Valentina Lisitsa (1973) weet door het filmen van klassieke pianowerken via YouTube uit te groeien tot een waar fenomeen met miljoenen bewonderaars over de hele wereld. Voor Decca heeft zij diverse albums gemaakt met klassieke en hedendaagse thema’s. Dit album bevat als het ware vijftien kleine pianoconcerten, die beroemde films als Murder on the Orient Express begeleiden. Al snel blijkt dat een pakkende melodie de populariteit van de film enorm ondersteunt. Vanaf 1940 werd speciaal muziek voor films geschreven met als meest bekende titelsong The Piano van Michael Nyman. Dit album begint met The Warsaw Concerto (Dangerous Moonlight 1941) en eindigt met de muziek bij Pride and Prejudice (1985). Vijftien miniatuurtjes die een prachtige ode brengen aan de Britse filmmuziek.
Love Story: Piano Themes From Cinema’s Golden Age
Addinsell:
Warsaw Concerto
Invocation
Bath:
Cornish Rhapsody
Beaver:
Portrait of Isla
Bennett, R R:
Murder on the Orient Express: Overture
Bridgewater:
Legend of Lancelot
Davis, C:
Pride and Prejudice: theme
Farnon:
Seashore
Grusin:
On Golden Pond: New Hampshire Hornpipe
Leslie-Smith:
The Mansell Concerto
Lucas, L:
Stage Fright Rhapsody from Stage Fright
Rota, N:
The Legend of the Glass Mountain
Shostakovich:
The Unforgettable Year 1919 - suite Op. 89a: The Storming Of Red Hill (Assault On Beautiful Gorky)
Williams, Charles:
Jealous Lover (The Apartment)
The Dream of Olwen
Valentina Lisitsa (piano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green, Gavin Sutherland
Valentina Lisitsa explores the glorious music of cinema’s unparalleled golden era.
Valentina looks back to the cinematic glory days of the big screen, performing the finest piano concerto music composed especially for film.
A genre originally influenced by Rachmaninov’s popular piano concertos, these pieces are arresting original scores for piano and orchestra composed for movies of the 1940s and 1950s 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 and Pride & Prejudice.
This is a feast of original works by well-known luminaries such as Nino Rota, Richard Addinsell, Carl Davies, Richard Rodney-Bennett and Dimitri Shostakovich, set alongside scores from Charles Williams, Hubert Bath, Robert Farnon and others.
These pieces feature in films by legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, Leslie Arliss and Mark Rydell, accompanied by the great actors of the time such as Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Albert Finney, Jack Lemmon, Ingrid Bergman and many more.
Tracks
Disc 1
1. Warsaw Concerto
2. Murder On The Orient Express - Overture
3. The Storming Of Red Hill (Assault On Beautiful Gorky) (From "The Unforgettable Year 1919")
4. Jealous Lover (From "The Apartment")
5. The Legend Of The Glass Mountain
6. Seashore
7. Invocation (From "Journey To Romance")
8. The Mansell Concerto (From "The Women'S Angle")
9. Cornish Rhapsody (From "Love Story")
10. Portrait Of Isla (From "The Case Of The Frightened Lady")
11. New Hampshire Hornpipe (From "On Golden Pond")
