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 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.