i played this piece myself in a solo recital a few weeks ago and i still have this wonderful melody in my head. a pity that u rushed through it so fast - it's andante, but anyway nice playing.
maybe listen to my version of it that i've just uploaded ;)
Well if you had barely 5 mins to get out of the hall, you may be forgiven for rushing it this time! Most players would not be able to perfrorm it at this tempo if they wanted to and your skill is incredible, but for this particular peice, just a little slower is more enjoyable for most of us ordinary listeners.
Well, I think the performance is spellbinding and just can't help feeling great affection for this artist. I admit it's tempting to like somebody because they are very beautiful, but just sipping my New Year's Eve sherry and puffing my pipe and looking out the window I am still spellbound by a masterful and deeply thought out, very honest presentation. It is a wonderful privilege to have such company tonight. The camera work was done with subtle, excellent taste, may I add : )
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@koja232 Perdona, Hofmann no fué alumno de un alumno de Chopin, ese fue Alfred Cortot (otro gran pianista) , tambien te recomiendo que esuches a Vladimir de Pachmann
I really want to know.....If you are not forced by the last 5 minutes, is that the tempo you really wanted to play? I love your interpretation of many works!
Hmmm stunning technically but I wouldn't sleep listening to that and this kinda defeats its purpose. Slower? It's fine sometimes :). This is Chopin, not Liszt.
@zechordlord This song was not composed as a Berceuse, berceuse is a tittle that the editor of this piece gave to that composition... Please go a little bit far away than the name. Chopin hated names for its compositions. The language of emotions hasn't got words!.
@LluisVelaRos Didn't know about that...the name fits wonderfully though. I don't know if I will change my opinion. It's not that I am against speed or jealous or anything, I just find that the emotions seep into me better when it's slower. it's a personal thing though, and you're right I shouldn't be so final about this.
@zechordlord Nobody feels emotions in the same way, the same thing happens with music! I'd like you know that Chopin used to dissaprove the excesive using of pedaling, the pedal use to be used when playing slow parts, listen some Vladimir depachmann recordings.
In his precise and elegant french Chopin to his lady: " if your stupid dog don't quit pissing all over my sheets I am gonna have the fucking bitch put to sleep". Yes, the female dog Lalonde was doing that onto Chopin's freshly written-over note paper which was expensive. The joke, told in the conservatories, reflects how the Berceuse gets played these days as, for example, by Miss Lisitsa here...it is not your Mother's Berceuse, is it?...
Esta música está interpretada muy rapido, ahy melodia un 90% en toda la pieza, se escucha plano, metronómico, no existe Rubato ni Saber de interpretación, para mi esta es como todos los demas pianistas tocandolo sin nada de sentimiento, me da pena ver como un 99% de pianistas en el mundo hacen quedar mal a los pianistas de esas epocas, y ya sabran de que hablo cuando suba mis videos, mientras tanto seguire escuchando mediocridad en internet y en el CNM del Peru.
@MrPepemarciano paciencia amigo, lo que digo parece prepotencia, pero mas que todo es critica, yo he visto a Valentina Lisitsa y para mi no es gran pianista, su forma de interpretar hace creer que es una pianista de alto nivel, pero, mas que todo, es como chicle para los oidos, pero ten paciencia, muy pronto vas a escuchar mi forma de interpretar, y si eres inteligente, sabras que tocar rapidito es muy facil, todos pueden, pero lo dificil es tocar lento, mas aun interpretar. Bueno, contactame.
@TheProGunz2 Saludos, no creo que esta interpretación esté exenta de emoción, me parece muy bien tocada y con sentimiento, es más me parece muy contradictorio que me digas que está interpretada muy rápida, ¿Has escuchado las versionesde pianistas como Hoffman? Aún es más rapido... Has pensado que le problema no sea del pianista sino del piano? .
@LluisVelaRos como he dicho antes y espero no volverlo a repetir, todo el mundo lo puede tocar rapidito, pero eso no es lo importante, para nada, se trata mas que todo de una excelente interpretación, para lograr eso ahy que escuchar demaciado, criticar mucho y pensar las cosas claras, obiamente te falta escuchar, y a Hoffman, aun no lo llegue a escuchar pero si lo toca mas rapido, debe de ser un desastre, y sobre si el problema no es el pianista, sino el piano, estas muy equivocado.
@TheProGunz2 Que sepas que estas juzgando a un excelente pianista pupila de uno de los mejores alumnos de Chopin sin conocerlo, primero, segundo, he tocado varios steinways y van muy mal para interpretar Chopin, el sistema de doble repetición moderno es el asesino más grande de la música de Chopin y su pianisimo. Además veo que poco entiendes de instrumentos pues un teclado pesado jamas será suave ya que requerirá una mayor fuerza en los dedos y por ello movimientos más bruscos.
@LluisVelaRos Tengo mucha lastima tener que hablar de musica contigo porque ya veo que es imposible, primero, a lo del steinway veo que no me entendistes con sistema muy pesado y suave, pero no necesito que lo entiendas, segundo, para mi es completamente ignorante tener que escuchar a la jente que los pianisimos de chopan no son como todos los pianisimos que hay, eso ya es modificar el entendimiento de los dinámicos, y lo que mas odio es que cuando chopin dice PPP tocan mP, eso es una aberracion
(Cont) Entiendo que tu gusto particular (Que tiene una excesiva influencia en los pianistas modernos) puedan llevar a decirte lo que dices sin embargo el estilo de interpretar que tu me cuentas está muy alejado del sistema que defendía chopin, para una mayor comprensión desearía que te leyeras el siguiente libro "Chopin vu par ses élèves. Yo no digo como hay que tocar una canción, solo creo que tocarlo como chopin lo pensó va a hacer sentir a gente sensible aquello que Chopin quería decir.
@LluisVelaRos y si deceas que lea ese libro que mencionas "Chopin vu par ses élèves", sera mejor que me lo envies ya sea en PDF porque no se comprar por internet, tendria que verlo ya que ese libro los escribieron sus alumnos, y eso no es muy confiable que digamos, el maestro puede decir muchas cosas pero el alumno no siempre dice lo mismo. Ademas, si Chopin quiso defender su forma de tocar, debio escribir con puño y letra lo que en verdad deberiamos escuchas de sus musicas....
@LluisVelaRos Ademas estoy cansado de escuchas a los demas tocando chopin de esa forma, dudo que el realmente aya querido que toquemos como sus alumnos dicen, es muy lamentable tener que escuchar a personas hablar asi de la música, y si tienes que responder, tengo muchas respuestas a lo que tengas que decirme. Si tienes que decirme algo a serca del Steinway de concierto, su mecanismo es el mejor que cualquier otro piano de concierto, tiene un excelente sonido y muy dificil de manejar.
@LluisVelaRos ...(Continuación)y para que sepas Lisitsa esta tocando en un Steinway & Songs de concierto, un piano con un sistema muy pesado y suave, cuando lo toques te daras cuenta y si no saber como controlarlo estas perdido. Ademas, si escuchas bien, te daras cuenta, "ya almenos se escucha la melodia", pero no ahy expresividad, para nada, todo es plano y seco. aunque se escuche como cancion de cuna, no lo es, espero de que te des cuenta y si tienes duda no olvides en responder.
Wow...this is a stunning performance. Does this pianist have any recorded material that is available for purchase? (Specifically of Chopin, if possible).
@MrCavitysChessCorner complicadísimo, en ese tiempo no había medios para retener el sonido, para grabar, por eso inventaron la notación musical, entonces solo nos queda escuchar a los que las interpretan!
@Harryvolting : you'll also probably need someone to film you as you play the piano. :-) i like your sense of humor. i wish i had learned the piano, so many beautiful pieces such as this one.
@ggiro You can learn the piano, unless you say you can't. My music teacher always seems to enjoy me coming along for a lesson and nearly always doubles up in fits of laughter when she opens the door and I'm standing there, Still.. Twinkle Twinkle, its a start and it was written by Mozart, wasn't it?
@Gandalf4568 You're right, after the advice I recieved from my post I did purchase a piano, off of EBay for a reasonable price. the seller described it as "just having one key missing."
When it arrived I couldn't get the bloomin' lid open.
@andrespereyda By listening to her making amazing art ?? Lol Had you never seen a women before??? Its not because she is a piano virtuose that you can make any stupid comments like this about her.
@benoitdrums1996 My perfectly WISE commentary succeeds, "not because she is a piano virtuoso", but because I WANTED TO see her naked, thinking that would make the video LOOK better. I HAD seen many a woman before. You make ME laugh. I listened a little bit, and I thought she was rushing it.
Hey Im just curious, if you said you recorded these as extras... does that mean you didnt know them at all until the day before you recorded them O.o???
Valentina this piece sounds awesome! The combinations of the notes with the flat keys make this piece very touching. You have the best expression with piano I have ever seen, including emotion.
...most Chopin bios will say that the idea for calling this Berceuse was definitely Chopin's, not any publisher's...and that there was a REAL BABY involved (fortunately Chopin WAS NOT the father, makes me think of Maury...or Steve Wilkos..."you ARE NOT the father!...")...but, yes, these were originally "variations"...Miss Lisitsa makes a new etude out of this...just do it, play like this in concerts...
I love you!! You're brilliant!! I really really want to be you when I grow up. How many hours do you practice a day? Also, do you have any specific exercises you do to strengthen your fingers? I've been playing a while, but I sound like child's play next to you. I kind of get a lot of stitches. Especially in my thumbs.
holy shit that was amazing...im trying to play that piece right now and i cannot play it even as close to how fast you play it but im 13. your amazing
Valentina, I just wanted to say that you're the sweetest pianist ever. Not that I've met you, but you're always nice to all the people instead of rude. While at the same time, not trying to be "cool". I love the way you play, and that it sounds and feels natural- lifts the soul. I started piano 4 years ago. I'm 16. I hope to be as great as you are someday. I really really do.
Wow you started at 4 and you're 16 and you've been playing for 12 years and still aren't as good as her? I've been playing piano fo 7 years since I was 8 and I am now 15. I am 15 years old now. I you obviously either didn't get a good teacher, didn't pay attention to what your teacher was saying, didn't follow instructions or listent to what your teacher was saying, tried to unsuccessfully teach yourself piano, or better yet you just didn't practice enough. Better luck next time buddy.
Very interesting about the tempi, my memory is old but I will look up Cortot's performance I don't think even he was so fast letting it rest in my mind I think it opens another insight, what a total distraction Youtube is
You know your music history! I love it how knowledgeable you are of the pieces you play, how you take the time to explain it's history to us, and what they were called before it was changed to something else. I think it's funny how pple wine and cry about how fast you play and little do they know that is exactly how you ought to do it.....I enjoy watching how fast but smooth your hands "go". haha...thank you!
My favorite interpretation is Kissin's (only because I can't find Martha's) because Kissin's tempo is just right for me. Not as slow as some, but not too fast. However, I don't mind your tempo. Just because you play it faster does not mean that you don't play it sensitively. The passagework is beautiful. Bravo!
Beautiful. My favorite rendition is by Novaes, but really there is no comparing - this is lovely and unique and interesting as with all the great pianists.
@ValentinaLisistsa I'm currently playing this song, and from 1:47 - 2:11 I have played it over and over and over. It's a big challenge to be able to play that part as fast as it is, and it seems like you had no problem with it!
Great job! This was my first time hearing this piece and I was following the sheet music throughout most of it, lol this is some hard stuff!! You are a fantastic pianist! I love your Chopin interpretations very much =)
Absolutely sublime playing and music. You play this so lightly, just as a lullaby should sound. Your piano is exquisite, so very musical. Must be a joy to play, as well. Thank you!!
wonderful talent, but the most insensitive version of this piece. can't you show off your fingers in a different piece? I know you have your reasons for the tempo, but anything can be justified for any piece, or any belief. Does not make it beautiful. Its robotic, and I am sure Chopin himself would have not played, or wanted it played so mechanically with not musical thought.
Beautiful playing, Valentina. Also, that piano and that hall. What a gorgeous sound. I love Hamburg Steinways but obviously that one was special ... the pick of the litter, so to speak.
You have a beautiful way of relating the nuances of emotion through your play.
Chopin wrote the piece, and if I may...his intention was to express the deepest parts of ourselves when we are alone. Valentina, I think you have done just that!
No doubt about it in my mind Valentina, in light of the fact that the Beceuse was titled by a publisher, you set this one on fire... as Chopin likely intended. I love the way you rip up and down the keys.
I find that a lot of pieces naturally drift into an appropriate tempo. I wish I had the technical mastery that this piece demands, and that you showcase so eloquently.
This interpretation has much to recommend it. The colours are delicate, the finger work flawless and lucid. There's consistent clarity and transparency across the voices.
I prefer the piece played slower, and don't share Valentina's concern that a drop in tempo would render it a "funeral march".
It might be the case that the optimal tempo for the variations should dictate the tempo of the theme; not the other way round.
This is merely a suggestion - all respect to this marvellous artist.
Today was my FIRST time ever watching a You Tube video with classical music which i occasionally listen to, and I am just recently learning to play piano. I am completely IN LOVE with your videos, your playing style, and your renditions of these songs!!!
Thank you, Valentina. Your performance of this piece is at once serene and stirring. Absolutely captivating and impossible to stop watching. I find new things I love about it each time I listen to it.
Fascinating barefoot Chopin, fascinating that this piece again and again will communicate this peaceful mood. I think Chopin was very aware of the berceuse-like mood though he also enjoyed making next-to-impossible filigreework :)
Im learning that piece right now, lovely piece, has its tricky parts.
1:47 section is killing me, no matter how slow I take it and master it, when I try to speed up, it falls apart-its not the syncopation thats bad, its just the key/finger relation.
I like the background You gave on the piece in one of the comments. In Paderewski edition He suggested andante, to be honest I like rather slower tempo on this one, but I see you point when You mentioned variations.
What this music does is (almost) inexplicable, your playing is beautiful, very much so.
If I may embark on an explanation it should be simply that motherly love emanates from your sense of rhythm and from the frame put forth by the composer, the subtle variations, there is created a vision for humanity.
I enjoy this immensely. Have created a playlist called Berceuse: >Valentina playing Chopin is first; then >Faure's Berceuse for violin & piano; >Satie's Nocturnes 1-6; >Faure's Pavanne w/ paintings by Monet; >Valentina playing Schubert's Impromptu op. 142 no. 3; >Domingo, Netrebko, & Villazon in Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz; >Saint Saens' Mon Coeur with Verrett & Vickers; >same aria with Gorr & Vickers; >Satie's Gnossiennes 1-6; last is >Saint Saens' The Swan.
@ valentina lisitsa - according to psychologists 2 hours is the maximum you can practice and your mind closes itself after that, so just relaxxxxxxx, chill, go shopping! have fun! no need to burden yourself until your hands bleed! :) i play piano too. even i play the totentanz your version is awesome, u can picture the dancing bones clearly. Im waiting for your chopin nocturne op posth in c sharp minor if you are doing it and the pathetique and tempest sonata. when will u upload it?Have u tried?
You're awesome! But I was wondering... I have listen to other versions of the "Berceuse", definitely one of my favourite Chopin pieces, and most of the greats, like Ashkenazy, give the left hand more rythm and play the right hand slower... Normally, I love the fast tempos (Gould playing Bach is unique), but in this case I think it should be slower (sorry)... will you do a slower version of this piece?
@TheBarbaciano When Chopin wrote this piece it didn't even have a title "Berceuse" - it was called variations brillants. It was added by the publisher later.
Classical variations have to stay in the same tempo unless indicated otherwise.What's good for the theme is fast for variations. But if theme is too slow , it is a funeral march not berceuse:-)
Chopin was just having fun with next-to-impossible filigree passagework.
My favorite rendition is Hoffmann and he is pretty darn fast :-)
@ValentinaLisitsa Your videos are amazing. Coming from a Bulgarian family of pianists I can say how much I appreciate all of your videos. Simply amazing.
As always, another glistening demonstration of your delicate touch, I love this piece! It was such an pleasure having the chance to meet you in Napa Valley last year, hopefully you can make it back to CA soon! Btw, any chance of you recording the scherzos too?
PEOPLE read the description she had less than 5 minutes! Incredible lyricism, control, touch, tone! You are truly an inspiration!
nickoicool 5 days ago
so fast...
levraitambaudias 1 week ago
this piece is great in the spring time
theblueisyou 1 week ago
i played this piece myself in a solo recital a few weeks ago and i still have this wonderful melody in my head. a pity that u rushed through it so fast - it's andante, but anyway nice playing.
maybe listen to my version of it that i've just uploaded ;)
pianoscheucher 3 weeks ago
Well if you had barely 5 mins to get out of the hall, you may be forgiven for rushing it this time! Most players would not be able to perfrorm it at this tempo if they wanted to and your skill is incredible, but for this particular peice, just a little slower is more enjoyable for most of us ordinary listeners.
GATTAPADRE 3 weeks ago
too fast.
jacgoya 1 month ago
Valentina, you're Great!!!!!!
fredjmp 1 month ago
like water running down a creek..
nonnaci 1 month ago
OMG soo FAST! : ) haha,
absolutely amazing and such respect to do wonderful artist.
Sloooow Dooooown! my serotonin and endorphins could catch up with this tempo!
=)
DanCur4991 1 month ago
that was beautiful and so well-executed, if i could play the piano like you i would be so happy.
TheHypersonic55 1 month ago
amazing but it seemed a bit rushed to me
edgeoflight01 1 month ago
You are amazing!
ewaade 1 month ago
Mrs. Lisitsa, do you mind if I... zzZZZzzZzzz....
FabioGhibli 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
thank's for sharing Valentina*****
1917NATURETV2017 1 month ago
Beautiful !!!
RockinSim 1 month ago
ZzzzzzzzzzzZzzzzzzzzzzz ... I would've wanted her to be my Nanny :p Would've suited her more than a pianist!
ZzzIwantToSleep 2 months ago
This one is from that time when music existed... Do you remember ?
claudiogoldman 2 months ago
Well, I think the performance is spellbinding and just can't help feeling great affection for this artist. I admit it's tempting to like somebody because they are very beautiful, but just sipping my New Year's Eve sherry and puffing my pipe and looking out the window I am still spellbound by a masterful and deeply thought out, very honest presentation. It is a wonderful privilege to have such company tonight. The camera work was done with subtle, excellent taste, may I add : )
yenrabaraho 2 months ago
I love your Chopin interpretation. Sounds like a beautiful poem. You remind me of Idil Biret.
DannyListening 3 months ago
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Search "Lisitsa Chopin" on Amazon and you will find it :) Not available anywhere else...
ValentinaLisitsa 3 months ago 4
One of my favorite Chopin pieces and she does it justice. Amazing pianist.
DonAgalloch 3 months ago
Piano de qualité or norme les notes sont tellement propres nettes et rondes les résonances sont magnifiques
tacle51 3 months ago
No me gusta, demasiado rápido... ¿Qué le pasa a esta señorita?
PinkyDynkydoo 4 months ago
Cool =) What for piano do you have ? I have a Yamaha Upright =)
Gandalf4568 4 months ago
That s because it s so fast,,haha, you had only 5 minutes, sorry too fastand not breathing, but wonderful technique...
toutouzim007 4 months ago
I Like
koja232 4 months ago in playlist รายการโปรดของ koja232
@koja232 Perdona, Hofmann no fué alumno de un alumno de Chopin, ese fue Alfred Cortot (otro gran pianista) , tambien te recomiendo que esuches a Vladimir de Pachmann
LluisVelaRos 4 months ago
I really want to know.....If you are not forced by the last 5 minutes, is that the tempo you really wanted to play? I love your interpretation of many works!
toolatetobeapianist 4 months ago
♥♫♪♫♫♥
just wonderful .....♥
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tenderness4you 4 months ago
Hmmm stunning technically but I wouldn't sleep listening to that and this kinda defeats its purpose. Slower? It's fine sometimes :). This is Chopin, not Liszt.
zechordlord 5 months ago
@zechordlord This song was not composed as a Berceuse, berceuse is a tittle that the editor of this piece gave to that composition... Please go a little bit far away than the name. Chopin hated names for its compositions. The language of emotions hasn't got words!.
LluisVelaRos 4 months ago
@LluisVelaRos Didn't know about that...the name fits wonderfully though. I don't know if I will change my opinion. It's not that I am against speed or jealous or anything, I just find that the emotions seep into me better when it's slower. it's a personal thing though, and you're right I shouldn't be so final about this.
zechordlord 4 months ago
@zechordlord Nobody feels emotions in the same way, the same thing happens with music! I'd like you know that Chopin used to dissaprove the excesive using of pedaling, the pedal use to be used when playing slow parts, listen some Vladimir depachmann recordings.
LluisVelaRos 4 months ago
In his precise and elegant french Chopin to his lady: " if your stupid dog don't quit pissing all over my sheets I am gonna have the fucking bitch put to sleep". Yes, the female dog Lalonde was doing that onto Chopin's freshly written-over note paper which was expensive. The joke, told in the conservatories, reflects how the Berceuse gets played these days as, for example, by Miss Lisitsa here...it is not your Mother's Berceuse, is it?...
fredericfranc 5 months ago
Oh Chopin what would I do without you?
4hm3dimr4n 5 months ago
Beautiful beyond words...
Valentina, when are you going to give us the Chopin Preludes? :)
runrunrun6777 5 months ago in playlist Classical
Esta música está interpretada muy rapido, ahy melodia un 90% en toda la pieza, se escucha plano, metronómico, no existe Rubato ni Saber de interpretación, para mi esta es como todos los demas pianistas tocandolo sin nada de sentimiento, me da pena ver como un 99% de pianistas en el mundo hacen quedar mal a los pianistas de esas epocas, y ya sabran de que hablo cuando suba mis videos, mientras tanto seguire escuchando mediocridad en internet y en el CNM del Peru.
TheProGunz2 5 months ago
@TheProGunz2 me gustaría escucharla a ver q tal, supongo que si lo dice así es pq conoce bien del tema pero no debería hablar con tanta prepotencia!
MrPepemarciano 5 months ago
@MrPepemarciano paciencia amigo, lo que digo parece prepotencia, pero mas que todo es critica, yo he visto a Valentina Lisitsa y para mi no es gran pianista, su forma de interpretar hace creer que es una pianista de alto nivel, pero, mas que todo, es como chicle para los oidos, pero ten paciencia, muy pronto vas a escuchar mi forma de interpretar, y si eres inteligente, sabras que tocar rapidito es muy facil, todos pueden, pero lo dificil es tocar lento, mas aun interpretar. Bueno, contactame.
TheProGunz2 4 months ago
@TheProGunz2 :) vale, entonces esperare, suena emocionante :D
MrPepemarciano 4 months ago
@TheProGunz2 Saludos, no creo que esta interpretación esté exenta de emoción, me parece muy bien tocada y con sentimiento, es más me parece muy contradictorio que me digas que está interpretada muy rápida, ¿Has escuchado las versionesde pianistas como Hoffman? Aún es más rapido... Has pensado que le problema no sea del pianista sino del piano? .
LluisVelaRos 4 months ago
@LluisVelaRos como he dicho antes y espero no volverlo a repetir, todo el mundo lo puede tocar rapidito, pero eso no es lo importante, para nada, se trata mas que todo de una excelente interpretación, para lograr eso ahy que escuchar demaciado, criticar mucho y pensar las cosas claras, obiamente te falta escuchar, y a Hoffman, aun no lo llegue a escuchar pero si lo toca mas rapido, debe de ser un desastre, y sobre si el problema no es el pianista, sino el piano, estas muy equivocado.
TheProGunz2 4 months ago
@TheProGunz2 Que sepas que estas juzgando a un excelente pianista pupila de uno de los mejores alumnos de Chopin sin conocerlo, primero, segundo, he tocado varios steinways y van muy mal para interpretar Chopin, el sistema de doble repetición moderno es el asesino más grande de la música de Chopin y su pianisimo. Además veo que poco entiendes de instrumentos pues un teclado pesado jamas será suave ya que requerirá una mayor fuerza en los dedos y por ello movimientos más bruscos.
LluisVelaRos 4 months ago
@LluisVelaRos Tengo mucha lastima tener que hablar de musica contigo porque ya veo que es imposible, primero, a lo del steinway veo que no me entendistes con sistema muy pesado y suave, pero no necesito que lo entiendas, segundo, para mi es completamente ignorante tener que escuchar a la jente que los pianisimos de chopan no son como todos los pianisimos que hay, eso ya es modificar el entendimiento de los dinámicos, y lo que mas odio es que cuando chopin dice PPP tocan mP, eso es una aberracion
TheProGunz2 4 months ago
(Cont) Entiendo que tu gusto particular (Que tiene una excesiva influencia en los pianistas modernos) puedan llevar a decirte lo que dices sin embargo el estilo de interpretar que tu me cuentas está muy alejado del sistema que defendía chopin, para una mayor comprensión desearía que te leyeras el siguiente libro "Chopin vu par ses élèves. Yo no digo como hay que tocar una canción, solo creo que tocarlo como chopin lo pensó va a hacer sentir a gente sensible aquello que Chopin quería decir.
LluisVelaRos 4 months ago
@LluisVelaRos y si deceas que lea ese libro que mencionas "Chopin vu par ses élèves", sera mejor que me lo envies ya sea en PDF porque no se comprar por internet, tendria que verlo ya que ese libro los escribieron sus alumnos, y eso no es muy confiable que digamos, el maestro puede decir muchas cosas pero el alumno no siempre dice lo mismo. Ademas, si Chopin quiso defender su forma de tocar, debio escribir con puño y letra lo que en verdad deberiamos escuchas de sus musicas....
TheProGunz2 4 months ago
@LluisVelaRos Ademas estoy cansado de escuchas a los demas tocando chopin de esa forma, dudo que el realmente aya querido que toquemos como sus alumnos dicen, es muy lamentable tener que escuchar a personas hablar asi de la música, y si tienes que responder, tengo muchas respuestas a lo que tengas que decirme. Si tienes que decirme algo a serca del Steinway de concierto, su mecanismo es el mejor que cualquier otro piano de concierto, tiene un excelente sonido y muy dificil de manejar.
TheProGunz2 4 months ago
@LluisVelaRos ...(Continuación)y para que sepas Lisitsa esta tocando en un Steinway & Songs de concierto, un piano con un sistema muy pesado y suave, cuando lo toques te daras cuenta y si no saber como controlarlo estas perdido. Ademas, si escuchas bien, te daras cuenta, "ya almenos se escucha la melodia", pero no ahy expresividad, para nada, todo es plano y seco. aunque se escuche como cancion de cuna, no lo es, espero de que te des cuenta y si tienes duda no olvides en responder.
TheProGunz2 4 months ago
Wow...this is a stunning performance. Does this pianist have any recorded material that is available for purchase? (Specifically of Chopin, if possible).
MrCavitysChessCorner 6 months ago
@MrCavitysChessCorner complicadísimo, en ese tiempo no había medios para retener el sonido, para grabar, por eso inventaron la notación musical, entonces solo nos queda escuchar a los que las interpretan!
MrPepemarciano 5 months ago
@MrPepemarciano
Lo siento, mi amigo. Yo viví en Puerto Rico para trés años pero no puedo hablar muy bueno ahora.
Si, es verdad y yo amo que eso es el medio normal. Especialmente para artistas como Chopin qui pusieron tanta emoción en su música.
MrCavitysChessCorner 5 months ago
@MrCavitysChessCorner
There's a DVD for sale at Amazon of the Chopin Etudes.
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RafaelaBL96 6 months ago
The fluidity of her playing really attracts me. She makes the piano keys look like their made of a silky cloud or something. Quite nice
BeatDemon08 6 months ago 18
Despite wearing a black dress and growing my hair long.
I still don't seem to be able to play like this. What am I doing wrong.?
I have been advised that I should purchase a piano, do you think this will help?
However, Stunning piece, beautifully recorded and filmed.
Harryvolting 6 months ago 32
@Harryvolting You've grown your hair long but...is it blond? Maybe that's the problem.
gustavoturm 5 months ago
@gustavoturm You're right! It was a blond moment. So I purchased the piano, now what?
My doctor, Basil Pesto GP tells me I only have enough life credits left to enable me to achieve Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with any proficiency.
Harryvolting 5 months ago
@Harryvolting Haha. Try fundamentals of piano practice by Chong.
gustavoturm 5 months ago
@Harryvolting : you'll also probably need someone to film you as you play the piano. :-) i like your sense of humor. i wish i had learned the piano, so many beautiful pieces such as this one.
ggiro 5 months ago
@ggiro You can learn the piano, unless you say you can't. My music teacher always seems to enjoy me coming along for a lesson and nearly always doubles up in fits of laughter when she opens the door and I'm standing there, Still.. Twinkle Twinkle, its a start and it was written by Mozart, wasn't it?
Harryvolting 5 months ago
@Harryvolting Ofc. Piano playing on a piano is so much better than on a keyboard.
Gandalf4568 4 months ago
@Gandalf4568 You're right, after the advice I recieved from my post I did purchase a piano, off of EBay for a reasonable price. the seller described it as "just having one key missing."
When it arrived I couldn't get the bloomin' lid open.
Harryvolting 4 months ago
love it!! ♫
MrPepemarciano 6 months ago
why is she wearing clothes? how am i supposed to enjoy this human?
andrespereyda 6 months ago
@andrespereyda By listening to her making amazing art ?? Lol Had you never seen a women before??? Its not because she is a piano virtuose that you can make any stupid comments like this about her.
benoitdrums1996 6 months ago
@benoitdrums1996 My perfectly WISE commentary succeeds, "not because she is a piano virtuoso", but because I WANTED TO see her naked, thinking that would make the video LOOK better. I HAD seen many a woman before. You make ME laugh. I listened a little bit, and I thought she was rushing it.
andrespereyda 6 months ago
@andrespereyda ok (Y)
benoitdrums1996 6 months ago
@benoitdrums1996 ok (N)
andrespereyda 6 months ago
@andrespereyda k
benoitdrums1996 6 months ago
@benoitdrums1996 kkk
andrespereyda 6 months ago
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andrespereyda 6 months ago
Lovely, lovely!
musicfanBRA 7 months ago
Hey Im just curious, if you said you recorded these as extras... does that mean you didnt know them at all until the day before you recorded them O.o???
Selendomono 7 months ago
Valentina this piece sounds awesome! The combinations of the notes with the flat keys make this piece very touching. You have the best expression with piano I have ever seen, including emotion.
maxwel411411411 7 months ago
Perfectly I may add too.
maxwel411411411 7 months ago
Quite wonderful, as is everything Valentina does.
LoverOfDebussy 7 months ago
...most Chopin bios will say that the idea for calling this Berceuse was definitely Chopin's, not any publisher's...and that there was a REAL BABY involved (fortunately Chopin WAS NOT the father, makes me think of Maury...or Steve Wilkos..."you ARE NOT the father!...")...but, yes, these were originally "variations"...Miss Lisitsa makes a new etude out of this...just do it, play like this in concerts...
fredericfranc 7 months ago
I love you!! You're brilliant!! I really really want to be you when I grow up. How many hours do you practice a day? Also, do you have any specific exercises you do to strengthen your fingers? I've been playing a while, but I sound like child's play next to you. I kind of get a lot of stitches. Especially in my thumbs.
RougeNoirDesir 7 months ago
holy shit that was amazing...im trying to play that piece right now and i cannot play it even as close to how fast you play it but im 13. your amazing
amarecarmeloknicks 7 months ago
@meredith21846 wow
jamesvozar1 7 months ago
Valentina, I just wanted to say that you're the sweetest pianist ever. Not that I've met you, but you're always nice to all the people instead of rude. While at the same time, not trying to be "cool". I love the way you play, and that it sounds and feels natural- lifts the soul. I started piano 4 years ago. I'm 16. I hope to be as great as you are someday. I really really do.
lolitaeviston 7 months ago
Wow you started at 4 and you're 16 and you've been playing for 12 years and still aren't as good as her? I've been playing piano fo 7 years since I was 8 and I am now 15. I am 15 years old now. I you obviously either didn't get a good teacher, didn't pay attention to what your teacher was saying, didn't follow instructions or listent to what your teacher was saying, tried to unsuccessfully teach yourself piano, or better yet you just didn't practice enough. Better luck next time buddy.
maxwel411411411 7 months ago
@maxwel411411411 I said I've been playing for 4 years. That means I started at 12.
lolitaeviston 7 months ago
Seriously I'm as good as her.
maxwel411411411 7 months ago
Try playing Chopin etude 25 op 6 in 1 minute and 30 seconds which I happily did.
maxwel411411411 7 months ago
13 people are totally deaf...
leomr60 8 months ago
Almost Perfect!!!!!
porto787 8 months ago
Wow! It flows like a gentle river...
TheStatue1 8 months ago
Very interesting about the tempi, my memory is old but I will look up Cortot's performance I don't think even he was so fast letting it rest in my mind I think it opens another insight, what a total distraction Youtube is
anthonybooth3 8 months ago
You know your music history! I love it how knowledgeable you are of the pieces you play, how you take the time to explain it's history to us, and what they were called before it was changed to something else. I think it's funny how pple wine and cry about how fast you play and little do they know that is exactly how you ought to do it.....I enjoy watching how fast but smooth your hands "go". haha...thank you!
DATSMY 9 months ago
You play this beautifully, perhaps slightly faster than Iike it but I envy your technique.
I am trying to learn to play this piece but I don't think I can ever accoplish this dream.
Very good. Great playing
gifropan 9 months ago
Beautiful...but...a little fast....:D
carrietide 9 months ago
My favorite interpretation is Kissin's (only because I can't find Martha's) because Kissin's tempo is just right for me. Not as slow as some, but not too fast. However, I don't mind your tempo. Just because you play it faster does not mean that you don't play it sensitively. The passagework is beautiful. Bravo!
Pianist46 9 months ago
I love it!
JEESherazi 9 months ago
To fast, i can't feel the melody, it just runs by. This should be slower
jspankin 9 months ago
Magnífico,belíssima interpretação!!!
anthony23493 9 months ago
realmente explendido!!!!!
anthony23493 9 months ago
Beautiful. My favorite rendition is by Novaes, but really there is no comparing - this is lovely and unique and interesting as with all the great pianists.
mycatsapunk 9 months ago
no me gustan esos pianos, me gustan mas los pleyel, como el que tenia chopin, creo que sonaria mejor en uno de esos, tal como el lo escuchaba
cechema 9 months ago
Some feelings can only be described by music, and only by a select group of musicians... like you, Valentina!
AlcidesConstante 9 months ago
you're derivation of elegance from complexity is positively stunning. ...thank you sharing this most beautiful gift of yours.
smpryde1 9 months ago
Fastness is not everything!
TarekPianoMan 10 months ago
@ValentinaLisistsa I'm currently playing this song, and from 1:47 - 2:11 I have played it over and over and over. It's a big challenge to be able to play that part as fast as it is, and it seems like you had no problem with it!
linkdeas3 10 months ago
When I listen to you play this piece it is what I imagine heaven to be like.
luckylainie 10 months ago
Great job! This was my first time hearing this piece and I was following the sheet music throughout most of it, lol this is some hard stuff!! You are a fantastic pianist! I love your Chopin interpretations very much =)
HoldenPiano 10 months ago
hey valentina do you have a recording of chopin fantasie impromptu op 66?
killergoku56 10 months ago
Absolutely sublime playing and music. You play this so lightly, just as a lullaby should sound. Your piano is exquisite, so very musical. Must be a joy to play, as well. Thank you!!
Inlandings 11 months ago
exquisite!
NJFordPops08005 11 months ago
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bestcisters 11 months ago
I don't have a favorite Chopin piece, but for me this is at the top of any list I could imagine. To me it is a very under appreciated piece.
dfranklin70 11 months ago
Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of yours. You are very talented, which goes without saying. Thanks for your video's.
davidbaker03 11 months ago
wonderful talent, but the most insensitive version of this piece. can't you show off your fingers in a different piece? I know you have your reasons for the tempo, but anything can be justified for any piece, or any belief. Does not make it beautiful. Its robotic, and I am sure Chopin himself would have not played, or wanted it played so mechanically with not musical thought.
davidbaker03 11 months ago
Exceptional.
Psem5 11 months ago
You are amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I like pieces played with a rhythm , if it's so slow it is boring, you did a GREAT Job
jspankin 11 months ago
I find you an inspiration...such a delight to watch is your beautiful technique and sensitive playing!
Thank you.
David - London
poplarboydavid 11 months ago
@ValentinaLisitsa will u be comin 2 india??
ttomace 11 months ago
hi valentina!! i really hope i can see you someday live in a concert! have you ever, or will you come to Mondavi center in Davis to perform?
zzhhaannggddii 1 year ago
In my opinion...too fast...
Eisis88 1 year ago
in my eyes with every song shez plays wether beethoven on chopin she brings so much emotion out with in every piece she piece,
valentina you brought a tear to my eye, you are the best xxx thank you for sharing ur talent with the world
andrewstackj 1 year ago
Sounds like water gently flowing in a small stream...
musicfanBRA 1 year ago
hoffmann is too fast, the rest of the guys is too slow. yours rendition is the best i guess=]
tomthemodeloso 1 year ago
I wish I could play soft and fast at the same time. This is so beautiful, I could actually fall asleep to it :)
MsThisNameIsTaken 1 year ago
Beautiful playing, Valentina. Also, that piano and that hall. What a gorgeous sound. I love Hamburg Steinways but obviously that one was special ... the pick of the litter, so to speak.
jp1110107 1 year ago
This is, without doubt, one of the most beautiful works every written. Beautifully performed. Many Thanks
Davan.
Perth
Australia
DavanfromOz 1 year ago
I love how you are playing without any shoes lol I tried to do that at church and they wouldn't let me do that.
mrjwowza 1 year ago
It is beautiful to see her fingers in the black of the piano.
Lovely!
ENOFJA 1 year ago
My inspiration!...Thank you
TJAcoustic 1 year ago
now go listen to "Peace Piece" by Jazz pianist Bill Evans.
/watch?v=RjM8G4VwAqY
ZRMDMK 1 year ago
You have a beautiful way of relating the nuances of emotion through your play.
Chopin wrote the piece, and if I may...his intention was to express the deepest parts of ourselves when we are alone. Valentina, I think you have done just that!
noclouds111 1 year ago
hypnotic and beautiful
pad085 1 year ago
You've surpassed technique and theory, and create beauty each time you sit down at the piano. Please come back to NYC and play Chopin for us!
runrunrun6777 1 year ago
Greetings from Croatia Valentina! i hope there will be more new videos from you? i just subscribed you and i'm sad that i haven't done it before...
I really enjoy your interpretations!! especially La Campanella by Liszt...it's absolutely amazing!!
Cheers!!
Enjoy!
DiamondDimebagDarrel 1 year ago
No doubt about it in my mind Valentina, in light of the fact that the Beceuse was titled by a publisher, you set this one on fire... as Chopin likely intended. I love the way you rip up and down the keys.
I find that a lot of pieces naturally drift into an appropriate tempo. I wish I had the technical mastery that this piece demands, and that you showcase so eloquently.
loosecannonondeck 1 year ago
You play the Prokofiev concerto no. 3?! Wow, I don't need more happiness anymore, I got it all right now...!!!
cafity 1 year ago
I just think it's too damn fast. Otherwise, amazing.
hymnofashes 1 year ago
You are quite well on the piano. I was wondering, do you have perfect pitch?
Trombonist550 1 year ago
This interpretation has much to recommend it. The colours are delicate, the finger work flawless and lucid. There's consistent clarity and transparency across the voices.
I prefer the piece played slower, and don't share Valentina's concern that a drop in tempo would render it a "funeral march".
It might be the case that the optimal tempo for the variations should dictate the tempo of the theme; not the other way round.
This is merely a suggestion - all respect to this marvellous artist.
larryandmonty 1 year ago
This woman is amazing!
dryllow 1 year ago
bravissima
Taitu76 1 year ago
YEAH SHE NEVER TOOK HANON THAT MEANS I DON'T HAVE TOO
MrNoookie 1 year ago
Are you serious?
Today was my FIRST time ever watching a You Tube video with classical music which i occasionally listen to, and I am just recently learning to play piano. I am completely IN LOVE with your videos, your playing style, and your renditions of these songs!!!
I am seriously a huge fan!!!
VomitingBlood 1 year ago
This is now my favorite video on youtube- please don't ever take it down!!!!
:)
pyramidion 1 year ago 12
1:36 so cute <3
EnzoFoove 1 year ago
Thank you for sharing all this wonderful music with us- i really admire your performances of Chopin, and this may be my favorite of all!
I saw you perform with Hilary Hahn about a year and a half ago in NYC, and i hope to see you again sometime.
pyramidion 1 year ago
love it. You cant imagine how many times i have heard this video :)
buxilala 1 year ago
Incredibly tender.
aesthetic1950 1 year ago
Another million thanks, Valentina.
I too enjoy the faster tempos for this piece.
While the slower renditions are indeed splendid, your interpretaions are magnificent. Best wishes,
Signed, your friend.
loosecannonondeck 1 year ago
Thank you, Valentina. Your performance of this piece is at once serene and stirring. Absolutely captivating and impossible to stop watching. I find new things I love about it each time I listen to it.
josephmooneyiii 1 year ago
Fascinating barefoot Chopin, fascinating that this piece again and again will communicate this peaceful mood. I think Chopin was very aware of the berceuse-like mood though he also enjoyed making next-to-impossible filigreework :)
AlfaAxel 1 year ago
Fascinating barefoot Chopin, fascinating that this piece again and again will communicate this peaceful mood.
AlfaAxel 1 year ago
Beautiful as always. X
jbjcjb 1 year ago
Im learning that piece right now, lovely piece, has its tricky parts.
1:47 section is killing me, no matter how slow I take it and master it, when I try to speed up, it falls apart-its not the syncopation thats bad, its just the key/finger relation.
I like the background You gave on the piece in one of the comments. In Paderewski edition He suggested andante, to be honest I like rather slower tempo on this one, but I see you point when You mentioned variations.
Outstanding clarity, love it!!
animelf 1 year ago
What this music does is (almost) inexplicable, your playing is beautiful, very much so.
If I may embark on an explanation it should be simply that motherly love emanates from your sense of rhythm and from the frame put forth by the composer, the subtle variations, there is created a vision for humanity.
AlfaAxel 1 year ago
I love your "LOL"'s they make me lol!!!! XD
monobrow638 1 year ago
I enjoy this immensely. Have created a playlist called Berceuse: >Valentina playing Chopin is first; then >Faure's Berceuse for violin & piano; >Satie's Nocturnes 1-6; >Faure's Pavanne w/ paintings by Monet; >Valentina playing Schubert's Impromptu op. 142 no. 3; >Domingo, Netrebko, & Villazon in Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz; >Saint Saens' Mon Coeur with Verrett & Vickers; >same aria with Gorr & Vickers; >Satie's Gnossiennes 1-6; last is >Saint Saens' The Swan.
citrin35 1 year ago
@ valentina lisitsa - according to psychologists 2 hours is the maximum you can practice and your mind closes itself after that, so just relaxxxxxxx, chill, go shopping! have fun! no need to burden yourself until your hands bleed! :) i play piano too. even i play the totentanz your version is awesome, u can picture the dancing bones clearly. Im waiting for your chopin nocturne op posth in c sharp minor if you are doing it and the pathetique and tempest sonata. when will u upload it?Have u tried?
niru54321 1 year ago
Well I would say that it was a 5 minutes very well spent. LOL.
edwardpiercy 1 year ago
You're awesome! But I was wondering... I have listen to other versions of the "Berceuse", definitely one of my favourite Chopin pieces, and most of the greats, like Ashkenazy, give the left hand more rythm and play the right hand slower... Normally, I love the fast tempos (Gould playing Bach is unique), but in this case I think it should be slower (sorry)... will you do a slower version of this piece?
TheBarbaciano 1 year ago 4
@TheBarbaciano When Chopin wrote this piece it didn't even have a title "Berceuse" - it was called variations brillants. It was added by the publisher later.
Classical variations have to stay in the same tempo unless indicated otherwise.What's good for the theme is fast for variations. But if theme is too slow , it is a funeral march not berceuse:-)
Chopin was just having fun with next-to-impossible filigree passagework.
My favorite rendition is Hoffmann and he is pretty darn fast :-)
ValentinaLisitsa 1 year ago 19
@ValentinaLisitsa what an answer !! :P
develish16 1 year ago
@ValentinaLisitsa
Thank you Valentina! I learn so much from you. It is so interessting what you write all about those composers. You're amazing!
deporchica 10 months ago
@ValentinaLisitsa Your videos are amazing. Coming from a Bulgarian family of pianists I can say how much I appreciate all of your videos. Simply amazing.
pimpninja1985 10 months ago
@TheBarbaciano this is lovely indeed but a bit slower mite be lovlier but.......i don't want to mess with beauty
edeann 1 year ago
@TheBarbaciano this is lovely indeed but a bit slower mite be lovlier but.......i don't want to mess with beauty nor can i
edeann 1 year ago
As always, another glistening demonstration of your delicate touch, I love this piece! It was such an pleasure having the chance to meet you in Napa Valley last year, hopefully you can make it back to CA soon! Btw, any chance of you recording the scherzos too?
chopin114 1 year ago 3
@chopin114 I will be in Santa Rosa playing with Symphony on Nov 6th-8th.
Doing Liszt #1 and Totentanz
ValentinaLisitsa 1 year ago 4
@ValentinaLisitsa Any chance to came to Brazil?
dryllow 1 year ago
Grazie Valentina. Un saluto.
Umberto
ustarac 1 year ago