![]() ![]() In her next Decca release, released in April 2015, Valentina played the piano music of Philip Glass. November 2014 brought the release of Études, an album comprising Schumann’s Symphonic Études as well as all of Chopin’s contributions to the genre. Featuring music from Nyman’s soundtracks to well-loved films such as The Piano and Wonderland, the companion digital release represents the complete published Nyman oeuvre for piano, running to over 110 minutes. In spring 2014, Decca issued Chasing Pianos, Valentina’s recording of the piano music of Michael Nyman, in celebration of the composer’s 70th birthday. 2013 saw the release of an exciting all-Liszt recital on both CD and LP. ![]() Her June 2012 Albert Hall recital, immediately available as both CD and DVD for pre-order on the night of the concert, was followed by a 2-CD release of the complete concertos of Rachmaninov and Paganini Rhapsody with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Francis. In 2012 Valentina Lisitsa signed an exclusive agreement with Decca Classics. Highlights of 2015 included performances with the Cincinnati Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony orchestras as well as a recital tour of South Korea. Paul, Paris, Bucharest, Quebec, at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Bristol Proms and Menuhin Gstaad Festival and on tour in the Netherlands and Germany. 2014 included concerts in Dresden, Los Angeles, Paris, Vienna, Istanbul, Milan, Sao Paulo, Leipzig and on tour in Japan as well as recitals in St. The year’s concerto commitments took her across the USA as well as to Mexico City, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the BBC Proms in London. Y series with a programme chosen by the public online. As well as returning to the Berlin Philharmonie for a recital in December, Valentina also appeared in New York on 19 October to open the 92nd St. In February 2013 she made her debut in the main auditorium of the Berlin Philharmonie and during the year also gave recitals throughout Europe, in Washington, Brisbane and Seoul. Subsequent YouTube videos expanded her following, culminating in the 2012 Albert Hall recital. Valentina Lisitsa had found international fame online. Offered on Amazon, sales of the unedited recording skyrocketed after the couple posted it on YouTube. When her career seemed to be flagging, it was spectacularly reignited by a home-made DVD, shot by her husband in 2006, of Valentina playing the 24 Chopin Études. Since then, she has performed extensively around the world and appeared in such venues as London’s Wigmore Hall and Vienna’s Musikverein. In 1995 Lisitsa made her New York debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. The couple married the following year and took the huge gamble of moving to the USA. In 1991 she won the Murray Dranoff Two Piano Competition together with Alexei Kuznetsoff. She gained a place at the Lysenko Music School for Gifted Children and later studied under Ludmilla Tsvierko at the Kiev Conservatory. Decca's Britten-Pears studio sound is very well suited to the project.Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1973, Lisitsa began playing the piano at the age of three, giving her first solo recital a year later. Lisitsa doesn't do anything spectacular here, but the originality of the concept is notable, and she conveys the just slightly inward atmosphere of the earlier pieces effectively. ![]() 14 (track 16), for a piece that's right on the edge of what Scriabin would soon accomplish, some examples of which close out the program. Sample the second of the Two Impromptus, Op. Instead, Scriabin experiments with blocks of static texture, with decorations Chopin would not have used, with little unanswered harmonic questions. It's not a question of chromaticism, for Chopin at his most experimental outdid anything in all but the last few pieces here. It's heavily modeled on Chopin, but keep your ears pricked and you'll hear all kinds of hints of the later Scriabin. Much of the music here comes from Scriabin's teenage years, and was never published. Much of the music here comes from Scriabin 's teenage years, and was never published. What Lisitsa offers here is a recital that focuses on a composer's youth, and the signs it may offer of that composer's maturity. What Lisitsa offers here is a recital that focuses on a composer's youth, and the signs it may offer of that composer's maturity. Instead, this recital by pianist and Internet marketing phenomenon Valentina Lisitsa represents a very specific kind of program, and it's good to see her essay something like this rather than the mainstream repertory she has generally done thus far. The title Nuances is uncommunicative and has nothing to do with the ballet of that name assembled from Scriabin's music by composer Alexander Nemtin. ![]()
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