Elisso Wirssaladze - Ravel Piano Concerto (Left Hand)- 1/2

[azaquarium123]

She reminds me of anna wintour, great bob too, and playing of course.

[achoacho46]

it is nothing copared with the Telavi festival is. telavi festival is the best festival in the world

[agreatgeat]

Can you play this with your right hand instead?

Has anyone tried?

[gjyyngii]

@Seosav It's an English horn, not an oboe.

[marhomist]

Magnificent!

[Seosav]

Ha. The Oboe player at 1:16 has a Hitler 'stache.

[yuehchopin]

Superfrau

[johndega]

THIS IS LATE RAVEL, AND IT MUST HAVE BEEN VERY IMORTANT TO HIM; AS HE

PLACED SO MUCH OF HIMSELF INTO IT. IT DESERVES TO BE MUCH MORE

WIDELY KNOWN THAN IT IS. THIS IS RAVEL AT HIS DEEPEST.

[unagondolaunremo]

bravissimo ravel, e bravissoma elisso!

[sussexpenguin]

pretty much on the verge of stunning. A great performance. Also a very underated work.

[pianotonton]

Admirable ! Quelle tenue, quelle maîtrise et quelle progression dramatique...

[chl91039]

bravo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!bravo!!!!!!­!!!!!!!

[Pavelplaypiano777]

Не очень исполнение - начало немного затянуто, не тот масштаб.

[AmikoKavtaradze]

Her sound is great!

[mdoub]

i love this performance

[mazingerduke]

No solo es una gran pianista,y me emociona su mirada soñadora cuando toca,es que como mujer,no sé qué me gusta más,su piel,su fuerza,esos taconcitos negros que lleva..mmm! una mujer sensual tocando la música más sensual que existe

[ariastoteles]

Éste es el origen de las disertaciones de Wittgenstein sobre las manos y el cuerpo. Su hermano perdió el brazo en la primera guerra mundial; Witt le dedicó varias disertaciones, y Ravel le regaló este concierto. ¡Impresionante!

[davit1982]

Eliso is among the very best! Teriffic interpretation. Thanks for posting

[Nataliena]

This is a woman of force!

[stevethedondo]

the beginning is so terrifying! I love it! and Eliso's performance is magnificent! outstanding representation!

[whythewar1]

@stevethedondo You think that's terrifying? Have you heard the name "Shostakovich" ?

[picc0lett]

her name is Eliso, not Elisso.

[mendelbookinist]

Although Elisso is a talented pianist and a great performer of romantic music, I'm not inclined to think that her Ravel perfomance surpasses Francois or Casadesus's recordings because it is too far from being impressionistic. She plays it in a robust, heavy style which is more appropriate for Schumann's music but badly matches Ravel's ideas. I don't feel a sublime generosity and soaring tenderness which Francois put in this piece. I would finally prefer his recording or that of Casadesus's.

[RabidCh]

I have the same opinion, but I think that the reason of her unexpected strength is the terrible acoustics... it sounds the microphone is too receptive/close to the piano... Never heard so much overload on a recording of this recent quality.

[SunnySunshineRiver]

very nice performer

[Albertan1956]

Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein established a most unusual body of works in 20th-century keyboard literature. Although he lost his right arm during World War I in combat on the Russian front, the feisty musician was determined to continue his concert career, which he had just launched the year before war broke out. Ravel wrote this concerto for Wittgenstein, after Wittgenstein had been turned down by composer after composer.

[releasethefrogs]

I was going to ask why there was a piece written for only one hand.. thanks for the info!

[MrUtube14]

i still am not sure. just because youre missing one hand doesent mean you have to write music for only 1.

[bruckner4444]

Paul Wittgenstein, a pianist, brother of philosopher Ludwig, lost an arm in the WWI, and wrote to several european musicians asking them pieces for the hand he conserved, the left: among other, importants, Ravel wrote this magnificent concer for himt, which isn't less beauty by this reason, don't you think?

[MrUtube14]

yea. certanly very origanal. but good

[bruckner4444]

One or two hands, that's not the question, but how good is the music and how good is played: could be for the two hands and two feet, but if soun beauty, goooodddd....

[Dennischek]

omg. How ignorant you are . I just think classical music is not for you at all.

[MrUtube14]

now thats the spirit! lol jk. i wasnt trying to offend anyone cmon

[sethmartinhill]

Maybe not literally, but in the middle, when the piano is playing the "jaunty, galloping, dance" theme, and the orchestra enters with the opening "ominous" theme, and the piano keeps playing the "galloping" theme over the orchestra's increasingly tense, frantic "ominous" theme - to me is the most terrifying moment in all of classical music. It portrays pure, horrifying insanity ... thank God there's a break and some gentle music after that.

[bckm54]

Yes, thank you, good clarification. I had read somewhere, probably in album liner notes, that the concerto was about the horrors of war, and I believed it because of the military-sounding beat in many parts of it. But thank you for providing clarification. :)

[bckm54]

I have always loved this piece, for one thing, for the contrabassoon solo at the beginning. It set a very appropriate mood for what followed. It's hard to call a piece like this "beautiful" because it's about the horrors of war. Yet it is beautiful. And very, very moving...

[ruslanswara]

Verey, very beautiful, Mrs Virsaladze! Your left hand is superbe!

[jannokas85]

This is so beautiful. How can you hold back the tears hearing this? ...

[tzjc24]

@jannokas85

I don't mean to critisize the song, but do you really find it sad? or capable or moving you to tears? (i guess it doesn't have to be sad to do this). i like sad music, but don't find this at all sad. i do like the piece though

[jannokas85]

@tzjc24 oh no lol it's not sad :-) it's just so powerful, the tears are an emotional reaction to the truth that echoes within the harmonies of this music . . .

[chad410]

i heard her in rach 3 . she was incredible.

[spiroskarav]

Excellent!

[fschioser]

A little fast entrance of the piano to my taste but the rest is pretty good

[managementcen]

Bravo Elisso!!!

[4444matthew4444]

wonderful