Valentina Lisitsa plays Schubert-Liszt Abschied

[Arellaism]

I own an Bösendorfer 290 Imperial and i was able to count 97 keys.

[Oliy92466]

AWESOME!*****

BRAVO!

Olga/

[smellmyfingure]

you guys should listen to classical music on a Bose system OMG its a 1000 times better

[vivaldi835]

you're great !! i love all your videos

[DrxLuis]

2:43 God mode "on"

[amorediahmad]

Proprio talentuosa

[CanadaPisces]

Beautifully played! Valentina you make my heart sing with the joy of your playing! Bravo!

[38renanrospo29]

2 mains extraordinaires en action sur le clavier ! Hallucinant !

[nihilus0]

You are playing this with such confidence and feeling for al the soft and all the dynamic parts.... Amazing!

[MrRosfordKjaerulff]

2:43 Holy mother of God...

[Perelea]

This is amazing !

I just recklessly fell in love with this piece. Already learning it, but heck, it's hard xD

[cavergarab]

Fantástica, saludos desde CHile...

[Sonorite]

that's my little chelan one day, my student looks like her tall , lean , blond and so beautifully talented. Makes me cry when I hear her play at such a young age.

[ramiraramira]

it looks like the sheet is about the light any minute...hard to concentrate about the music.

[crogersrx]

Val, I adore this piece... I've probably listed to this track on your DVD about a zillion times. It's so happy. I can't believe how you make every piece look so easy... your hands just dance over the keys!

[wjf1950]

Val....you are so talented......maybe 30 years old ....to play like that....bf

[19bud59]

Valentina plays like an Angel. Fantastic to watch and listen to. Brilliant play. Such smooth play and she makes it look easy

Watching her play surely improved my own pianoplay.

Thank you Valentina.

[ibook4113]

floating hands. The most incredible thing is she just makes everything look easy -- like her hands are just loose, blowing in the wind.

[lbm5444]

Lisitsa's performance is great for a number of reasons, but what I am probably most impressed by is how the Abschied theme always stands out and is very clear throughout the piece, and how Lisitsa can make some of the most difficult sections (i.e., 1:43- 1:50) seem like the easiest. This can be a very tricky, thorny, uncomfortable and downright nasty piece to play (at least for an amateur like myself), but she pulls it off very gracefully.

[HarveyTruffaut]

Very beautiful

[BBaudelaire]

In the dark environment with candles and candelabrums, Valentina, seems like you are playing in Liszt's time :) what a great performance!

by the way, we are waiting for you here in Brazil with open arms for a solo recital :D

[dung4me]

so beautiful ....

[stlivermore]

Music to love and enjoy. Thanx for making a Schubert song sing so eloquently and impressively. I would buy any recording you ever released by any composer you ever played. You make beautiful music, it makes my heart sing. Cheers!

[Hybridstigmatist]

Check her profile, you can buy her work there.

[markswansoncmt]

Ace performance by Valentina, as always. Does anyone know if she (or another artist) have a recording of the Hexameron, compiled by Lizst? I can only find a recording of Horowitz, but nothing in video performance.

[colorfulssmile]

You are the best of the best! I can't stop listening to your pieces!

[phzzanin]

We are waiting u here in Brazil! your interpretation its a fusion of talent and art!!

[HarveyTruffaut]

Very beautiful. Thank you for your dedication, talent and your openness to sharing such beauty with us. may you be happy, and may you receive as much as you give.

[OverFjell]

@HarveyTruffaut I believe she does :) She gives us beautiful music, and in return, she gets thousands of admirers, :P 

[4W4NDR3S]

the precision and strengh are amazing!!

i'm your BIG BIG BIG BIG fan since now!!!!!!

love your touch.

[Sashomei]

10 extra keys? WOW! 6th octave? Or the last octave is full?

[Sashomei]

Valentina I'm sure that your favourite piano is Bosendorfer! But would you like to tell me is this piano (on the video) made to order? The last octave is too long I think?! Very interesting! Did somebody notice the long keyboard?

[ValentinaLisitsa]

All Bosys have extra keys (except the small grands and recent 280). 275 which I am playing here has 4 extra notes in the base, Imperial 290 (my other piano) has 10 extra keys, 98 in total.

[mksolidus]

ohhh Miss Lisitsa

I am 24 and

iam wanna start playing Piano and I love Beethoven and Franz Litz Totentanz so much ,anyway is that too late for me to learn Piano???

PS: You are Beatiful and playing like Beethoven himself , wonderful.If you give a Konzert in Germany i will comming to see you how you play a Flügel (Big piano) sorry for may bad english = ) Iam a Fan of you

[Jensbolte]

No, but you have to pratice a lot to play those songs.

At least two years.

Probably three or four.

You can't start with such complicated songs.

[Surkoplit]

24 is quite young (well i am only 19 what do i know ) i started piano when i was 16 and i am not the greatest but i play pretty well now, it doesnt take that long to get good enough to enjoy playing, as you get better its less about being good and more about enjoying a hobby

[princenosiatajansen]

it is never to late idiot...

Reden ohne zu handeln hat noch nie einen weitergebracht. habe auch erst vor einem jahr angefangen und kann nicht mehr aufhören ;)

man muss nur anfangen

[NordicHealer]

@ValentinaLisitsa Hello Val, I thought that the Bosy 290 went down to a low C below the usual A1 which is 9 extra notes not 10, for a total of 97 keys. Have they added another note I am not aware of? lol.

[divyx]

@ValentinaLisitsa do you know if there are there pieces that require bosendorfer meaning they are composed to use the extra keys?

[Laudan08]

@ValentinaLisitsa Dear Val, thanks on the knowledge, but i just found:

Imperial 290 has 9 extra keys (down to C0, totalling 97 keys).

:)

[lsbrother]

@ValentinaLisitsa

are there any known pieces written for these extra keys?

[tpiskor]

@ValentinaLisitsa Love your playing Valentina.Please keep posting.

[RikaxSeto]

Valentina, you're awesome! Wow!

And that woman comment was just sexist, ignore that person. They know nothing.

:)

[KriLae]

Well, I did make a quite robust translation of this Estonian Abchied there.

Hope you enjoy!

[KriLae]

I would like to make some comparison with almost incomparable, but it still is this.

Please make a search for

Sõpruse Puiestee - Hüvasti Tallinn

This is a rock band performing the same idea in their means.

I cant post a link here, but you will certainly find.

And also I would like to join semiramide1945

"Fight destructive composers! Ignore them for the Good of True Manhood!" I think they are intentionally payed for constructing on and on the concentration camps, and for damaging souls.

[semiramide1945]

LOL,Thank you dear lady. I will watch and listen to the wonderful things you upload and dream of the day I'll hear YOU in recital, but not too long I hope as I'm getting old, so I may be listening from a cloud. You know the saying regarding Beethoven? His music ascends to Heaven? Well Valentina, Mozart's and your music making descends from Heaven.. Ciao, and keep the music coming!

[semiramide1945]

Valentina, it was nice to hear you with hilary Hahn at Spivey Hall today 2/15, but I'd much rather have heard you in a solo recital. After that Ives and Bartok I was about out of my mind. I kept thinking Mozart, Lizst, Schubert, The Rach #2. I know the selections today must be rewarding for performers, but for audiences? That's another matter- The Bramhs though was superb- Brava-

[ValentinaLisitsa]

That's why I carry about 100 pounds worth of Mozart ,Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert music in my suitcase for this tour. It helps to keep me sane . I share your feelings - 100%but the choice was not mine.I suffer from sever Ives poisoning - "Poison Ives' LOL

[ultrapc52]

@ValentinaLisitsa

Have you, or are you going to play Schuberts Wanderer Fantasy? I love that piece. It has been one of my favorites and I firmly believe that YOU are the only person gifted enough to do it total justice. Your talent staggers my imagination and every time I have a chance to listen to you, I DO NOT hesitate to do so. Unfortunately I live in a small city in the midwest (Sioux City, IA) that most likely will never see your talent. But I can always hope.

[SealedSage]

@ValentinaLisitsa I completely agree with everything ultrapc52 says. Your Wanderer Fantasy would be absolutely sublime!!! And I hail from Memphis, TN. I would count myself a blessed creature to have the chance to behold your talent and music and, well, beauty! :)

Best wishes! :)

[pianistaclasico]

¡Tocas como los ángeles!

[HarveyTruffaut]

How nice

[fredjmp]

Great!!

[konzolmester]

Her hand is big,developed nicely over her piano studies,big as rachmaninov or list hands. Too bad I started late,I will never grew my fingers,but that means nothing,no? :-)

[asmanyaspossible]

I love her. She is sooo amazing. HOW CAN SHE PLAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS? Thats awsome

[angelviolin14]

that was kinda rude about the woman thing

[farleigh17]

Peter Cook

[debussy84]

How can a WOMEN!!! be the best pianist i've ever heard???

[weslo1finalfantasy1]

It's in their genes. They are just naturally better lol

[Flartz]

damn how long did it take for you to learn that?

[BobbyDuwitz]

This is so mind blowingly amazing, but why do all classical songs end in those same 3 notes?

[pcmendes1973]

Do they?!

[konzolmester]

My god,people like that give comments under videos like this. XD Youtube needs a comment filter,or something like that.:-D

[Persuasion86]

That was really well played, I think my next DVD will be your Schwanengesang! I heard you have 8 DVDs, but there are only 3 available in North America?

[mikosaaol]

valentina, do you play hands united etude by alkan?

your great!!

i have 3 of your dvds best don juan ever!!

[callenishss]

alkan is so rare why ask

on youtube only hamelin, gibbons, renaldo reyes and some amateurs have alkan

[DualThunder]

alkan is one of those composers that has just been forgotten, undeservedly. I think his music is not widely known enough. But i love alkan. I think more people should listen to his music.

[sdorr]

Best rendition on the keyboard I've heard, since Gerald Moore....lovely, just lovely, but the piece...a rich lyric line, demands the voice, preferably Dietrich Fischer-D