Valentina Lisitsa - Love Story: Piano Themes From
Label: DECCA Catalog: 4789454 Format: CD Valentina Lisitsa (piano) BBC Concert Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green, Gavin SutherlandAddinsell: 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 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. Price: $16.98 |