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

Info for Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music Of Michael Nyman

A coming together of two artists with enormous followings – Valentina Lisitsa, with her dazzling artistry and hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube, and Michael Nyman, with his hugely popular film soundtracks.

This release, in the year of Nyman’s 70th birthday, features tracks from his multi-award-winning score for the 1993 smash hit film The Piano.

Acclaimed for his music’s innovation, punchy simplicity and universal appeal, Nyman, during his career as a music critic, coined the term ‘minimalism’ for an emergent musical genre – one to which he would make extensive contributions in many of his early scores and inspire a vast global audience.

The album is packed full with 77 mins of material, full of irresistible energy. The album includes all ten solo piano transcriptions from The Piano, together on one album for the first time.

„Lisitsa plays with great sensitivity and fluidity and succeeds in bringing together a valuable collection of some of the most haunting and appealing piano music of our time.“ (John Suchet, Classic FM)

Valentina Lisitsa, piano

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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