Here is a new recording by pianist Valentina Lisitsa:
Love Story: Piano Themes From Cinema’s Golden Age
The tracks on this CD are as follows:
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
All are performed by Valentina Lisitsa (piano), with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green, and Gavin Sutherland conducting.
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 composers 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.
Here is Valentina Lisitsa in music of Liszt:
