Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music Of Michael Nyman Valentina Lisitsa

• Michael Nyman (1944-): The Piano
• 1The Heart Asks Pleasure First04:21
• 2Big My Secret02:58
• The Diary Of Anne Frank
• 3Candlefire02:29
• 4If03:34
• Drowning by Numbers
• 5Sheep ‘N’ Tides02:32
• The Diary Of Anne Frank
• 6Goodbye Moortie01:53
• Carrington
• 7Fly Drive00:51
• The End Of The Affair
• 8Diary Of Love02:44
• A Zed And Two Noughts
• 9Time Lapse04:54
• Man With A Movie Camera
• 10Odessa Beach03:32
• The Diary Of Anne Frank
• 11The School Room02:12
• 12Why?03:59
• The Draughtman’s Contract
• 13Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds03:17
• The Piano
• 14Deep Sleep Playing02:19
• The Claim
• 15The Exchange02:51
• The Piano
• 16Here To There01:21
• Wonderland
• 17Jack02:20
• 18Bill02:39
• Gattaca
• 19The Departure02:49
• The Piano
• 20Lost And Found03:08
• 21All Imperfect Things03:06
• 22The Attraction Of The Pedalling Ankle07:42
• 23The Mood That Passes Through You02:36
• 24The Embrace02:31
• 25Silver-Fingered Fling05:15
• Total Runtime01:17:53

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Im Mittelpunkt des neuen Albums von Valentina Lisitsa steht Michael Nyman, der mit seiner unverwechselbaren musikalischen Sprache vielen Filmen seine persönliche Note verliehen hat. Der 70. Geburtstag Nymans im März dieses Jahres ist daher Anlass für Lisitsa, ihr neues Album Chasing Pianos, dem populären Komponisten zu widmen.

Lisitsa, die eigentlich für ihre Interpretationen der Werke von Rachmaninov und Beethoven bekannt ist, entdeckte erst vor kurzem die Musik Nymans für sich und verliebte sich in deren Klänge. Auf ihrem Album interpretiert sie unter anderem Stücke aus den bekannten Filmen „Gattaca“, „Das Ende einer Affäre“, „Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank“ und vor allem die Musik des Oscar-gekrönten Dramas „Das Piano“ von Jane Campion aus dem Jahre 1993.

Valentina Lisitsa, Klavier

Valentina Lisitsa
With her multi-faceted playing described as “dazzling”, Valentina Lisitsa is at ease in a vast repertoire ranging from Bach and Mozart to Shostakovich and Bernstein. Her orchestral repertoire alone includes more than forty concerti. She admits to having a special affinity for the music of Rachmaninoff and Beethoven and continues to add to her vast repertoire each season.

Valentina Lisitsa was born in Kiev, Ukraine and began playing the piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital a year later. She gained a place at the Lysenko Music School for Gifted Children and later studied at the Kiev Conservatory under Ludmilla Tsvierko. In 1991 she won the first prize in The Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition together with Alexei Kuznetsoff. She now resides in the USA.

With more than 30 million YouTube channel views, Valentina Lisitsa is one of the most watched classical musicians on the Web, using digital innovation to champion classical music and performance. She has performed in venues around the world, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, and the Musikverein. In May 2010, Valentina Lisitsa performed the Dutch premiere of Rachmaninoff’s “New 5th” Concerto in her debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and in August 2011 made her debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Brasileira under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel.

Valentina Lisitsa has recorded three independently-released DVDs, including her best-selling set of Chopin’s 24 Etudes. Her recording of the 4 sonatas for violin and piano by composer Charles Ives, made with Hahn, was released in October 2011. In addition, Ms. Lisitsa has recently completed recordings of the complete concerti of Rachmaninoff and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the London Symphony Orchestra under conductor Michael Francis.

Her 11-12 season features debut performances with the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Colorado Symphony and recitals at Ravinia, Festival of the Arts Boca, Teatro de Colon in Buenos Aires and the Casals Festival, chamber engagements, and a solo recital in June 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London

Valentina Lisitsa records exclusively for Decca Classics.

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