Valentina Lisitsa Plays Philip Glass Valentina Lisitsa

• Philip Glass (1937): Glassworks
• 1Opening06:09
• 2Truman Sleeps (The Truman Show)02:40
• The Hours (Arr. Michael Riesman)
• 3The Poet Acts04:01
• 4Morning Passages06:10
• How Now
• 5How Now29:52
• The Hours (Arr. Michael Riesman)
• 6Something She Has To Do03:59
• 7I'm Going To Make A Cake03:20
• Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch
• 8Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch03:32
• Mad Rush
• 9Mad Rush16:17
• The Hours (Arr. Michael Riesman)
• 10Dead Things04:41
• 11Tearing Herself Away05:14
• Wichita Sutra Vortex
• 12Wichita Sutra Vortex07:22
• The Hours (Arr. Michael Riesman)
• 13Escape!04:34
• 14Chosing Life04:42
• 15The Hours07:47
• Metamorphosis One
• 16Metamorphosis One07:41
• Metamorphosis Two
• 17Metamorphosis Two08:26
• Metamorphosis Three
• 18Metamorphosis Three05:39
• Metamorphosis Four
• 19Metamorphosis Four08:28
• Metamorphosis Five
• 20Metamorphosis Five06:45
• Closing (Mishima)
• 21Closing (Mishima)03:38
• Bonustracks:
• 22An Unwelcome Friend04:51
• 23Why Does Someone Have To Die?04:49
• 24Truman Sleeps (The Truman Show)03:25
• Total Runtime02:44:02

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Cutting-edge pianist meets trendsetting composer: Valentina Lisitsa, whose artistry has bewitched audiences around the world, is releasing a double album selection of works for solo piano by Philip Glass, whose brand of minimalism has made him one of the most influential composers of our time. Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass (Decca) is a stunning collection of Glass’s piano works, performed by Lisitsa with the grace and understanding of a true minimalist interpreter.

Music on the album includes tracks from Stephen Daldry’s BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated film The Hours, using the building blocks of minimalism to achieve a huge, inventive soundscape of musical richness and contrasts. The most substantial piece in the collection is the mesmerising 30-minute How Now, one of the first compositions written for the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968. Also featured is Metamorphosis, a five-movement work of music for a theatrical adaptation of Kafka’s play of the same name. Other works featured include the iconic Mad Rush, which Glass performed at the first public appearance of the 14th Dalai Lama in New York City in 1981 and Mishima / Closing, part of the soundtrack to the 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

Richly harmonic, this collection of definitive Glass is a deeply evocative listening experience, with revelatory performances from Lisitsa. She captures the essential beauty in Glass’s circular melodies and the drama he infuses into his minimalistic approach.

“Her performances…showed that her success is backed up by enormous talent and technical flair.” (The New York Times)

“The YouTube sensation is really at the top of her game and she really makes the music move” (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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