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  • the shots of her hands looked like they got the benny hill fast forward treatment.

  • ” And then I took an arrow to the knee”

  • UAU! UAU! BRAVO!

    Incrível! Unbelievable, impossible! A human being can't be that FAST AND ACCURATE! You're divine! Please come to Portugal!!

  • black and pink? This sounds totally wrong if you know what I mean....

  • now if only she was topless....

  • good fingers! :))))

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  • Oh my god.. wut. This is brilliant! [:

  • as if her fingers didn't touch the piano at all !!!

  • Ive only learned the first page of this song, and it aint feeling well for my fingers.

  • BARBIE + Skillful playing + Wonderful peice= am out of my mind

  • WOW! O_o She's Awesome!

  • Genius.

    

  • I can think of much better use for those hands.

  • My piano teacher was practising this piece for almost 3 years until he played it all perfectly. Gosh!

  • awtz parang kaka ngimi yang tugtugin xD.......

    

  • YUNDI LI'S LA CAMPANELLA IS MUCH BETTER :]]

  • holy crap it looks like her right hand only brushes the keys :P

  • id bang

  • Any time from 3:30 onwards became a totall mind fuck.

  • Valentina, I love you

  • @timmer7000 me too...but she is second choice, then yundi

  • After listening to Liszt, Chopin´s music seem little gay lol.

    Dont get me wrong, i love both of them.

    This piece is simply awesome, and this could be the best interpretation ever.

    Maybe Liszt could play it better? I wouldnt dare to say that ;-)

  • Master Piece !

  • so wonderful ... wow ...

  • o.O

  • yknow.... I always respect someone for playing a piece faster or slower than intended. It changes the way you listen to it. Like how glenn gould plays bach. I know the bach situation is different than with liszt but still. its experimentation.

  • she looks funny ,, like a kid bec of that pink dress

  • No comment, simply AWESOME! Thanks for sharing the video with us mortals :-)

  • She has a perfect clock in her head. I think Kasparov should be glad she chose piano.

  • @jfdonnald kasparov, as in chess? (why would she need a mental clock for chess?)

  • I like how the melody jumps from left to right through the whole song :)

  • cziffra piu' veloce e preciso ed anche con molti piu' abbellimeti ifatt qualsiasi cosa che suona iol dio cziffra lo rende reale cioe' dal titolo lui fsa rivivere la cosa in oggetto:) ineguagliabile in tutto non ce n e' per nessuno se si gira ci si accorge che nei vari pezzi e interpretazioni qualcuo l ha fatt piu' veloce di lui ma meno corretto poi giri su you tube o altro e scopri altre incisioni il 40% piu' veloci e precise sia delle sue che degli altri incredibile

  • LOL would this be considered exercising xD I wonder how many calories your arms & hands burn playing this piece

  • I love the part at 1:15 and 1:32

  • I played that! But after 14 years and 4 years of practice.

  • For people saying she's playing it too fast, think of the tempo Liszt played this at... It makes me shudder at the thought....

  • oh snap you're good =0

    i play this at half the speed with about 10000 times as many wrong notes

  • Brilliant...It' has your own character and personality....what a pleasurable experience that is...

    I notice there is some imbecile comments on how fast or slow Valentina should be playing the piece...LOL..these asinine individuals completely lack discernment & knowledge of the history of classical music in general.

  • ....Continued... They have NO scholarship whatsoever, to make such disabled comments. I propose to those implied, rather than telling Valentina how to "do her job", to create a video response showing how they themselves are incapable or capable of performing the piece better than what she does.If you talk the talk, you got to walk the walk, that's how it's done, because talk is just too cheap.

  • For the idiots signing on to their accounts just to negatively comment about one's clothing(the dress) while Valentina is excecuting La Campanella with such love and intensity.....are you serious??....how vain, how shallow and empty can one be to "open their mouth", while one is loving to the piano so deeply? I notice the music, the proficiency, the hands, the movements, and the passion involved in it.... Yep, What a lucky piano that is....

  • ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhh sway with meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • I love the white music.

  • she plays it way too fast

  • Just curious, how many hours do you practice a day?

  • @Andytheminstrel I remember her saying in an interview etc. that she practices about 10-12 hours whenever she has got time. She also stated that 15 hours makes one's brain explode and it leaves sticky goo on the keys... LOL! Valentina is indeed blessed not only with the talent of playing piano, but also with a witty sense of humor! :D

  • You are AMAZING!!

  • A well done interpretation of a piece that i'm sure liszt and paganini would have been happy to hear it. oh and your hands scare the crap out of me.

  • That trill passage is inhuman.

  • Whoa!!

  • subarasi-

  • zu schnell und unsauber

  • Потрясающая музыка! Потрясающие руки! Великая пианистка! Красотища! Спасибо!

  • it looks almost like your hand stretches out to Liszt's size size when you play this! Truly amazing, and better technique than Horowitz.

  • ЭТО ПОТРЯСАЮЩЕ ВЕЛИКОЛЕПНО МНЕ ВПЕРЫВЫЕ ПРИЯТНО СМОТРЕТЬ НА ЖЕНЩИНУ ПИАНИСТКУ

  • wow, Valentina, you found a bunch of trolls! But you put them in their place.

    Let me just say I love your execution of this piece. Bravo!

  • nice.

  • i think she has 4 hands, i swear :)))

  • 71 people can't play " la campanella" with this technique ;)

  • @CesaTiroCesa more like cant understand it

  • @CesaTiroCesa i'd say 99.9% of the people who watched this can't play LOL it's an insane piece played by an insane(ly awesome) pianist ;)

  • Valentina- you should've been the 'sit in' when this was played throughout Shine! Your interpretation is truly magnificent and visceral.

  • Barbie ! 0_o

  • When I first came in and watched the video. I was like "WDF, such nice hand movements by an annoymous amateur!???" and I was like "Ah~~ Valentina!"

  • Your Hands Are Going Without You O___o veramente pazzesco!

  • Hi. Very nice! Where did you do your piano study?

  • i don't know if i feel this way because i saw the slow version first but i like the slow version,which is still too fast to me, better. i think if you're playing piano, you should play it like you're playing piano not violin. also, i think your crescendos and diminuendos are weak. Your tempo is so consistent that it sounds like a machine playing. but well done. besides, if you can play la campanella like a "machine," at least no one can say that it's bad

  • @ReminiscenceS2 listen to Cziffra play la campanella, fast and absolutely not like a machine, eureka! it can be done! xD but that is Cziffra, not Lisitsa or Kissin or Yundi Li.

  • one of the best, good performance!

  • Extraordinario

  • she has to have some biceps in her fingers!

  • Q: What's pink, black, white and is AWESOME?

    A: The Pink Panther in a suit

    nahh........ jokes, jokes......

    It's the skills and perfection demonstrated in this video. VL, your AWESOME!!! :D

  • the dress...................

  • Complimenti...paradisiaco!!!

  • I liked it. But for me, nothing can touch Josef Lhevinne's interpretation. It's just...adorable!

  • VALENTINE LOVE U ,PLEASE SEE MY PAGANINI TRIBUTE AT JACKSON2012MUSIC THANK YOU !! I LOVE YOU.YOU MAKE MY WORLD A REALITY !!

  • Sure, i cant play better than that. But if i compare your performance with the others ( for that song), there is a certain thing that, you are playing without a soul. I felt like watching a student that preparing for an exam. Not a pianist playing and make the listeners feel the song.

  • GODDAMN !!! it is so gooood ... thank you very much for sharing this video with us ... i don`tknow how often i watched it already ^^

  • My wrists would absolutely turn into stone. And no this is not too fast at all! Amazing.

  • you just blew my mind

  • I am currently learning how to play piano - Grade 1, age 21 :(

    But I really admire the one you play - so smooth and natural. Don't your fingers or hands get tired playing at such speed and for so long?! :O

  • this is literally disturbing space and time. well done.

  • well it's nothing like cziffra's performance, but i suppose that would be unrealistic expectations :(

  • beautiful

  • yes, chopin said ALLEGRETO not PRESTO but i like it 

  • bravo, I don't know what people are thinking, but you have it on the proper tempo.

  • Is this you playing? I like this interpretation, but it is a bit fast. Violin and piano are 2 different instruments, and in my honest opinion, should be treated as such. Just saying :P Otherwise, this is a very accurate transcription. Some of this stuff looked too easy for the player. If you don't mind me asking... how wide is your span? (more than an octave, I assume)

  • Shit.... first time i hear the song and hear u play and im :O... literally... no comments

  • I watch this video everyday. I wish i could play like you.

  • omg! you're my new favourite!

  • Whoa. Speachless...

  • I am still just amazed at how she can play at such a fast tempo and not miss a note.

    I followed along with the score and couldnt see a mistake.

    I can play this piece, and I can play it quickly also, but I ALWAYS make a mistake.

    I have never been able to get throught the whole thing without messing up somewhere. Hats off....

    You win. LOL.  Great job!

  • tecnica magnifica

  • she has man hands:D

  • Another great Campanella: "La Campanella" played by Alicia de Larrocha. I really recomend it!!!!

    You can find it in You Tube.

  • I'm a 15 year old novice pianist from the Philippines, and I want to say that you are one of my favorite pianists :)

  • pleeassee tell me your fingering... you make some changes that make the piece much easier on smaller hands

  • What is that magnificent overlap ( or is it delay) that happens at 1:25 to 1:30 ?? How does she do that. It blows the mind.

    and in the end she is like Carrie!!!

  • wow i ike her hands im also a pianist.... but its kind of.......... how. many years did you study piano?

  • wow i ike her hands im also a pianist....

  • Cziffra performance is very well, that is the right tempo. also see AYApiano performance, also very good and listen to YW1935 performance, a young 12 years girl, a bit too slow but very very well played.

  • But its tpo fast, the right tempo is like JUndi Li , Kissing And Lang Lang. check thaT.

  • @antonius0123456789 Try Cziffra's performance :-)

  • too fast

  • @antonius0123456789 Liszt idolized Paganini and he wanted piano to sound like Paganini's virtuoso violin. The theme is borrowed fromPaganini and if you check ANY violinist playing it - the tempo is always the same( Kogan , Heifetz, Accardo...) and it is MUCH quicker than piano attempts. yes , they don't have those pesky skips and other technical fifficulties - but this not an excuse for any pianist to play it in half-tempo!!!!Search youtube for :Paganini Campanella Violin

  • Awesome

  • @ValentinaLisitsa I love your playing, but I must mention that as you said, Liszt borrowed only the theme from Paganini and he composed his own peice based on that. He wanted his version to be played in Allegretto tempo not Presto, since his arrangement of this theme doesn't need to be played that fast to achieve the goal of sounding like Paganini's virtouso violin.

  • @Drake126 If you care to take a look at the violin score it is also marked Allegretto Grazioso. To my knowledge there are no arguments between violinists about the tempo of this piece. Signature 6/8 is counted in 2, not in 6 - any conductor will tell you that (remember this is for violin AND orchestra?). Difficulties that come with jumps in such tempo are no concern to Liszt and if you think that this is a hard piece in such tempo look into erlier version of it called Grand Bravura Fantasy :)

  • @ValentinaLisitsa Fair enough, though it seems I'm unable to find sheets for "Grand Bravura Fantasy on Paganini's La Campanella S.420 (1832)" :/

  • @ValentinaLisitsa don't listen to them; you played it BEAUTIFULLY! perfect tempo in my opinion. there were very few points where you could have slowed it down a bit maybe towards the end, but great! kissin plays it with similar tempo and i'm sure Liszt did as well..

  • @ValentinaLisitsa

    Playing it at half-tempo isn't bad though... it sounds really good sometimes. But it is good that there are interpretations of both speeds. It would be boring if all interpretations were ONLY slow, or only fast.

  • @ValentinaLisitsa

    Oh, by the way, awesome interpretation.

    In my first comment, I didn't realize it was actually you who owned the channel! I don't know what I expected, though, haha.

  • @antonius0123456789 Check out

    youtube.com/watch?v=lWaOnqmtr9­U

  • @ValentinaLisitsa the site doesnt exist ^^

  • isnt fast, it suposed to be the fastest posible and virtuoso.

  • @antonius0123456789 That's just your opinion. She may like it the way she's playing it, and you may like it...uh...well...the way you like it. If I go in your house and I don't like the color of your walls, i wouldn't say, "Hey, whose the IDIOT who painted the walls green, with red stripes?" Maybe I would tell my friend behind your back(: but not directly to you. (I'm not saying ur house is green, with red stripes. Just an example.)

  • magistral interpretación de "La Campanella" de Paganini en las manos de Valentina Lisistsa

  • Look at her hands. It looks like it has been possessed. Seems like the devil's playing the piano. (3:37)

  • WOWWWWWWW

  • Who is she?

  • @toshiyuki8 She is Valentina Lisitsa, famous pianist from Ukraine.

  • @MrFortepianist Thank you very much.

  • Horrible, just check Alicia de la Rocha's quality and expression as a close sample... This girl is like a circus: I just admire her speed, her hability , but I can not appreciate the music ... I don't get into the music with her interpretation, SORRY!

  • @dancingwithoutwords Great. I thought this was amazing until I searched Alicia de la Rocha and heard her. You are absolutely right.

  • Woah! Can I have your hands? lol..

  • Very talented pianist for sure. This is a relatively subdued rendering.

    At 2:31 her hand looked like a giant spider caught in its own web and frantically trying to run away.

  • dude this is so emotionless ...... i mean she is good but still no emotion in the piece 

  • @TheMidnight92 Your comment is totally bull-shit!!!!

  • Brilliant!! Love it!

  • her playing has no emotion -_-

  • @valkyrieXI .... I'm very.... very tired of hearing that.... you know what... you can't effing play paganini with emotion you're to worried with hitting the notes 5 octaves apart in under .5 seconds...

  • @valkyrieXI I hate that statement. To me it's more pleasant to watch & hear Valentina's graceful, yet intensive playing than watch some awkward performer doing weird gestures, looking like he/she would be suffering and adding unnecessary "interpretative" dynamics etc. However, I do admit that this isn't Valentina's best performance of this piece. The one where she has the red dress (the Seoul encore) is soooo much better.

  • @valkyrieXI Because jumping 2 octaves in... oh idk a tenth of a second is SOOO easy. most people could never even dream to play like her! yourself included.

  • She awesome, but the pink background ruïns it...

  • how can i be like her? O.o SHe's SOOOOO GOOOOD!!! :D i want to play this but it's too fast! T__T

  • i wonder what she can do with her toes!!

  • Dayum did someone Fast Forward her hand motions =) How in hell do you move ur fingers like that ...

  • @Wnee93 Don't think, just play! They pray that you hit the right notes.

  • 63 dislikes.... someone care to elaborate?

  • @OnSilverFingers They're just jealous...

  • it makes me sick that shes so good. i love her

  • Valentina, I think you were amazing!EPIC PIANING

  • Doesn't look like sg a human being can play! Amazing.

  • I dont see any "pro feeling"

  • @Jmondrux a.q

  • amcing fingers.

  • First of all this is 'youtube' there is no sense of atmosphere,both recordings r filmed under different conditions,Lisitsas especially doesn't have the acoustics that Kissins has.I spent 3 years studying piano at the Royal Academy, spending time and listening to some of the greatest concert pianists in the world, Brendel, Argerich, Lisitsa and Kissin,i can assure you that in a concert hall (not on your computer) that there is very little between any of them, thats why there all Concert pianists

  • i also learnt do develop good hearing/ listening techniques, and can tell you that Kissin plays far more wrong notes than lisitsa in this particular performance..Ok your opinion is fine but judging by your attempts at playing classical music, maybe you should start paying more attention to your own timing, technique, and musical ability? I don't care whether or not you care who i am, all i can say is i have the educated background and over 20 years as a professional musician.

  • @IhatejonasandHSM its cuz theres she uses very little pedal.

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  • @CiudadJuerga ok so i checked out your channel, and your half hearted attempt at the revolutionary etude, which you absolutely murdered. It annoys me when people like you criticise or underestimate the time a pianist puts into learning and perfecting a piece, just for some wannabe musician to come along and pretend they know better. ps. i played op.10 no.12 for my finals at the Royal Academy :)

  • @mrpolaroid123 It's a difficult piece to play. But I'm not underestimating lisitsa performance. it's good. but is not as good as kissin. I think her performance is too flat. I don't care who you are or if you are close to Lisitsa. I just can tell you the truth and many people would agree as soon as they check kissins performance in London. it's about correct timing. You don't have to study to notice differences and apreciate music. This opinion doesn't harm any one but you.

  • i play this :)

  • @IhatejonasandHSM yundi li is not crappy, you are!

  • @IhatejonasandHSM Hahaha! Yundi Li's version is better :)

  • @IhatejonasandHSM

    Despite the poor audio quality of the Lundi performance, it is played with significantly more energy and significantly faster tempos which are essentially what the piece is about.

    Also, in a number of places, despite the incredibly minor (and considering the complexity of the piece forgivable) nature of them, there are places in this performance which are simply uncleanly played. Lundi's sounds cleaner to me.

  • This is like lang lang, fast fingering, but is to flat. This is nothing compared to evgeny kissin's interpretation. You'll notice the differencr quickly, beetwen someone just playing and someone made for the music.

  • @CiudadJuerga play it ya self do you, critical little swine... :)

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  • @IhatejonasandHSM maybe the dress? no, yundi li plays it two tones above.

  • amazing!!!!!!

  • The left hand is beautiful in this piece. It's like no other

  • i love this.

    bravo!

  • Your right hand moves so fast. That real set the bar for me on how good I want to become in a couple of years. Wonderful playing loved it

  • is barbie playing the piano?

  • @irvguitar This made me laugh for a good solid minute. Granted, I'm stoned. But still. My initial reaction to this video was "Hmmm, very.... pink...".... Very David Lynch.

  • @irvguitar Believe me, as famous and envied as she is (weird things to be said about a doll...) Barbie would murder to be Valentina :))

  • @irvguitar Sorry , I ahte the dress too :-) 

  • @ValentinaLisitsa what they made u wear the dress lol or something but ur playing rocks ur loke a rockstar on the piano

  • @ValentinaLisitsa I like your blue dress, the one you wore while playing etude 12 op 25 (Chopin) and a few others

  • @ValentinaLisitsa I love this dress. and the music sounds very pleasant. THank you!

  • @ValentinaLisitsa Why are you wearing it than???

    Greetings from Belgium

    U're very good Valentina

  • it played too fast, in my opinion.

    but she's sooooo awesome! wooww....brilliant

  • omg i wish i had like even a fraction of her talent :S

  • @IhatejonasandHSM man you just entered my goddamn black list....are serious??Yundi Li's performance is by far untouchable...especially from this one...the break at the end is far less passionate here and without the right attitude....it has some micro details tha make yundis just right..its like watchdog66 said his signature piece and crappy goes way too far...

  • @IhatejonasandHSM Please read my comment, which I erroneously sent to bonjourr.