With over 200.000 subscribers, she is considered the star pianist of YouTube's classical music section. Valentina Lisitsa is an artist who stands out because of her remarkable musicality and technique. She was born in Ukraine, but now she is living in the US, and last October she released an Alexander Scriabin album entitled "Nuances".

Valentina Lisitsa's Internet success did not happen by chance, because in her marketing campaign the pianist made a habit of especially addressing her online audience. The album "Nuances" was released in two formats. Aside from the traditional version, she has also released a digital version, the latter including four extra recordings, among which probably the first ever recording of Scriabin's Duet in D minor.

Valentina Lisitsa's album release is part of the series of events dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the composer's death, which was last year, bringing the novelty element of the Russian composer's early works, by including pieces that have not even been published. The sonority model is unmistakably Chopin, however, listening closely you will hear resonances of Scriabin's style in his later years. These early works are replete with innocence and purity, in stark contrast with his explorations of the limits of musical expression, in which he was deeply interested towards the end of his short life.

This is not Valentina Lisitsa's first contact with the works of Scriabin in 2015, she has also participated in the "The First Complete Edition" dedicated to Scriabin by Casa Decca Classics, released in April last year. The pianist is on the cover of the album together with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gordon Fergus-Thompson, Valery Gergiev, Benjamin Grosvenor, Vladimir Horowitz, Evgeny Kissin, Lorin Maazel, Ivo Pogorelich, Sviatoslav Richter, Roberto Szidon and Daniil Trifonov.

The album "Nuances", released on the 30^th of October 2015, is a display of Valentina Lisitsa's remarkable talent and finesse, of her ability to convey the special nuances of the music of the enigmatic maestro of Russian symbolism, in a manner reminiscent of the previous albums dedicated to Philip Glass and Michael Nyman, but also of the challenging experience of the Études of Schumann and Chopin.

Here we have, I believe, plenty reasons to invite you to listen and vote for this album in the campaign entitled "Vote the best classical album of 2016", but also to listen to the "CD-Review" segment on the February 4^th edition of "Arpeggio" at Radio Romania Music.