Rachmaninov: Complete Piano Concertos; Paganini Rhapsody / Valentina Lisitsa, piano

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Album Summary

Performer

• Valentina Lisitsa (Piano)

Conductor

• Francis, Michael

Ensembles

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• London Symphony Orchestra

Composer

• Sergey Rachmaninov (1873 - 1943)

Notes & Reviews:

Very much an artist of the twenty-first century, Ukranian-born Lisitsa secured a vast global audience purely through social media. She quickly became one of the most viewed pianists on YouTube with over fifty million visitors to her videos.

Lisitsa made her Decca debut with Live at the Royal Albert Hall, released in July 2012 on CD and DVD. The live streaming of the recital attracted an incredible 100,000 views within a week.

Signed to Decca Classics in the spring of 2012, Lisitsa has recorded all four Rachmaninov piano concertos and the Paganini Rhapsody with the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Francis.

In October 2012, Piano Concerto No. 2 was exclusively released as a digital EP, a release which met with considerable success and reached #5 in the iTunes UK Classical Chart, #9 at the iTunes Classical Chart in the US. This was followed by digital EP releases of the individual Concertos No. 3, No. 4 and Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini in subsequent month, prior to the release of the complete set.

Lisitsa describes the recording as "arguably the most ambitious piano-orchestra project a pianist can undertake in a lifetime. The sheer variety of emotions and styles touched upon in encyclopedic.

The Daily Telegraph
It soon became clear Lisitsa is a serious artist. She'd chosen a hugely taxing program, book-ended with two Liszt showpieces. She played these with urgent intensity and a feeling for their sudden moments of pathos, which lifted them out of their showpiece status.

Notes & Reviews:

Personnel: Valentina Lisitsa (piano).

Recording information: Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London (2009-09-12_2009-09-13&2009-).

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Rachmaninov, Sergei : Concerto for Piano no 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1

• Performer: Valentina Lisitsa (Piano)
• Conductor: Michael Francis
• Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra
• Notes: Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London (09/12/2009-09/13/2009)
• Running Time: 25 min. 33 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1890-1891

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30

• Performer: Valentina Lisitsa (Piano)
• Conductor: Michael Francis
• Notes: Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London (12/05/2009-12/07/2009)
• Running Time: 39 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1909

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18

• Performer: Valentina Lisitsa (Piano)
• Conductor: Michael Francis
• Notes: Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London (09/12/2009-09/13/2009)
• Running Time: 32 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1900-1901

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Concerto for Piano no 4 in G minor, Op. 40

• Performer: Valentina Lisitsa (Piano)
• Conductor: Michael Francis
• Notes: Studio 1, Abbey Road Studios, London (12/05/2009-12/07/2009)
• Running Time: 24 min. 7 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 1926

Rachmaninov, Sergei : Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini

• Performer: Valentina Lisitsa (Piano)
• Conductor: Michael Francis
• Running Time: 17 min. 54 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Written: 1934