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Valentina Lisitsa

Chasing Pianos

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How it WAS made! Valentina Lisitsa 'Chasing Pianos' Music of Michael Nyman
The Heart Asks Pleasure First by Michael Nyman, performed by Valentina Lisitsa
Interview Valentina Lisitsa
Interview with Valentina Lisitsa at Piano City Napoli 2019

Tour Dates

01/21/2020 - Victoria Hall / Geneve, Switzerland
01/25/2020 - Embassy Theatre / Fort Wayne, IN
03/01/2020 - De Montfort Hall / Leicester, United Kingdom
03/06/2020 - Monkton Combe School / Bath, United Kingdom
03/08/2020 - Marlowe Theatre / Canterbury, United Kingdom
03/10/2020 - Alfried Krupp Saal / Essen, Germany
03/15/2020 - The Emperor / Milan, Italy
03/22/2020 - Seoul Arts Center / Seoul, South Korea
03/28/2020 - Solo Recital / Madison, GA
03/31/2020 - Amelia Plantation Chapel / Amelia Island, FL
1 The Heart Asks Pleasure First
2 Big My Secret
3 Candlefire
4 If
5 Sheep 'n' Tides
6 Goodbye Moortie
7 Fly Drive
8 Diary of Love
9 Time Lapse
10 Odessa Beach
11 The School Room
12 Why?
13 Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds
14 Deep Sleep Playing
15 The Exchange
16 Here to There
17 Jack
18 Bill
19 The Departure
20 Lost and Found
21 All Imperfect Things
22 The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle
23 The Mood that Passes Through You
24 The Embrace
25 Silver-Fingered Fling
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Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa celebrates one of Britain's most innovative and popular composers, Michael Nyman, on her latest Decca/Universal Music Classics album, Chasing Pianos. The release coincides with Mr. Nyman's 70th birthday featuring music from his soundtracks to well-loved films such as Wonderland and The Piano. Praised for his music's originality, punchy simplicity and universal appeal, Nyman, during his career as a music critic, coined the term ‘minimalism' for an emergent musical genre – one for which he would make extensive contributions in many of his early scores and inspire a vast global audience. 

18 New 'ON'  44 TOTAL
SYND: NPR, PRI/Classical 24
Direct: Music Choice, MOOD
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Dallas, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Austin, New Orleans
Online: ClassicallyHip

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Love Story - Piano Themes from Cinema's Golden Age is the WCLV: Recording of the Week
    Posted At: July 22, 2019

    On her website, Valentina Lisitsa bills herself as "The Queen of Rachmaninoff."  That happens to be of pinpoint relevance for this 2016 Decca release, since nearly all the selections in the program-especially those from the 1940s and 1950s-were composed in a style that aspires to the over-the-top Romanticism of the famous Russian. Take for instance the most familiar piece on the disc.  When the...

  • Valentina Lisitsa takes on Tchaikovsky's entire piano repertoire and is KDFC 'Album Of the Week'
    Posted At: June 3, 2019

    Ukrainian-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa takes on the piano works of Peter Tchaikovsky in a new 10 CD set, the first-ever complete collection. All told, there are more than eleven hours of music featured, including Tchaikovsky's earliest surviving work and some of his piano transcriptions of his famous orchestral pieces. Are you ready for the 1812 Overture on piano?  This album is the world's fi...

  • Valentina Lisitsa: Tchaikovsky - Complete Works For Solo Piano is the KUSC: Album Of the Week
    Posted At: June 3, 2019

    Ukrainian-born pianist Valentina Lisitsa takes on the piano works of Peter Tchaikovsky in a new 10 CD set, the first-ever complete collection. All told, there are more than eleven hours of music featured, including Tchaikovsky's earliest surviving work and some of his piano transcriptions of his famous orchestral pieces. Are you ready for the 1812 Overture on piano?  This album is the world's fi...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Solo Piano is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: May 30, 2019

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4d4d4d} Pianist Valentina Lisitsa has fulfilled a daunting challenge – recording Tchaikovsky's complete music for solo piano. The 10-disc box set features over 11 hours of music, including world-premiere rarities, making it the most complete collection of Tchaikovsky's solo piano works. It contains previously unrelease...

  • Valentina Lisitsa's fine new 11 hour Tchaikovsky solo piano box-set is most comprehensive ever / Daily Mail
    Posted At: April 13, 2019

    It's a curiosity that Tchaikovsky is so popular – his 1812 Overture is No 1 in the Classic FM Hall of Fame – and yet much of his music is virtually unknown over here. That includes most of his operas, most of his chamber music, and almost all of his solo piano music, the totality of which is featured in Valentina Lisitsa's fine new box. Tchaikovsky wrote solo piano music for more than 30 year...

  • Valentina Lisitsa's new Tchaikovsky Works for Solo Piano is the completist of complete / Financial Times
    Posted At: March 29, 2019

    Several pianists have recorded what purports to be the complete solo piano music, but what they included has varied. This new set by Valentina Lisitsa is the completist of complete. It runs to 10 discs, or over 11 hours of music, and comes with the boast of a clutch of rarities getting their first recordings. Lisitsa's playing bristles with technical brilliance, a touch relentlessly so in the bigger work...

  • Valentina Lisitsa gets 'performer spotlight' on PIANO TV
    Posted At: July 29, 2018

    Recently we did a performer spotlight video on Glenn Gould, who is legendary when it comes to recordings of Bach – but unfortunately, he's been dead quite a while. I thought it would be fun to spotlight a performer who is alive and well, and who got her start on YouTube – Valentina Lisitsa. We're going to discuss her background, her journey as a musician, playing style and recordings, as well...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Love Story / KDFC: Album of the Week
    Posted At: October 17, 2016

    Tune in throughout the week for tracks from KDFC's Album of the Week. More to discover with KDFC and KDFC.com. For the week of October 17th, KDFC selects - Love Story: Piano Themes from Cinema's Golden Age by Valentina Lisitsa, piano Dubbed the YouTube sensation of classical music, pianist Valentina Lisitsa has used social media to move her career into the stratosphere. She has just released a ne...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Love Story / WFMT Featured New Release
    Posted At: September 22, 2016

    Pianist Valentina Lisitsa returns with a lush program of cinematic music scored for piano and orchestra. She explores a genre originally influenced by Rachmaninoff's popular piano concertos with music from movies of the 1940s and 50s including Dangerous Moonlight, Stagefright, and The Apartment. The album also brings us up-to-date with captivating music from Murder on the Orient Express, On Golden Pond a...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Nuances / WFMT Featured New Release
    Posted At: November 22, 2015

    Valentina Lisitsa, who has a formidable track record when it comes to mining the works of left-field composers, turns her attention to Alexander Scriabin with her new release, Nuances. While Scriabin was dramatically pushing at musical boundaries by the end of his short life, his early works are suffused with a fresh innocence – this selection from his lesser-known piano repertoire reflec...

  • Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass / WFMT 'New Release of the Week'
    Posted At: June 28, 2015

    Cutting-edge pianist meets trendsetting composer: Valentina Lisitsa releases a double album of works for solo piano by Philip Glass, whose brand of minimalism has made him one of the most influential composers of our time. Lisitsa explores the range of Glass's work over three decades. While some of the works were composed for the piano, many were originally conceived for multiple instruments or a ful...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Etudes That Dazzle / KMFA Radio
    Posted At: December 9, 2014

    Listen to the Interview with KMFA: Austin / John Clare  Valentina Lisitsa has tackled some giants – yet again! Chopin and Schumann Études out now from record label Decca are stunning, and as the pianist says, "...aren't the typical fare for study pieces." Having recorded Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Beethoven previously, these Études have appeared on YouTube, where Lisitsa gained ...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos / WFMT 'New Release Of the Week'
    Posted At: June 1, 2014

    Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa celebrates one of Britain's most innovative and popular composers, Michael Nyman, on her latest album, ‘Chasing Pianos.' The album coincides with Nyman's 70th birthday, featuring music from his soundtracks to well-loved films such as The Piano, Wonderland, The Diary of Anne Frank and The End of the Affair. Nyman: The Piano: The Heart Asks Pleasure First - Big...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos is KDFC's 'Download of the Week
    Posted At: May 14, 2014

    Each week KDFC - San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music, only at KDFC.com. This week's selection is 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 r...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos / NPR: Deceptive Cadence interview
    Posted At: April 25, 2014

    Born in Kiev a little more than 40 years ago, Valentina Lisitsa came to America in the early '90s to work as a concert pianist. She rode a wave of acclaim, recording the Piano Concertos with the London Symphony Orchestra, but soon realized she was "just another blonde, female Russian pianist." Looking for a new audience, Lisitsa turned to around the time of its 2007 inception, with "just me and my pi...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos is 'Classic 107 Winnipeg / Recording of the Week'
    Posted At: April 12, 2014

    This week our Classic 107/McNally Robinson Classical Recording of the week is a disc by Valentina Lisitsa called 'Chasing Pianos - 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...

  • Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos / NPR 'First Listen'
    Posted At: March 30, 2014

    Music is an aural medium, but the two musicians represented on this album have careers defined, at least in part, by visuals. Valentina Lisitsa, the 44-year-old Ukrainian-born pianist, revived her stalled career by uploading videos of herself playing Chopin to YouTube. After millions clicked, she landed a record deal. And Michael Nyman, the restlessly inventive British composer, is best known for his doz...
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