innovative records that were lauded worldwide and have since acquired cult status

and overcome with grief for the death of his daughter Josefa

Sam and her friends are terrorised during a party by a group of young men on a desperate hunt for something in her house

Peter Egan

LAX) and producer Andrew Thaggard (BoomBaptist)

she has devised a very eclectic programme

Ben Webster

Includes photobook

In this recording entitled Enigma Fortuna

racking up a lengthy string of hits on records with those orchestras on which she provided the vocals