Beethoven Sonata Op 106 "Hammerklavier" Part5

[ralfjacobs]

what only a broken string usually my piano catches on fire when i play this :P

[chrisVes1]

C'est magnifique

[lalahohoable]

for a pianist at this level,she deserved a much better piano, and tuned ...anyway a video worse  to be seen and admired...

[MegaTomco]

In this song I feel Bach, Chopin, a little bit rachmaninoff...simply everything and it's really awesome :) now it is my masterpiece and just because of valnetina and her magneficient and "dazzling" playing :) thank you!

[soulechene]

Magistral! Pourtant écouté après l'interprétation de Frédérich Gulda. Mais, Valentina Lisitsa est décidément incomparable. Quel bonheur d'écouter tout la subtilité de son interprétation. Cette sonate est une des plus difficiles à jouer. Magnifique...

[davveist]

Insanely stiff and free from any hierarchy; far from any genuine romantic perfoming practice and a bit sad to hear in 2011..

[Twjdfa]

Cuando las cosas llegan al limite el vaso rebosa de agua e esta secuencia de la sonata los conflictos son evidentes y hacen incapie en las notas reseguidas con un auge extremecimiento ,,,,la expresion,el enfasis en la prisa de llegar al infinito de todo lo vivido para acabar en un final melancolico y sufrido ,aunque tan completa es esta como todo el genero entero de la obra señalamdo una locura del tiempo del reloj que suena constantemente Beethoven increible!!!!!!!!!

[Wolfgang262]

You string popper you. Ha ! Would you by any chance be distantly related to Anton Rubinstine he liked to snap strings too. Mozart was right , Beethoven did give us something to listen to and might I add, you bring that out with the highest level of inspiration .

[platero55]

You know, when I was growing up, "Hammerklavier" was thought of as a bit of extravagant eccentricity, with moments of poetry. Thank you, Maestra Lisitsa, for taking Beethoven at his word and presenting an interpretation that is coherent, respectful of the composer's sound concept, and expressive to the nth degree.

[garfreed]

Absolutely thrilling!

[heroineworshipper]

Don't miss the broken strings & loss of tuning of real pianos.

[hanniswurst]

listen to maria mazo and you will understand.

[hanniswurst]

technically brilliant, but in my opinion she plays very rapidly - at the expense of the importance of every single note. beethoven certainly wanted to express human freedom in the fugue. lisitsa performs it with much control but she does not come up to beethovens intention thoroughly because its played so fast that we cannot enjoy the beautiful sounds, wonderful passages or interesting details of that piece. what freedom is it, not to take the time to express all this?

[bsdml]

@hanniswurst It seems to me from my recent memory (which is admittedly hit-and-miss) that Beethoven's own metronome markings (which Schnabel tried bravely to follow, and that are pretty darn close to this) that this is, in fact, the tempo Beethoven prescribed for the final movement to the "Hammerklavier". If I am wrong, please feel free to correct me. Granted, a slower tempo will bring out things a faster tempo doesn't.

[SIiv3r]

@hanniswurst In a letter, Beethoven himself wrote the tempo marking half = 144, this is actually very, very fast. Most pianists play it slower, apart from Schnabel I only know Arrau and Lisitsa playing it nearly in that tempo. 144 would be slightly faster than this performance.

[matsuokashiro]

Beethoven's late piano sonatas opened new eyes to the world just as his late string quartets have. I really enjoye the opus 106 Hammer Klavier by Valentina. I wonder what her opus 110 and opus 111 would sound. Probably just as staggeringly beautiful as op 106. If Beethoven were to appear now, he would love Valentina with love and grace.

[gecmartins]

@matsuokashiro

And hopefully compose her a sonata =) I bet it would be beautiful!

[Laudan08]

wow, those beautiful fingers are so strong. epic 7:14!

[otonanoC]

Broken string at 7:15!

I've only done this once before on an old spinnet.

[MagicDolphinGO]

i find it kind of funny how after all that fugal wildness and harmonic experimentation beethoven ends it all on a perfect cadence. Shows his sense of humor i guess.

[quinto34]

I can listen to this for days

[G0NZAL0666]

ai debe un piano..je je..bueno una cuerda o_O..

[richclayderman]

poor chord!

[pingui123456789]

Que impreción,  rebetó una cuerda en el min 7:14, cuando toca el F grave. ¿como lo hizo?. Great, beautiful performance, she is wonderfulll!!!!. 8-O

[ludwig720]

A 7:13 rompe una corda........

[cammywatt95]

Beethoven was known to often break the strings on his piano because of his deafness... he played so furiously in order to even hear himself play. Maybe this is why many of his pieces are so powerful.

[thecatsman]

@iamsuperleroy and super stupid as well

[Laudan08]

@iamsuperleroy u know, that fugue can be learnt like a telephone number, the difficulty it's the only hard thing.

[iamsuperleroy]

@Laudan08 k

[robby35us]

@Laudan08 I personally think that phrasing and bringing out the character of this wonderful piece is the hard part. I could never be able to play it, but even if I learned the whole thing, it would never be as beautiful or as wonderful as what Valentina has done with it.

[wraffi]

What an inspired performance! Bravo!!

[RICPOIRIER1]

Wow! Good tempo!!! Very impressive!

Great performance! Bravo! Bravo! 5 *****

[gouloum2222]

lol at the end she is checking which chord she has broken

[eloisacascio]

il pianoforte è scordato

[FedericoLPiazza]

...ha un timbro molto brillante, ma non è scordato...

[anupaum]

She broke the string at 7:14.

I enjoy watching almost as much as I enjoy listening! There's a lot of work that goes into playing at this level. I'm honored just to be able to hear her play.

[codonauta]

@anupaum Beethoven used to broke piano strings when he played, a lot, so it makes sense.

[robertoladisa]

Eccellente esecuzione ^_^

[madstepwolf]

perfect

[zurzica51]

darn piano... untuned and she brake a string.. clap clap for this pianist

[nicoejz]

Omg, could you tell me at what time did she break a string?

[12rosebud12]

clap,clap, and NOW how about the "Bumble Boogie" for encores, followed by "Shout for Joy" and "Kitten on the Keys". Cheers.

[12rosebud12]

And NOW the "Bumble Boogie" for encores, followed by "A Handful of Keys" and "Kitten on the Keys".

[MilesOfMusic92]

Beethoven was a piano destroyer - she must be doing someting right if she broke a string. Amazing performance.

[zurzica51]

7:13 great string that one..lool

[zurzica51]

sure it is!! :D

[feanando]

Valentina, good job!

You surely rehearsed very very hard to achieve such a beautiful interpretation.

God bless you, and I thank Him for givin´ you so much talent!

I hope to see you in Brazil some day!

[gunz300]

There is no Him, her amazing skill comes from an affinity to music along with immense dedication.

[metstudioversions]

@gunz300 so happy to FINALLY see a comment of this kind here on youtube! =D

[bucciflash]

Many people say this sonata is difficult to listen to. I believe It is because of its enormous emotional and poetical content. It is like reading Tolstoy´s War and Peace, in just some 40 minutes. I think the wonders of the world should have a musical equivalent. Hammerklavier should be one of them.

[worf1400]

Most wonderful performance!

Can't wait for the cycle on cds.

Will you be following most of Beethoven's (Czerny's) tempos?

[FFnopal]

No me sorprendería oir que Valentina es actualmente la mejor pianista del mundo

[shubus]

Ah! What a high art form the fugue can be. Beethoven's greatest keyboard fugue. I've never seen a live performance of this, so seeing Valentina perform this so well is an additional visual treat. Broken string! It's not named the Hammerklavier for nothing!

[ACE29q]

This is totally amazing!

Look at 7:13 she playes so hard and she broke a string

she is amazing

Oh!! She is funny at the end, hehehe Valentina pull the broke string

[ElPilli95]

only 2 words: per-fect!!!

[sll10]

JESUS! ASTONISHING PERFORMANCE!!

I LISTENED TO THE WHOLE THING!! ONE OF THE BEST HAMMERKLAVIERS EVER!! YOU TORE UP THE PIANO VALENTINA!! (Even broke a string!).

FANTASTIC!!! BRAVO!!!

[somedudeplayingpiano]

steinway was use to be a german company. but one of the brothers went to england :P in germany steinway used to be called steinweg :P

[leszange]

Magnifique...!

Ordinairement, trop peu joué...! et trop peu bien joué...

[antoinezygfryd]

Ce mouvement est tellement terrifiant....Je ne connais aucune musique qui suscite autant d'effroi,et bien entendu,le jeu de Lisitsa est sublime.

[rarescores]

Is that a Steinway and Sons Hamburg she is playing on!???? :-)

[1fattyfatman]

When I studied this in college I always had the feeling this was a musical depiction of white water rafting where one rides whitewater and smacks into rocks here and there before ultimately going over a waterfall.

[sorobji]

Not when she plays it!

[carrietide]

THAT FUGUE!!!!!!Truly amazing

[MusicMan20061210]

I think one of the tuning pegs let go. But hey...things like that are supposed to happen while playing Beethoven's dynamics...

As long as it wasn't the g-string that broke...haha

[Schamschi]

Actually, the sforzato is on the the a in the bass on the second beat, and not on the g flat in the soprano on the second eighth of the first beat, so one could argue that Valentina didn't follow Beethoven's directions carefully... But, as Alfred Brendel put it, "you need a piano you can rely on, otherwise the piano plays you". Clearly, at 7:14 the latter was the case...

[Kalen1457]

A bit rushed for my taste but nevertheless passionate as always!

[pffffffff454]

part4

[EBarros2006]

Valentina, I've watched all your Youtube videos and you're amazing-!! Beautiful playing! great technique, and what really surprised me the most is that you're doing it all from memory, I don't see any music books on the piano, how can you memorize so much music!?? your brain must have so much "ram" lol

It's really amazing!!

Hope to see you live soon..

[stagesix6]

practice

[RevoMusic]

A tribute to Bach from beethoven ! This is pure genius! He should have written more counterpoint...

And Valentina you are amazing!

[esmine86]

When the string breaks, she looks up, then shakes her head and just keeps playing! :)

Thank you for uploading the Hammerklavier sonata. I hope to hear the Waldstein sonate also :)

I had actually no idea there was an audience until the end of this video O_O Perhaps I'm deaf, or they were just very quiet ;)

[pianofforte]

This "fuga" is the number 25 of Well Tempered Hammerfluger.

[MikeyAC86]

This piece is so damn hard. Ms. Lisitsa is incredible.

[pookiehohn]

Is it me or do the upper keys sound funny? They sound kind of twangy or something.

[iLoveChopin]

no i think the upper keys sound funny too

[IExposeMormonism]

pookie, I think it is tuned to sound a little like a Clavichord.

[FedericoLPiazza]

and maybe 'cause of this a string brokes at 7.14...

[shubus]

Nice call. But that's what supposed to happen when you play the Hammerklavier Sonata properly. Too bad she doesn't have Franz Mohr sanding by, but he doesn't work for Bosendorfer.

[pookiehohn]

7:14=Badass

[jacoman1234567]

I just listened to all the parts and I have to say that I'm very impressed as ussual. The great souplesse with which you play all these pieces is superb!

Thanks for letting us enjoy this wonderfull music!

[robby35us]

@jacoman1234567 I wondering what you could have possibly meant when you typed "souplesse," haha, cause I really have no idea. This made me laugh, but yes, she is wonderful.

[matsta2k]

Excellent as ever.

lol and at 7:14 you broke a string!

[supermanifold]

and she acknowledges this explicitly at the end;

isn't she just fantastic?

[angloman1]

doesnt sound like an old Hammerklavier to me though

[Mezzidriel]

Beautiful as always!