Valentina Lisitsa & Alexei Kuznetsoff

Russian pianist Valentina Lisitsa and her husband Alexei Kuznetsoff virtually exploded onto the American musical scene in their formal U.S. Debut in Chicago.  Their performance gamered the following praise from the Chicago Tribune's music critic, John von Rhein: "... I cannot recall when I have heard a more exciting or more accomplished two-piano team.  They have the colossal technique and temperament you associate with pianists of the Russian school; they also have a virtually flawless ensemble, the kind most duos take years to achieve, if they are ever so fortunate."

The couple combined their formidable talents and began working as a team with the revered Dr. Ludmilla Tsvierko in Kiev, under whose tutelage, the duo won prizes in the Concertino Prague, the Lysenko Piano Competition, the Paris Chamber Music Competition and the Ukrainian Chamber Music Competition as well as first prize in the 1991 Murray Dranoff Two-Piano Competition in Miami.

CD 72053 

CD 72054

Valentina Lisitsa &
Alexei Kuznetsoff, Volume 1

Valentina Lisitsa &
Alexei Kuznetsoff, Volume 2  

  
Rachmaninoff - Suite No. 1, Opus 5
Chopin - Rondo, Opus 73
Liszt - Don Juan
Shostakovich - Suite, Opus 6

   
Bolcom - Recuerdos
Debussy - En Blanc et Noir
Weber-Godowsky - Invitation to the Dance
Schnittke - Gogol Suite

GCD 8008

   William De Rosa (cello), Valentina Lisitsa (piano), Alexei Kuznetsoff (piano) - Rachmaninoff
 

 
Rachmaninoff -
Sonata for Cello & Piano, Opus 19
Suite No. 1, Opus 5
3 Preludes

CD 72055

  CD 72056

  
Valentina Lisitsa -
Virtuosa Valentina - Volume 1
  

Valentina Lisitsa - "Valentina"

   Rossini-Ginzburg - Paraphrase on Figaro's Aria from "Barber of Seville"
Liszt- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Schubert-Liszt - Die Stadt, Gute Nacht
Schubert-Liszt - Erlkönig, Erstarrung
Liszt - La Campanella, Ballade No. 2, Spanish Rhapsody
Godowsky - Fledermaus

 
Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 12 in F, K. 332
Beethoven - 3 Contradances
Chopin - Berceuse, Opus 57
Weber - Rondo Brillante
Rachmaninoff - 3 Preludes
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat, Opus 83

CD 72060
 

CD 72070
 

William De Rosa (cello), Valentina Lisitsa (piano), Sarah Caldwell (conductor), Ekaterinburg Philharmonic Orchestra
 

Valentina Lisitsa -
Virtuosa Valentina, Volume 2
 

Shostakovich Concertos

Concerto No. 1 for Cello (De Rosa)
Concerto No. 1 for Piano (Lisitsa)
  

    
Rachmaninoff -
Moments Musicaux, Op. 16
Etude Tableaux, Opus 39, No. 6
Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 12
Sonata in B minor
Transcendental Etude No. 12
Schubert-Liszt - Dopperganger ("Chasse Neige")
Schubert-Liszt - Aufenthalt