''Her First Dance'' is an album by pianist Misha Alperin recorded in July 2006 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is a beautiful recording and perhaps, as idiosyncratic as it is, Alperin's finest moment for ECM yet."Jurek, T
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Mikhail Alperin except as indicated'' # "Vayan" - 6:12 # "Her First Dance" - 5:16 # "A New Day" - 3:23 # "April in February" - 2:39 # "Jump" - 3:24 # "Tiflis" - 6:00 # "Lonely in White" - 4:28 # "Frozen Tears" - 5:25 # "The Russian Song" (Arkady Shilkloper) - 4:31 # "Via Dolorosa" - 7:21

Personnel

Mikhail Alperin Michail Jefimowitsch Alperin (Ukrainian: Миха́йло Юхи́мович Альпе́рін; 7 November 1956 – 11 May 2018) was a Soviet-Norwegian jazz pianist, known as a key member of the Moscow Art Trio. AllMusic.com Biography Alperin ...

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

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French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

flugelhorn The flugelhorn (), also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or flügelhorn, is a brass instrument that resembles the trumpet and cornet but has a wider, more conical bore. Like trumpets and cornets, most flugelhorns are pitched in B, though some ...

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