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On 10^th November, 2014, the latest album signed by the Ukrainean born Valentina Lisitsa will be released at an international level. After having released in April 2014, the album recorded with music by Michael Nyman, which you can listen to anytime on the website of the Vote the best classical album of 2014 campaign, romaniamuzical.ro, the pianist, one of the revelations of the recent years, has chosen to perform Études by Chopin and Schumann, an impressive repertoire, offering to her peculiar qualities the chance to shine. It is the first time a pianist has the courage to suggest to a major record label, such a juxtaposition: Études Op. 10 and Op. 25 by Frédéric Chopin, along with The Symphonic Études Op. 13 by Robert Schumann, that is, over eighty-five minutes of music with one single factor in common: virtuosity and musicality.

The You Tube pianist:

Valentina Lisitsa is known as the You Tube pianist - this due to an approach quite out of the ordinary for a performer of classical music; she built her fame especially in the online environment; her You Tube channel determined Decca Records representatives to offer her an exclusive contract, which she signed in 2012 - and thus, by today, Valentina Lisitsa has released all the concertos by Rachmaninoff, works by Liszt and the album dedicated to Michael Nyman at Decca Records.

Valentina Lisitsa could also be listened to in Bucharest last year, in a public recital at the Romanian Athenaeum.

Biographical details and the critic's opinion:

She did not want to be yet another blonde Russian pianist, as she herself emphasized it, so after she had settled in the United States in 1991, Lisitsa abandoned the career of a professional pianist and became a mere clerk of the American administration. Still, since 2007, she has begun posting videos on You Tube - and her first videos were Chopin's Études - her recording having the most views of all the recordings of Chopin's Études on You Tube.

I can see now why Lisitsa enjoyed such a great success: she is a non-restricted and non-conformist pianist, very spectacular from a technical standpoint in her performance. I have to admit though that I enjoyed more, the performance of Jan Lisicki of Chopin's Études, issued by Deutsche Grammophon - which contans more musicality and poetry than Lisitsa's.

The latest album of Valentina Lisitsa can be listened to on Music Box on Monday, 10^th November, starting at 19:00, and it is included in the Vote the best classical album of 2014 campaign.