Valentina Lisitsa plays Brahms 2 (fragment)

[unbreakablefootage]

Harrr.. Id like to see Brahms Waltz in a flat major op 39 no 15 :)

[ArVuTKaVaNa]

She IS a serious professional musician!

Bravo!

[DevilsDaugther1972]

warum gehn Klavierspieler immer so ab,ich glaub ich bleib doch bei Flöte=)

[Laudan08]

2:54 She feels frustrated because she must stop playing!

[MaestroSerge]

Браво Валентина!!! В лучших традициях истинно романтического пианизма...

[RenanGarciaMoura]

Wonderful!

[Desireyso58]

Valentina. Divina. Please, I want to hear it all, at least the entire movement. Thanks for all. Didier.

[fungustungus]

from 0:36 on it's brahms concerto 2 mvt 2 right?what is she playing before of that?

[fungustungus]

owned

[technoway]

stephenTGV, I think her dynamics are best for this piece. But, tastes differ,

[andreaprodan]

There conductor is Trevor Hull, a Civil servant from Durham.

he is a genius,

but only on thursdays. His charming wife Rapazla claims he can play Rachmaninoff with his slippers on. They never visited the Black Sea, and have an uncle in Davos, a skiing resort.

Here Trevor is thinking about his uncle's cabin in Davos. Work will be starting on its drainpipes in February. It will be cold then.

[gouloum2222]

it's a pity she does not play more Brahms pieces . she seems to be so passionate by his music in this video.

[VideosAlcides]

Valentina, a melhor pianista da atualidade. Uma dádiva para nós...

Bravíssima!!!

[arturon111]

Arrau is unsurpassable in both Brahms concertos, no one can play them as well as he does,... technically, musically and spiritually speaking

[kempff95]

i prefer khatia butiashvili performance.

her sound better and she understand brahms steal much better!

[trisaliaaa]

fi paure.........

[kyalamio]

The conductor doesn't invest the same passion as the pianist. But the tempo is exactly the metronome mark Brahms requires in the score - listen to the older recordings by Backhaus and Gilels: they were among the rare musicians who understood and were able to live up to Brahms' markings!

[antoinezygfryd]

La pianiste est impériale...-.l'orchestre,lui, est trop nul, avec un fonctionnaire fatigué ou endormi qui tient la baguette....On se console avec le jeu de la pianiste,le reste,je laisse tomber.

[huyt8]

wonderful... really beautiful... wow

[EdiEllerymissing]

She's so virtuos. It's amazing how fast she may play this movement from the second Brahms piano concerto. This is very difficult. It's a little bit to fast, but the way she played... Incredible!

[TomBarristerX]

Tempo is too fast and strict to suit me, but I suppose that's how the conductor wanted it performed.

[tonicopm]

Usually (99.9% of the times) it is the soloist who gets to decide about the tempo.

Only if it were a student or a beginner piano player playing wiht a rather whimsical director who wants to make the call, and this doesn't seem to be the case here.

[himitsunosallychan]

Sorry, there is one thing is very wrong and unsatisfying with this recording. I want hear ALL of performance! Especially first movement and last movement. I found portion of allegretto, but is entire performance uploaded somewhere? If no, PLEASE do so! I apologize for incorrect English, but my request.

[marrieter08]

Valentina was born into a family of non-musicians in Kiev, Ukraine. She started playing piano at the age of three, performing her first solo recital only a year later. Despite her early disposition to music, her dream at that point was to become a professional chess player. She attended the Lysenko music school for Gifted Children and, later, Kiev Conservatory, where she eventually met her future husband, Alexei Kuznetsoff. It was when she met him that she began to take music more seriously

[alanor76]

More. Tell us more.

[swanningaround]

I like her "no nonsense" way of playing.

[EtrofOnaip]

Who is the Conductor & which Orchestra ??

[pianofforte]

This a Mexican orchestra "De Mineria" (is temporary, and sincerely "average"), in a Piano Concerto in 2007. I remember 4 encores at end (really hard encores).

The Conductor is Carlos M. Prieto.

[codonauta]

She looks like having very big hands.

[hedones]

the hands of horowitz, the musicality of richter, and the body of my wife...

[sagalat]

Wow! How's your wife on piccolo?

[ValentinaFan]

I only very recently discovered the Brahms piano concertos. I find them so emotional that they hurt. He was no bearded stuffed shirt - Brahms ! In Valentina's hands (a dream for me, the greatest performances I could hope for) they are - quite simply "From the sublime to the meticulous" ! One day, before I leave this life, I will watch the great Valentina play this for real :)

[slothvader]

this is one of my fave concertos, and she's lately become one of my fave pianistas.

easy on the eyes, too.

[blazing64]

Lol, if I were in that orchestra, I'd quit playing and watch, because I wouldn't have the RIGHT to play with her LOL

[iLoveChopin]

this is so wonderful.. beyond words thank you for posting up

[Jerez911]

Lovely playing...

[pianofforte]

This in Mexico City, 2007, in a concert to TV and broadcasting.

Days before, she play a extended "recital". Last a concert for piano whith "4 high-level encores" 

This is work!

[dido93]

Che fraseggio...tocco...tecnica...­suono...

Valentina, sei "divina"...!

[diegov85]

I'm so sorry I missed it...AGAIN!!

[stephenTGV]

Superb playing. However I wonder if the Brahms would benefit from a heavier touch and more 'presence' of the piano. Should the piano challenge the orchestra, or be part of the symphonic nature of this great concerto? I am sure Valentina knows best. A humble suggestion.

[jvmalfi]

i agree but this is really a very nice piece.

[awdrgyjilplijygrdwaw]

She IS using a very heavy touch already, although it may not seem so because she uses her arms only from her elbows and on.

[waikikit2]

I think it is because of the recording... Sounds pale...

[Sim882]

@stephenTGV you are correct. Julious Katchen does best 

[equinoxranch]

@Sim882

God rest Katchen, lovely and talented individual. But it's not even a contest........... The best combination of Nr. 2 B-dur op. 83 was, hands down (no pun intended) that between Geza Anda and Von Karajan with the Berliner Phil., 1969. Once you hear what those three were able to do, everyone else is a piker, by comparison. Trust me on this. Because of this recording, I can no longer listen to anyone (try to) play it. No offense.

You can get it on DG (Deutsche Grammaphon) #474 838-2

[lsbrother]

@stephenTGV

the balance of piano and orchestra is partly a function of the sound engineer and which microphones he has decided to give prominence to - hopefully in agreement with the pianist and conductor!

often on recordings the piano (or any solo instrument) is made far more prominent than one would hear live in a concert hall (understandably I suppose) - maybe this recording just doesn't follow that rule - and hence could perhaps be said to be more realistic.

[ampdavolts]

@lsbrother, well-put. I am her former concert and home piano tuner/technician.

I also have unique experience as a recording engineer-assistant to famed recordist,

Peter McGrath, and producer, Julian Kreeger, and with great pianists, such as Ivan Davis,

who gave me my start as a concert piano technician. MIC placement is everything. Valentina

plays with the power of any male pianist ever born, and looks wonderful in the process.

Reid Welch

[bwidowerob]

@stephenTGV what an ass!!! have you ever heard her play???!!!!...this is not a video to judge her by...she brings more power and passion to the instrument than any ten men you could find...do your homework...then open your mouth....b...