Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Valentina Lisitsa (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Francis
[ Decca / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 August 2014
This item is only available to us via Special Import.
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 million visitors to her videos.
Lisitsa has recorded all four Rachmaninov piano concertos and the Paganini Rhapsody with the London Symphony Orchestra and Michael Francis.
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 is encyclopaedic."
"I marvelled at the unsentimental fluidity and togetherness with her orchestral colleagues. This is...an impressive CD showcasing for the LSO's ex-double-bass player, now successful conductor, Michael Francis...Lisitsa follows Rachmaninov the pianist's brisk cue, but she doesn't rush" (BBC Music)
"What a heart-melting performance of the first concerto this is...The LSO are pin-sharp in their responses...Lisitsa's is not a big, muscular sound but it is a lithe, well-toned one, and she lights up this most familiar concerto in ways I scarcely thought possible...Lisitsa really shines in the first and third concertos and the second is pretty impressive too" (MusicWeb)
"Francis and the London Symphony Orchestra provide consistently world-class, shapely orchestral frameworks and beautifully characterised first-desk solos throughout" (Gramophone)
