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  • awnsome

  • bought this single today because of how she played this.

  • she is playing one of the most amazing pieces...and yet she looks so sad...

  • This is bar far one my most favorite sonatas and could not have been composed by anyone else but Beethoven. It is so moving to me that when I hear it, the tears flow because of it's bittersweet melody. It never fails to take my breath.

  • Hermosa la interpretación pero el motivo fundamental termina pareciendo un "dosillo".

  • greetz from Holland, I saw you on the Pauw&witteman show!

  • This is so serenading.

  • Beautiful, goosebumps all over!

  • i wonder why nobody wants to marry her!

  • 61 people disliked because they were deaf and the video description didn't satisfy them.

  • It looks like you're petting the keys and its magically making sounds effortlessly. Wow. Amazing.

  • You are AMAZING. I love this.

  • Just had to sign up to listen and watch Valentina Lisita play all three movements. Would that a friend from over 40 years ago, Judy McDowell, could see and hear this genius.

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  • 60 Dislikes - This is not Justin Bieber's page. GTFO.

  • @HaNeves she is not...

  • This sent shivers down my spine, it is so moving...

  • I love the way you play the Moonlight Sonata's 1st movement a bit faster. I've also started playing it and I love the way your version sounds. Very inspiring ! Thank you

  • Amazing,lovely gift you have.thank you for sharing.

  • Amazing! Maybe a bit faster then what I am used to hearing, but you play it with such great feeling!

  • Bit fast . Good feel though. And it's still very good. I think it's sounds deeper and sadder slower

  • he look's like Olivia Dunham, also this way of playing piano it's much of a Fringe case

  • love it

    love it

    love it!

  • Wow ... wordless ... magnificent

  • BEAUTIFUL! I love classical.

  • BEAUTIFUL! I learned to play the first part of this movement, when I was younger. I don't play the piano, but I do the violin. So I had to transpose the bass clef into treble to learn to play the bottom staff! Not nearly as well as this young lady, though. That would be blasphemous to even suggest it!

  • Goosebumbs throughout the whole song

  • I weeping all the time when I listening this piece...so awesome...

  • "god i want a 110 billion dollars."

    "no thats too much money"

    "god i want to play piano like Valentina Lisita"

    "oh... how much money did you want again?"

  • I wish to buy this on cd. I mean this very performance. Or - even better - on vinyl.

  • I'm speechless.

    How much time took you to master to such degree the grand piano?It seems like you've been doing it for several lives.

  • In both this video and her Moonlight sonata 3rd, she has about .000101% of viewers dislike her video. This means that if every human on earth saw her video, only Detroit would dislike it.

  • I cant hear a proffessional play this without getting a tear in my eye! It´s so beautiful,and the interpetation is so perfect that i just get stunned! Flawless!

  • simply amazing 

  • mm siempre la tocan muy suave pienso que esa pieza tiene más fuerza y misterio que otra cosa, incluso más que dulzura.

  • Every time I se her playing I wish I had started myself, seems so placid.

  • 58 stupid monkeys xDD

  • please come to beethoven saal "Liederhalle" in stuttgart =)

  • Brilliant, perfect interpretation - amazing.

  • Don't know how many times I've listened to this piece but I never got bored listening to it.

    Just Love It♥

  • Purity

  • I must say to you young lady unlike the other 30 or so renditions of this peace, you seem to play it to perfection.

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  • I only signed up to YouTube to leave this one comment:

    This is just pure awesomeness!!!

  • @OnlyThisComment you are the fucking shit (:

  • not bad, i still think horowitz packs more emotion in his version.

  • Muy bien, me gusta mucho, felicitaciones !!

  • my hands won't stop moving as yours are playing the piano..the sound just makes you move them.

    Your TALENT

    IS

    AMAZING!

  • are your hands insured? haha i just discovered your channel. so much to hear and listen. thank you

  • May I call her Lady Steinway?

  • @zoromon12

    No ! Bösendorfer !! :-)

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  • Beautiful, both the music and the pianist...

  • Goosebumps

    

  • 554,000 <-- Me

    000,803 <-- The rest of the world

    

  • @Tyrfingr

    So how is it? traveling the world on your private jet?

  • @HolyEyEolo It's a nosedive into the ground every morning when i awake from that dream. Then it is promptly followed by a chilling scream when reality once again rapes my innocent mind to remind of the fact, that what awaits me beyond the door is another trek by foot through the cold and rain.

    Give me wings! ;'(

  • @Tyrfingr good answer! hahahhaha xD

  • Music of the gods played by an angel!

  • Love her interpretation by changing the tempo :) She plays the melody like no one else -3

  • Doesn't get any better. Just show up at my local concert hall and i'll be there.

  • It sounds very similar too Joseph Hayden sonata 59

  • I've tried recording my interpretation of this song, it's on my channel, thumbs up so people can see it!

  • I cry when listen this

  • Perfect!

  • I love Valentina ! Maybe the new Martha Argerich ! Even if Martha is inimitable !

  • I used to like dubstep, then I took a Beethoven to the knee

  • @Madeinchinaagain You mean, you evolved

  • @Madeinchinaagain you have good intensions, but i come here to get away from that word...

  • @ClassicRockMan95 what is this referring to?

  • born musical

  • That's playing with passion. Just love the way she plays. Sehr gut!

  • just perfect, no fucking mistake. I love it

  • This is for those who says that there is no perfection!

    They'll change their minds after watching this brilliant pianist playing!

    You're the best Valentina. :)

  • Smooth as silk...

    Beautiful playing, as usual.

  • I learned to play this song (of course, only the first movement), and it's the only one I can play so far. It's my top favorite and I can play it or listen to it (Valentina's interpretation) so many times... I don't seem to ever get enough of it. Valentina, you're a star and I wish you all the best. Thank you for this wonderful piece of music. I'm only upset a little by the Google Ad showing up after a few secs, which hides your hands. Would be great if you could have it removed.

  • @Mast3rP3t3r click the small X on the top right side of the ad, it will close

  • Awesome !!!.....I really like it the way that she play this song !

  • too fast

  • @TheShota99

    It is not too fast, actually is exactly the tempo=55, as Beethoven wrote on this sheet... The tempo is perfect... You can paly it slower, but it is not the way Beet wanted it to be played. Grab the score and read it by yourself, put a metronome to count and hear :) Valentina plays it flawlesly! Perfect Valentina!

  • I am very curious to whether you are using the pedal in this piece?

  • @pbryld she is using the pedal - this song consists largely of chord triads in triplets, accompanied by bass (left hand), which makes it easier to use the pedal without mushing notes together

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  • I personally think the bass notes should be heavier (not louder) in the beginning, as it realy gives the piece a strong backbone, without lessening its fragility.

  • "Ninguna tontería he oído repetir con tanta frecuencia como esa que afirma que son delicadas las manos del pianista.Incluso cuando el resto de su cuerpo parece relajado, sus manos están duras y en alerta, como esos perros en apariencia dormidos que atrapan con un brusco movimiento la mosca que vuela ante sus fauces"

    Las manos del pianista

  • buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

  • ça c'est de la musique. On sent la passion, le désespoir. Tout quoi.

  • Valentina plays the Moonlight Sonata the best way possible, as regards the characteristics of the Romantic period. This masterwork appears to be an easy-piano piece, but it is extremely difficult to interpret it, since you must put feeling in it. That is why you will not hear to pianists playing it the same. Valentina proves her high class, playing the perfect modulations; starting 2:20 you feel the steep, while the maximum point is touched at 2:35; briliant!

  • This chick is amazing....I look up to her and I put this song on and play along with her!

  • soothing, and beautiful

  • Exellent :D !!

  • Goosebumps ALL OVER my body... superb!

  • Her hands glide thru the piano so perfectly and smoothly. That's when you can tell when someone isn't just playing a song , but living it breathing it feeling it she was so intouch with this song. Great pianist

  • Same here maggot. There is something about it that sets the mood. It may seem dark but it's beautiful.

  • I'm a metal guy, but this is so amazing, almost made me cry.

  • @themaggot8 That`s the magic of music :)

  • @themaggot8 Metalhead here too..there's a lot of metal that borrows from classical. Modes and things like that. People think metal is brainless..classic metal was NOT an easy style to play...it was very technically demanding

  • genius

  • This young woman is SO good, her fingers look (to me) like taranchula spiders moving across the keyboard. I LOVE her interp, mood and passion for this piece. She is outstanding!

  • AWESOME!

  • Love this song XD <3

  • She has fat hands and long fingers. Just the way I like em. Perfect for playing piano songs like this one.

  • I hit the 'like' button before even listening, I just knew I would love it :) She is an incredible pianist

  • Вы всегда играли большую !

  • long ago I found a video of this piece but only with pictures of the moon and such and i was in love with that version and grew used to it but i never could find the one who actually played that because the other versions sound totally different to me and now I think i found that person :) the same speed, the same strength, the same feelings

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  • Your recording of the moonlight sonata has given me strength in times of struggle. I honestly think this is such a beautiful piece, but the way you play it gives me strength, faith, and hope. I want to thank you for this. We may never meet, but you have touched me in an incredible ways. When I listen to any other person's moonlight sonata it just isn't the same.. I find myself always back to your recordings.

  • She is so into the music. It seems at times like she was water flowing like a river and other times carried along on the notes.

  • Valentina understood what Beethoven meant to express with these notes so well that she is probably able to compose something as beatiful as this piece

  • There is still hope for the human race,

  • Haters gonna hate poor bastards.... no matter how many times i hear this its still incredibly beautiful.

  • excellent .....LOOKing how does she play I want to learn piano-playing too...

  • ohhh mhan what a soft n delicate hands she's using ..superbly awesome

  • She made it look fuckin easy ==

  • @Koojra Not sure if troll or just stupid...

  • How does she make it sound so eerie :(? Why can't I play anything right >:|?

  • Tus manos no tocan las teclas, levitan haciendo surgir la música y yo floto también así.

  • I love her passion for the music. She just get lost in the piece. Beautiful playing!

  • beautiful...

    

  • this is so easy for you Val isnt it? so smooth, so beautiful...

  • I`m 15 and i started playing the piano when i was 14.

    and i am going to play this song at my next concert kinda thing:)

    hope i can play it like Valentina Lisitsa.

    wish me luck!!!

  • @tvxqshokora0611 good luck!!! you will love it! dont forget, its always about the feeling you will have doing it..

  • @pirolitosdewhisky Thanks:) I`ll keep that in mind!

  • the chalk will forgive you

  • I love this song!

  • piano guitarra y violín... los mejores instrumentos del mundo!! lol

  • Thank you...

  • This is why I like Lisitsa's interpretations: always faster than other pianists, yet never non-musical.

  • Fantasie Impromptu>Moonlight Sonata!!!

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  • @Personaforever Why compare Chopins Impromptu with Beethovens Moonlight sonata?

  • There will be no one like beethoven, chopin or mozart in our life times. sigh...

  • @kavoos1375 I disagree, just because new music today isn't the same style as romantic pieces like beethoven or chopin made doesn't mean that there aren't great musicians today. I love listening/playing liszt and chopin and beethoven, but I listen to a lot of heavy rock as well. There are a lot of skilled musicians out there.

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 It's not that I don't think there are skilled musicians in contemporary society, but you totally just put heavy rock on the same level as Chopin and Beethoven. I am appalled. Shocked, scandalized, dismayed; a plethora of synonyms for fear do bestir my soul to quake against the judgement which doth gather darkly above thy unworthy head which houseth a mind so eeevil.

    ... =|

    Just kidding, but seriously.

  • @isleschild I see Liszt's Mazeppa and his Chasse-Neige and Chopin's Ocean Etude in the exact same way that I see Blinded By Fear (by At The Gates) or Indestructible (by Disturbed). They are all relentless, powerful songs and they all have a kind of fire behind them that I love hearing (incidentally, Berezovsky's performance of Mazeppa is my favorite).

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 Not that i don't appreciate softer pieces like Moonlight Sonata 1st Mvt.

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 In fact, i want to learn the first and third movements of this Sonata after learning a few of Liszt's Transcendental Etudes :)

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 Blinded by Fear is bad philosophy...

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 Skilled musicians is everywhere. Geniouses isn't.

  • @megadodd That's a very pessimistic and good-old-days-syndrome way of looking at the world. There was plenty of shit music in Mozart's time, too. It's just that all the bad stuff got filtered out and forgotten after hundreds of years. In fact, for a lot of history (especially recent history, which we have better records of), "popular" music for the time was rarely the music that got remembered and passed down.

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  • @MrHeyheyhey27 ya in metal and rock. not in pop and rap and country. Most metal is todays classical music.

  • @MrHeyheyhey27

    You make a confusion: Beethoven belongs to the Clasical period, while Chopin belongs to the Romantic period; these two periods are significantly different, in terms of interpretation, modulation, tempo, etc...

    But you are right: today are also great musicians, this depending on the listeners' preferences

  • @popapopas Really? I thought a lot of beethoven's music had romantic qualities...wasn't he right on the border between the two?

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 You are correct, there is a lot of debate about Beethoven's placement. He is traditionally considered a classical composer but introduced and played with many of the qualities that would become Romantic. As such, a number of modern scholars would consider him to be the very first Romantic composer.

    Regardless of how you classify him, he occupies a unique niche as either an early, trailblazing Romantic or an innovative and emotional composer who made the classical style his own.

  • @MrHeyheyhey27 Mozart is Classical, not romantic. Get your facts right.

  • @mathsprofessional ??????? I never mentioned mozart....

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  • @kavoos1375 i think were pretty close here mate

  • Takes my breath away every time I hear it <3...musicians from today wish they can come up with such mesmerizing music such as "Moonlight Sonata

  • beethoven was a real genius wish composers like him existed in our century

  • @Gossip007Bondgirl beethoven, chopin & the rest certainly belongs among the greatest of all times, but i believe there is one better than them today. go search "Derek Paravicini on 60 MINUTES - Autistic Savant " on youtube.. and be prepared to be amazed. derek, imo, is probably the best gifted pianist on the planet we have today and possibly of all time. there's also a 6 part documentary on him as well on youtube.

  • great song for music theory... this was a true brain buster for me. 5 to 5 to 5 to 5 to 5 to 5 to 5 to 5 to.... 1 ahhhhhh resolution sounds so beautiful...

  • 54 people wish they'd play like her but can't manage to even pull Fur Elise decently! :)

  • 54 people wish they'd play like her but can't manage to even pull Fur Elise decently! :)

  • I love this video. I favourited it and watch every day, however I do have one little complaint to make, the sound is way too low. I almost can't hear it. I must up the volume so much everytime I listen to this, then all other sounds my computer makes are soo very loud... I wish someone would edit the audio levels of this clip.

  • @Mast3rP3t3r

    there's something wrong with the computer...

    the sound is perfectly fine o.o

  • @BreakingFeathers no mate, the sound is very low in this video. My computer is all right. I've got the volume set to a pleasant level, and watch any other videos on YouTube, or listen to my mp3s or whatever, then when I visit this clip, I hear nothing. I always have to up the volume so very much just to be able to listen to this. The sound needs to be normalised so it comes out at the same level as other clips on the same volume setting.

  • @Mast3rP3t3r I would not presume to tell you about your own computer, but I must say that the volume of this video is just grand on the three computers that I use most.

  • Thank you.

  • c c una to cardedoes so da fernado continuea contiua

  • Sublime ! Insuperable.

  • The first time I ever heared this piece was on a game called Resident Evil.

    The first one brought for the Playatation 1.

    Love it

  • @minislayer2010 That just happens to be my favourite video game franchise, friend. In the mini-game 'Lost in Nightmares', in Resident Evil 5, it plays a part, and in the main hall, the second movement is the background music. As a fan of both Beethoven and Resident Evil, that little reference is truly fulfilling.

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  • OMG AMAZZZZINNNNGGG!!! DANG!! SO DANG INCREDIBLE!! Bravo, Bravo!

  • bela musica

  • God in the Heaven, Lisitsa in the Earth!

  • wonderful interpretation; Unsurpassable Valentina.

  • Beautifully played, wow

  • I must say, I have been re-learning the piano for about 2 and 1/2 years now ( I took lessons long long ago.) Ive commented to you befor on fur elise. You inspire me and I honestly believe you are the best piano Player I have ever and will ever hear. when I want to find a new song to learn I see If youve played it and listen to you to see how its supposed to sound. Thanks your awesome!

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