Chopin Etude Op 10 No.2 HQ

[G0rd0nHealth]

It's funny to hear people describe this woman as a "national treasure" or object of immense value. She is a human too!

[dlgrim0621]

Hi! I just wanted to say this is great as usual. I was just wondering how You&Hubby&son liked the groovie goolies. This seems really funny, giving this to the best Pianist ever,but I still hope Ypu Liked some of that stuff just for fun. If You like to getup& go Gloria Estefan's WEPA is fun&Hotel Nacional is fun&funny.If You don't know how to getup&shake it,try Sade-Bellydancer. Just for fun.It would be nifty to hear from You sometime,like- of course I know who Tigger is You dodo.Prayers&Love Dan

[bontempo01]

(ctd. from below). Add to that the lyrical challenge of the very delicate melodic and harmonic colours that such Etudes have and you got yourself a particularly hard nut to crack. Wasn't there a saying along the lines of "Chopin Etudes: a player with crooked fingers will straighten them by practicing these pieces, but some other players are best kept on their guard against them"?

[bontempo01]

I would argue that this is a defining Etude in marking the difference between Chopin and Liszt. When you play a "tough" Liszt piece, many times it just "feels" right, things fall naturally in your fingers and hand. This is not at all what I personally experience whenever I start studying a new Chopin Etude: it feels quite awkward in the beginning (and sometimes down to the very end, after months and months of practice!) because it just challenges your hands to adopt weird positions. Like here.

[MIKE1238673]

@bontempo01 oddly I feel the opposite! I found the op.25/11 initially challenging but now it feels completely natural under my hands - I found the same with many of his waltzes too, oh well - each their own!

[invincible739]

hmm

[Musicownz1997]

@eazygoingbloke I agree with you, however a lot of the time there is simply no fingering that you can use, like for some of Franz Liszt's pieces. You just gotta make up something that works for you and doesn't mess up the rhythm.

[YouSeems]

my 4th and 5th fingers are breaking down when practice this piece

[kingjd182]

WHAM! BAM! ... what the fuck just happened?

[paton1993]

Hey valentina! I Love You!! *-*

[pianogirl98]

Simply beautiful!

[rtmbtn]

john petrucci got me here :)

[Kinjutsuu]

@rtmbtn

Sweet, where did he link this??

[YouSeems]

How can you play it :D ACTUALLY AWESOME Valentina

I think ur 4th, 5th fingers are definitely strong! xD

[llSurf]

Love her

[frostnet]

nice bosendorfer!, 

[Matheus031224]

No creo que la haga oe, deseenme suerte

[Matheus031224]

@Matheus031224 

[TheMusRattus]

I saw some sheet music of this at my aunt's house (she's a professional pianist, and my teacher). I looked at it and decided to hear it, mainly because of the tempo written on it...

144 quarter notes a minute.

And every note is a SIXTEENTH note, meaning there's 1 quarter note per 4 notes played... meaning you have to play faster than 8 notes a second.

That... is very fast. And it was WRITTEN fast.

[Kinjutsuu]

@TheMusRattus

What are you talking about? That is just medium... Anything above 11-12 notes per second is fast, and can be really difficult depending on the fingering.

For example, the 4th etude, Op. 10 No. 4, really difficult fingerings PLUS high speed. I once calculated Ricther to play about 14,7 notes per second, that is insane!!! For piano at least, I play electric guitar and did about 19 NPS in a tune, but of course not for one and a half minute xD

Ricther is a god

[TheMusRattus]

@Kinjutsuu

Well, it's fast for me :P

I'm just a 14 year-old who's played for about 4 years, and not too heavy. Naturally, most things are very fast to me

[RockinSim]

@TheMusRattus Valentina is amazing :D One of my favourites but if you want to see someone riddiculously fast look up "Yuja Wang plays the Flight of the Bumble-Bee (Vol du Bourdon)", she's almost unbelievable!

[tjtheplay]

I didn't think that this Chopin etude was that hard until I actually saw someone play it.

It fucking sucks to trill let alone play chromatic with your fourth and fifth finger.

I think it could possibly be easier to play it cross handed lol

[Phil1313131]

@tjtheplay You play it with your thrid fourth and fifth finger...And it just takes some time to get used to. What the real difficulty is, is the constant legato in three fingers of your hand and the staccato in the other two...

[pexeboi]

Idk why tehre are soo much haters about pianists the like to play fast... If chopin made a video on youtube with him playing the music, someone would say ``its too fast, you ware listening with your eyes``

[belegSJ]

@Interessant11 Yes, Valentina has a great affinity for Bösendorfer pianos. :)

[yokochaso]

I do not understand why you chose Bösendorfer

[eu08071996]

uh... is written in the score "piano"... I can´t ear it. The tecnic is perfect but is mezzoforte.

[Peetonium]

@eu08071996 I'd say it's just the recording. I think she is actually playing it piano.

[eu08071996]

@Peetonium I don´t know... that´s a possibility. I am just give a opinion about what i hear xD

[videofreakmanic123]

fuck...how you do that

[Choltik]

When a piece like this seems easy to the listener, that meens the piece is being played correctly! And that is exactly what happens here! This etude is one of the hardest and it seems so easy!

Amazing! Valentina Lisitsa is a really great pianist!

[csportalcomua]

huraa, im playing it in the same tempo., I thought It should be faster.

[MegaDutchTutorials]

17 thought it was DIS I LIKE

[sheeniequeenie]

@MegaDutchTutorials Another person is now a dislexic person

[tommasotemporin]

@MegaDutchTutorials 18 people dislikes this video and 18 people likes your comment.. i guess you're right!

[BansaiMont3l]

sounds so easy..

[gapoc459]

Lisitsa and Pollini are my favorite Chopin Etuders... This one is considered by some the hardest Etude; she plays it so lightly... Fantastic!!!

[noahfletcher1]

Valentina Lisitsa on a Bôsendorfer the best of both worlds !

[Cper953lhk]

you are amazing!

[hazzagawa]

FIT

[csportalcomua]

I can play as fast as she but cannt faster.

[mikedeliv]

@csportalcomua you know... we don't give a shit

[30inventionman]

Everyone is looking at her , not her playing, but her beauty.

[yangtq891204]

flawless

[CPTsymmetry]

She is the female Liszt !

[MrSchlapkohl]

technically brilliant!!!

[pianette94]

I've been playing this for months and i cant play it half as fast :(

[peaceL0Vdance]

Oh my god...

[johannesr89]

everyone ever played this piece knows how your 3,4 and 5th finger of your right hand hurt after a while... this is purely amazing :)

[schweetheartmonkee]

How did you practice this without hurting your hand?? I try not to tense but it still hurts after playing only at most two pages of this music. . .Chopin is trying to kill me!

[jiririji]

@schweetheartmonkee Do it slow first. but very clear and without pedal, when you increase the speed to be perfect ..

[ATNickMellor]

Beautiful technique, but why does she use the sustaining pedal so much? To me it detracts from her performance.

[robertslistening]

It's pretty, but it's nowhere near Vadim Rudenko. Of course no one I've heard plays this piece as fast and accurately as him, including Richter, Cziffra, Gavrilov, Ohllson, etc. This is probably the hardest etude. If a pianist can become proficient at it. All the others are probably quite a bit easier. It works the 3, 4 and 5 fingers of the right hand, without giving them help from the thumb and index finger. I like Lisitsa's playing, but for virtuoso ability Rudenko is absolutely awesome.

[candlewick163]

@robertslistening there's a certain point where I don't like to listen to pieces at such fast speeds. I like the speed this woman played it at. It was very enjoyable to listen to. It was like an urgent andante feel to it.

[InflatiblePalmTree]

15 people need to be locked in a ghetto music store with only really crappy out-of-tune pianos and little untrained 5-year-olds.

[keyboardathlete]

this is one of the most difficult etudes !if you aim to play it in the suggested tempo!



[TheCriticPiano]

Great interpretation....however. Work on that left hand, sometimes it dies out. AND little kids about to criticize me save you're breath. As I say, the art of piano never has limitations.

[InflatiblePalmTree]

@TheCriticPiano You spelt "your" wrong.

[spyler7]

@InflatiblePalmTree , this isn't english class, I don't think anyone cares how to spell your right now

[deniz8000]

I Love you. girl!!!!!!!!!!

[ThePinkFloydPig]

Sounds easier than it is.

[jdkrensel]

lol. if anyone knew how strong the 3rd, 4th, and 5th fingers need to be to play this piece...

[xKurogashi]

incredible; one of the harder etudes and played very well.

[carlhopkinson]

great but tempo is variable

[jimmyjxia]

@carlhopkinson "rubato" is very important in romantic music.

[albertbrond]

either the piano is high sensitive or she's a faker.

[Zuukarimoto]

@albertbrond or she's just really good

[tombennettpiano]

@Zuukarimoto She's REALLY good!

[intelplatoon]

@albertbrond i dont think shes faking it dude, shes playing at the symphony hall in SF pretty soon

[ZachEatonMusic]

@albertbrond

Bosendorfers are heavy-keyed pianos -- she has practiced so much that her arms and hands are strong enough to touch them very lightly to make this very "smooth" sound. She's not a faker, silly =)

[ThePianoLad]

this pieces sounds like a wailing banshee. LOL she played it oh so well.

[jonnyenglishlim]

This is suppose to be an easy piece... until chopin decided to make things more 'interesting' by adding two extra notes for the start of every four semiquavers

[bobomber]

@jonnyenglishlim oh.that means sixteenth note... I had no idea :O

[pukio8800]

Her fingers are not playing..... they are dancing on the piano!!!

[SILOETTE100page]

@pukio8800

funny cause that's exactly what chopin used to tell his student, EASY EASY, move them gracefully. as if choreographed

[SharmaYelverton]

You'll never complain about the flight of the bumble bee being hard to play after trying to learn this. Fantastic rendition as well!

[Raddww]

\m/ she rocks,amazing music;amazing piano player

[BeautifulSea4]

This is amazing. I love the song, with its mischievous sound, and this is the best rendition of it that I have ever heard. You play beautifully!

[BeautifulSea4]

This is amazing. I love the song, with its mischievous sound, and this is the best rendition of it that I have ever heard. You play beautifully!

[BeautifulSea4]

This is amazing. I love the song, with its mischievous sound, and this is the best rendition of it that I have ever heard. You play beautifully!

[BeautifulSea4]

This is amazing. I love this song, with its mischievous sound, and this is one of the best, if not the best, rendition of it that I have ever heard. You play beautifully!

[plish09krish]

klutzy spider anyone?

[GuaraldiGuy]

Holy cow! She's amazing! She makes it look like totally effortless. She just sort of waves her hands over the keys and beautiful music comes out.

[MyLauraIsabel]

how the... but how can she... what the...

[HerrSchmids]

@MyLauraIsabel HA LOL!

[ursin1]

Your technique is very impressing, and your expression is very good.

[binks9997]

Think i'm going to learn this one next.

[meldan100]

Does those people really look at the piano?

[AnoMundi]

Wow, great!!!

[ProkofievRules]

Ms Lisitsa's videos don't always inspire me artistically, but they always inspire me to practice. However, that being said, she has some very lovely interpretations that show that she is very good with interpretation as well. Check out her Polonaise op 26 no 1 if you doubt that she 'feels' the music. It's just wonderful.

[ullerichj]

Valentina, you are really amazing. Wow.

[ibclappin]

i wish she played it faster. i know she could

[scharlesbliss1001]

sounds a bit like flight of the bumblebee at the beginning

[Gabrielcezar94]

so beautiful!

[myoon87]

Too many people here listening with their eyes and not their ears.

[Shive1337]

@myoon87 and you must be one of them if you noticed

[kohavcheli]

@myoon87 Oui, si on regarde seulement ses mains et rien d'autre... Comme ça elle peut jouer et sans nuisette...

[kohavcheli]

@myoon87 Oui, si on regarde que ses mains et rien d'autre!

[55mayakeren55]

@myoon87 you got that right

[chubbysenator]

Have you ever played a tough piano piece? Usually you're concentrating so hard on putting emotion into the music that you don't really care about what shows on your face.

[ronmoyashi]

To me it is more difficult to play Bach invention no 1 (which is supposed to be VERY easy) well than this piece... Maybe practising L'isle Joyeuse for a year helped? I do not know.

[tombennettpiano]

@ronmoyashi please post your video of this etude!

[iPlayPiiano]

I'm so lucky I don't like this piece...

I will never be able to play it... ^_^

[TheAbsolutelyUnsure]

Mind = blown.

[KevinBeethoven]

I dont understand why this is considered a more difficult study!

[jops1234]

@KevinBeethoven melody is played only by 3rd 4th and 5th finger

[PhillyB702]

@KevinBeethoven Chromatic scales with the 3rd 4th and 5th finger of the right hand while also making a chord on each beat with the 1st and 2nd fingers.

[Achtelnote]

@KevinBeethoven look at the sheet,then you will understand.or try to hear more exactly or look what her right hand is doing.

[Achtelnote]

@KevinBeethoven try to hear more exactly or look what her right hand has to do or take a look at the sheet,then you will understand.

[slydude20]

there's something weird about this performance. 0:50- watch her left hand.

[nahedh]

@slydude20 Nope, that's just Chopin for ya. Pay close attention, her right hand in that section plays the role of two.

[tburrowes1]

@SigniorGratiano Actually, she uses her 3rd, 4th, and 5th fingers to play the sixteenth notes, her thumb and index to play the lower chords, and her 3rd, 4th, and 5th fingers, alternatively throughout the piece, to assist the thumb and index in forming the harmonic completion to the lower chords. In my opinion it ranks, along with the "Winter Wind" etude (opus 25 #11) and the chromatic-thirds etude (opus 25 #6), as the most difficult of the Chopin etudes--as curzmg so well termed it, "madness"!

[thatbigscarymonster]

just imagine if she were a zombie. oh wait...

[bummy33]

lol I don't think I could play the right hand part seperately sight reading at even like 1/5th the tempo XD, especially with bringing out that beautiful, haunting melody!

[marcWalkman]

You'd better play all the notes in the right hand. Especially the ones with the second finger. I see it hanging in the air

[marcWalkman]

You'd better play all the notes in the right hand.

[marcWalkman]

you'd better play that notes with the second finger on the second beat of the first measure. That finger is not sticking there. It's up in the air. It's creating a huge gap

[marcWalkman]

you'd better play all the notes you ugly witch. It's true some pianists are clown. You're clearly one of them bitches. (message awaiting approval) I hope you're feeling happy when they applaud you. You monkey.

[marcWalkman]

you'd better play all the notes you ugly witch. It's true some pianists are clown. You're clearer one of them bitches

[marcWalkman]

She's not playing all the notes ???

[ZombiGombaa]

Thanks. Her fingers are faster than my eyes.

Insane

[ideodian]

what the f**** at 1:10 her fingers are like ghosts !!!! that's freakin good!! =-}

[PianoOnWheels]

It sounds sorta like Flight of the Bumblebee, Chopin style. =P

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@PianoOnWheels That's more op. 25 no 2 ; )

[PPchopin]

play back in the end

[ZombiGombaa]

There is somehing i dont understand. Who plays the accords at 0:50?

[SigniorGratiano]

@ZombiGombaa She plays the sixteenth notes using the 3rd, 4th, and 5th fingers of her right hand, and uses her thumb and index finger to play the lower chords. It's insane.

[mavs972]

@ZombiGombaa The 1 and 2 fingers, her 3, 4 and 5 are doing the chromatic scales.

[LunaLupina13]

It's just crazy how her fingers just seem to dance across the keys... so beautiful~!

[ironwolg]

learning it on electric guitar. it's definitely tough

[divyx]

@ironwolg well then it's likely just chromatiq scales up and down, consider yourself lucky. :)

[Lawrencelovespiano]

@WindGrowl

Performation. Is "performation" a word? I'm pretty sure it's "performance". Lol.

[bronzeantique]

It's an amazing performance , do you have a certain way to practice this study?

[bagatellissimo]

Absolute worldclass !!! Bravo Valentino !!!!!

[xcnm95x]

this looks so much easier than it is.

[TheME274]

@xcnm95x just looked at the score, its all chromatic in the right hand, but dont give in saying its easy, its chopin remember.

[Zuukarimoto]

@TheME274 its chromatic but the chromatic scalesare played on the three finger to the right and sometimes the last two fingers

[TheME274]

@Zuukarimoto i knew there was something in it thats makes it hard. its chopin, thats how i know :)

[scout6686]

@xcnm95x I think it is that, at her skill level, it is easy so that when we watch her, it seems easy.

[Jim341046]

The fingering in the right hand looks to hard for me and I'm grade 8!

[samuelishmedia]

@Jim341046 This piece is far more difficult than grade 8, that is why :D

This piece is currently on the LRSM piano syllabus, and in my opinion, is one of the hardest Chopin etudes.

[squash012]

@samuelishmedia I'm in grade 8, and I'm going to play it at a recital in December.

[JHighland1]

She makes it look way too easy

[kawaidesuo3o]

OMG  1:12

Parecen dos manos! es solo una?!

increible º_º

[daytonmlivingston]

I love this performance, it is played with correct fingering. See how she barely uses her index finger? That's how it's "technically" supposed to be played. Other performers cheat and use their index finger alot.

[jaysongillham]

it is true she does not play all the notes

[andrewoh731]

it's weird cuz this vid is only 1:22 but the number of notes can fill a book

[DrowningIsolation]

She makes it look so easy :O

[jaycethepianist]

At first hearing this etude almost sounds easy compared to the others. But one look at the right hand bars and the cruel reality sets in. Fast cromatic passages acompanied with chords on every semiquaver. And if thats not perplexing enough a chunky left hand to go with it :) - truly a piece of art, And I think maybe the hardest etude in the entire set.

[bontempo01]

@jaycethepianist I agree. I would say that between this and the "thirds" etude of op.25 we reach a very high level of technical and artistic difficulty.

[michieldpiano]

boring

[michieldpiano]

boring...

[kalamari125]

i cant believe shes not asian -_-

[supermodelchick]

@kalamari125 She's Ukranian and can feel her music passionately. Get over it!

[jordankuprij]

@kalamari125 LOL...sorry..im not racist...but..that one cracked me up! :P

[nicbaldwin]

what is this tablature name is it chopin etude number 24 ?

id realy like to know im going to a chopin recital in not so long im so gona call that to be played !

( english grammar 0/ franco here )

[OriginalBasaliskos]

I love the left hand for this.

[hermanshermits124124]

These etudes should only be played by professionals, they can seriously ruin the average pianists life. Much better playing Mozart, Beethoven And Schubert Sonata's

[MrNikkonst]

молодец!

[skunkiee]

I dropped my piano studies because of this etude :(

[himitsunosallychan]

Thoroughly enjoyable!

I used to dislike this piece. I like it now. Thank you!

[HouziDa]

Sounds a Bit like Flight of bumble bee

[jordankuprij]

@HouziDa chromatic mate!! :D

[warpod3388]

faking in the right hand aside, not bad.