Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music Of Michael Nyman Valentina Lisitsa

• 1 The Heart Asks Pleasure First 04:21
• 2 Big My Secret 02:58
• 3 Candlefire 02:29
• 4 If 03:34
• 5 Sheep ‘N’ Tides 02:32
• 6 Goodbye Moortie 01:53
• 7 Fly Drive 00:51
• 8 Diary Of Love 02:44
• 9 Time Lapse 04:54
• 10 Odessa Beach 03:32
• 11 The School Room 02:12
• 12 Why? 03:59
• 13 Chasing Sheep Is Best Left To Shepherds 03:17
• 14 Deep Sleep Playing 02:19
• 15 The Exchange 02:51
• 16 Here To There 01:21
• 17 Jack 02:20
• 18 Bill 02:39
• 19 The Departure 02:49
• 20 Lost And Found 03:08
• 21 All Imperfect Things 03:06
• 22 The Attraction Of The Pedalling Ankle 07:42
• 23 The Mood That Passes Through You 02:36
• 24 The Embrace 02:31
• 25 Silver-Fingered Fling 05:15
• Total Runtime 01:17:53

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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