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Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (2014)

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Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (2014)

Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 242 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 203 Mb | Scans included | 01:17:54
Contemporary Classical, Minimalism, Soundtracks | Label: Decca | # 478 6421 DH

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 disc is packed full with 77mins 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.

Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa has taken an unusual path toward career development: she posted her Chopin performances to YouTube, gained a strong following there, and then hired the London Symphony Orchestra for a set of Rachmaninov concerto performances. The gambit seems to be working: Lisitsa's performances of late Romantic repertoire have been reasonably well received, and now she's earned the right to implement what one imagines was the point of the whole exercise in the first place: the pursuit of the crossover audience centered above all in Britain. There is no denying that Chasing Pianos works well. British composer Michael Nyman has made a long specialty out of minimalist music that shades in the direction of melodic pop. Although Nyman has stated that opera is his favored genre, the style is ideally suited to film scores, and his music for The Piano (1993) is a classic of the genre. That score, adapted for solo piano, is heavily featured here, along with music from other scores that is artfully chosen to give just enough contrast to avoid sheer repetitiveness without disturbing the basic calm surface. Lisitsa's style, flawlessly precise and slightly mechanical, fits this music in a rather eerie way, and fans of Nyman's music will doubtless find a fresh and exciting take on it here. Those coming to the music from the film The Piano or from one of the other soundtracks represented should also be pleased. The sound, from the concert hall at Britain's Wyastone Estate, is unusually well suited to the project: dreamy and soft without being overly gauzy.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (2014)






Tracklist:

The Piano
01. The Heart Asks Pleasure First (4:21)
02. Big My Secret (2:58)

The Diary Of Anne Frank
03. Candlefire (2:29)
04. If (3:34)

Drowning By Numbers
05. Sheep 'n' Tides (2:32)

The Diary Of Anne Frank
06. Goodbye Moortie (1:53)

Carrington
07. Fly Drive (0:51)

The End Of The Affair
08. Diary of Love (2:44)

A Zed And Two Noughts
09. Time Lapse (4:54)

Man With A Movie Camera
10. Odessa Beach (3:32)

The Diary Of Anne Frank
11. The Schoolroom (2:12)
12. Why? (3:59)

The Draughtman's Contract
13. Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds (3:17)

The Piano
14. Deep Sleep Playing (2:19)

The Claim
15. The Exchange (2:51)

The Piano
16. Here to There (1:21)

Wonderland
17. Jack (2:20)
18. Bill (2:39)

Gattaca
19. The Departure (2:49)

The Piano
20. Lost and Found (3:08)
21. All Imperfect Things (3:06)
22. The Attraction of the Pedalling Ankle (7:42)
23. The Mood That Passes Through You (2:36)
24. The Embrace (2:31)
25. Silver-Fingered Fling (5:15)


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Analyzed: Valentina Lisitsa / Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman
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DR12 -7.19 dB -26.81 dB 2:58 02-Big My Secret
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Official DR value: DR12

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Valentina Lisitsa - Chasing Pianos: The Piano Music of Michael Nyman (2014)