Schubert Impromptu B Flat major Op 142 #3 Bonn Beethoven-Haus Lisitsa

[shigerusk7]

Bravo, you play the way I think and hear it. Take care of yourself, you are an asset for music world....

[franknhonest]

Lovely rendition

[shigerusk7]

Very Smooth, exactly the way it has to be....

Thanks

[musicfanBRA]

I was familiar with her version recorded in a studio and am enjoying very much to listen to some subtle differences in this interpretation. Valentina, more than a pianist, an artist blessed by the divine spirit of Music!

[rafaelb1026]

It's like the keys are being wiped with an angel's wing , just very gently

[MrNinel661]

Исполнение отличается изящесвом, гибкостью фразировки, благородным  звуком,образной передачи характера каждой вариации.

[sverigeserbia]

have you ever thought of playing -Chopin- polonaise op. 44?

greetings :)

[arcturian627]

Have you heard Horowitz's interpretation? You play excellently here and I love how you bring out the melodies, but I have to say I like his rendition much more, he's a very sensitive player. :D

[apdoshi70]

Great performance! Can you please come and perform in India(Mumbai) once. Saw your performance with Hillary Hahn at Chicago Symphony Center when I was visiting the city for my holidays. It was brilliant.

[JOELPARAIBANO]

Valentina, vc é maravilhosa, sabe transmitir emoções com esses dedos magistrais, considero você a melhor pianista da atualidade. Essa é mais uma que adoro ouvir, especialmente por ser tocada por você, de quem sou fã. Felicidaes!!!

[Waldstein65]

hope to see and hear, (hear and see, sorry) Val soon...its 18.10.2011.. We will not forget you Val... Take your time. Nobody can replace you..impossible.

[NebrasAlKhani]

This piece is awesome! You play it really well, Mrs. Valentina!

[feliponbombom]

Hello @valentinalisitsa . I was just wondering if you could play the tempest sonata and upload the video please :) thank you

[musicfanBRA]

Bless you, Valentina, bless your talent, your hands, your wonderful musical soul!

[brunopiccinin]

This piece always reminds me Billy Elliot movie, that very moment Billy is amazed with London dancing academy. A great movie, BTW

[romy1942]

do not worry, your hair 's gold are always wonderful, even after so much toil and sweat .. Yours sincerely

[belmontbug]

Valentina, you are amazing. I have listened to classical piano for 60 years but never have I heard this depth of feeling and tone. Bosendorfers and Valentina, strawberries and cream. Has your Rachmaninov project with the LSO been released yet? If so, where. Thanks.

[MarkHeller13]

Wonderful playing Valentina - so beautiful and refined.

I'm currently working on this piece - seems like the more I work on it, the more difficulties I uncover! I just wondered about the use of pedal - presumably it needs some, but not too much? I find it a little easy to blur some of the passages - e.g. 2nd half of bar 4...

Mark

[lyuba90]

Valentina you are amazing! you should play with my olso amazing friend Lang Lang! best male and female pianist together ;)

[AlanHemenway]

@lyuba90 I've compared their interpretations. She's musical; he's Bang Bang.

[lyuba90]

@AlanHemenway lang lang is not always bang bang! he olso can play with his heart as here valentina...i now him very well

[B8ovenLivesHere]

@lyuba90 He would knock her off the bench with all of his gestures!

[hrprada]

Enchanting. I want to hear you play more Schubert piano pieces.

[Waldstein65]

woooow, my fav Schubert peace, i try it for 30 years now..val ? var IV..in 06:19 ..

u dont like the Forte f there? i like ff there... mabe the recording take it ?

when i become rich i will ask you to play fff there.. :-) you played that pice, and the mozart very elegant and in Val quality...thank youuu your beeti andii

[EducationLover]

Perfect , excellent and amazing! Keep it up!

[mpakos18473]

A "Liszt project"....we are waiting.

Giving this chance, it would be an innovation to record some of the

songs in "Buch der lieder fur piano allein I, II" S531, S535-40. All these pieces are musical gems and generaly unknown. See for e.g. "Am Rhein im schonen strome" or the first version of Lorelei, or "Angiolin dal biondo crin"...

Greetings, we all love you very much...

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@mpakos18473 Do you know Op 6 Il Contrabandista ? It was written in a period when he still gave hsi pieces opus numbers . A really wild and wonderful piece.

[mpakos18473]

@ValentinaLisitsa

Thank you for your reply. You mean the "The smuggler" published in 1837 and dedicated to George Sand. Yes, I know it. It is written in Liszt's early maturity and it is very impressive.

But besides this, I think that the song trancriptions I mention earlier have the same musical quality as liebestraume 3 or chopin nocturnes and it's worth to be known. Have a look at them at your leisure. We are a bit tired hearing the same nocturnes and etudes in recordings and recitals.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@mpakos18473 It also says on the very first page of sheet music I ahve that it was originaly written for Piano and Orchestra. Totally lost

[mpakos18473]

@ValentinaLisitsa

Thank you for your reply. You mean the "The smuggler" published in 1837 and dedicated to George Sand. Yes, I know it. It is written in Liszt's early maturity and it's very impressive.

But besides this, I think that the song trancriptions I mention earlier have the same musical quality as liebestraume 3 or chopin nocturnes and it's worth to be known. Have a look at them at your leisure. We are a bit tired hearing the same nocturnes and etudes in recordings and recitals.

[mpakos18473]

@ValentinaLisitsa

Thank you for your reply. You mean the "The smuggler" published in 1837 and dedicated to George Sand. Yes, I know it. It is written in Liszt's early maturity and it's very impressive.

But besides this, I think that the song trancriptions I mention earlier have the same musical quality as liebestraume 3 or chopin nocturnes and it's worth to be known. Have a look at them at your leisure. We are a bit tired hearing the same nocturnes and etudes in recordings and recitals.

[MsFloopdedoop]

yayyyyyyyy she is back with more videos and recordings :) :) :)

[ThePianistOS]

Do you have bring the Bosendorfer with you? I can't imagine that many concert halls have them, as I always see Steinways.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@ThePianistOS There was an orfaned Steinway in the corner. It was very sad and upset with me :-)

Thsi is the first time i tried this particular instrument in cocnert setting. I am going to record Liszt project on it.

[vahidmirkhani]

Thank you Val.

[mavs972]

By far the best pianist on youtube, I'm sorry, among the best in the world. Youtube is nothing

[mavs972]

By far the best pianist on youtube, I'm sorry, among the best in the world. Youtube is nothing

[belegSJ]

By the way: what was the program of this recital? This impromptu, the mozart fantasy, then liszt ballade #2 and ... was there something else as well? :)

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@belegSJ Started with Mozart, them Beethoven Moonlight ( in Beethoven home , naturally ) , Schubert Impromptu , Strauss-Godowsky Fledermaus - intermission- Chopin 3 nocturnes : C minor, DFlat and E Flat Major, Liszt Ballade, Verdi-Liszt Aida , Hungarian Rhapsody #12 , Totentanz, Fur Elise as an encore

[belegSJ]

@ValentinaLisitsa What a long recital! Could you by any chance upload the Verdi-Liszt - Aida (providing that you shoot the whole recital)... I love that piece so much :-)

I'm already excited about the concert in Helsinki next February! That is, I'm wondering where I'll get to sit, what encores you'll play (hopefully many!) ... So typical for me, this kind of a over-enthusiasm ..!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@belegSJ I will upload Verdi-List Aida , maybe next weekend though :-)

[belegSJ]

@ValentinaLisitsa Great, thanks!

[Zuukarimoto]

@ValentinaLisitsa I wish I was there. I love your interpretation of totentaz, fur elise, moonlight sonata etc. I could go on, but I'd just be listing out all the songs you played.

[mcrettable]

I love this performance :) Are you going to record any Haydn?

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@mcrettable I guess I could :-) I can put an audio in a pinch . I don't have any videos ready

[mcrettable]

@ValentinaLisitsa I would love the audio!! Thank you so much! I'll buy it too.

[AlgarismosGomes]

Hope you bring some DVDs to Brazil when in concert, I really want them in my collection :(

[abeleveh]

¿Que voy a decir? SHUBERT y LISITSA, ¡que más puedo soñar! .

[AlgarismosGomes]

Oh, Val, I'm glad you're coming back to Brazil (our summer or yours? :P)

But, serious, what a shame those labels. On June, I was looking for yours Schubert-Liszt Schwanengesang DVD to gift my English teacher (he was moving to another state, and he likes classical music as well), but I couldn't find any of yours! (not even on importers) I didn't have time to import by myself your DVD (he was moving in the next week), so I had to take Idil Biret one :(

I'll be emailing those labels, very unfair!

[belegSJ]

@AlgarismosGomes I know what you mean, I've been trying to get my hands on the Schwanengesang-dvd for ages too. And the other two DVD's as well ...to no avail. It sucks to live in Europe. :-) Hopefully the Rach-cd will be found here in finland as well when it comes out - I seriously cannot understand why the record label is hesitating with it, it sounds divine (and my opinion is based on material from the recording sessions, there are clips in Valentina's and PieterdeRooijHolland's channel :-) )

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@belegSJ Exactly ! I can only sell on Amazon US and at the concerts. Everything else is for "real" labels.

[AlgarismosGomes]

@belegSJ Just emailed DG, but their form was sent so fast that I doubt my message really went to the label HQ. Well, hope I'm wrong.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@AlgarismosGomes The best and guaranteed way to do it - strangely enough - through the press :) They still pay attnetion to it . Do you know Norman Lebrecht's Slipped Disc blog ? It is UK based and he is the msot respected critic and writer in msuic circles. He wrote two posts about me beeing known only on YT - last week.

If you put your comments on his blog - it is going to be read , guaranteed :-) Easy to find , just search Slipped Disc Lisitsa

[AlgarismosGomes]

@ValentinaLisitsa Just commented the article. I read it last week. In the first time, found it a nice big deal (anyway it is), but now I see how comes you are so good and doesn't have space in the selling market.

Hope (really!) it change. Want people to hear you more. They can't be deprived (is that the right word?) of your music. It's really hard to find a pianist like you (and even more turning into one like you!), so please, don't give up. We are here for everything you need :)

[Nuighon]

I just realized, that you have been in Germany and I missed it... It would be great, if you would come again some time, and I hope, that I won't miss your concert again!!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@Nuighon I might be back with a cocnert as early as December. I have a few next year - in spring , April 17th in Dortmund ( Rachmaninoff and Scriabin ), and in Freiburg with Mozart Concerto D Minor in May ....and there is a recital in Kempen in January.

[mamakokonao]

Upload of YouTube of the Mrs.Val! day after day is very nice.

As for your performance, I always am always attracted by a beautiful sound.

You have uploaded the improvisation of this Schubert before. This music is very pure, and I am healed very much.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@mamakokonao  Thank you :-))

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

This is awesome! I so forgive you for playing Shostakovich hehe. :)

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@8Ho03EdONl1liL hehehe ... did you see, you started a firestorm of discussion there :-)

But , listening to this piece, put yourself in Mozart contemoparies shoes : this was very much dissonant and atonal music , grating on their ears , and disturbing their polite sensibilities :) There is not much written before this piece which would have been equally dark and hopeless

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

@ValentinaLisitsa I don't think Mozart's contemporaries would find this piece too odd. I don't so that's proof enough for me! It's more listener-friendly than the some music of its day. 4:04 to 6:04 of this is pretty dark, but I find parts of Mozart's Requiem k. 626 or the finale of Don Giovanni much, much, much darker. On a more important note (F), your hair is very nice - thin, blonde, and straight - what more could one want? :) BTW, what are your favorite works or composers? :D

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@8Ho03EdONl1liL In Don Giovanni he had to write in a very lame Finale - a happy end :-) Which doesn't fit the piece at all and jsut served to deflect listeners' concern. In Requiem he didn't care about what peopel think . it was not for them but for eternity .

[8Ho03EdONl1liL]

@ValentinaLisitsa Oops, I tend to think of the Commendatore Scene as the finale! :D Forgive me, dear lady. It is a shame Mozart wasn't able to write whatever he wanted; we could use more profound works like his "Lech Mich Im Arsch" (Kiss My Ass) canon hehe. Really though, his "Pa pa pa pa" aria in The Magic Flute only came about after he was told, "Hey, Mozart! That's no good..." about his original. :-| The nerve of people back then!

[sebastianrc]

Colombia!!!!! pleaseeeee :)...and Chopin Ballade :P

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@sebastianrc looks like I will have a few recitals in Colombia next July or August. Can't wait to come - it is so beautiful there.

[sebastianrc]

@ValentinaLisitsa Beautiful indeed :) It will be great to have you here, I hope I can assist to the concert. Don't forget the Ballade please and thak you for the answer

[trp8155]

You have to upload vids of you playing the transcendental etudes soon!!!!!! Please!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@trp8155 then I will have to start learning them right now :)

[jorgeliebermann]

@ValentinaLisitsa Bravo....!

[CultOfKingJeff]

your hair is so shiney and vibrant...do you use pantene or maybe salon selectives?

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@CultOfKingJeff sigh , if you really want to know ;-) Chi Organics line - silk oil and olive glaze :-) Found both on sale at TJ Maxx :-) My hair is awfully fine and gets frizzy with a first drop of rain or any humidity . I see peopel complain about my hair in videos - but what can i do ? I do get get sweaty when I play and that's the end of my hair :-)

[Kaggypants]

@ValentinaLisitsa I don't understand how people can even focus on your hair with such magnificent playing.

[arafelyb]

@CultOfKingJeff She also plays the piano!, Did you realize?

[CultOfKingJeff]

@arafelyb indeed, we are fortunate to have her here in our lifetime...she is precious.

[arafelyb]

@CultOfKingJeff I completely agree with you, and the aim here is that she plays precious too. Let's enjoy the piano music (maybe without close our eyes =)

[XamNestRezReced]

I find amazing that you have such a vast repertory. You can play every piece that is put in front of you. I wish I had that ability T.T....

[maaanny16]

Omgish come to Toronto plllleeeeeaaasseee!! Ill pay whatever i have to pay to be up infront to see you play live! LOL. Watching your videos ALWAYS motivates me to keep going. Keep them coming please, you inspire everyone and especially rookies like me who started playing very late! Haha.

[pianista151]

I heart this piece!!!! i wish u could be my piano teacher...

[PowerNdust]

The sound of a Bosendorfer is always beautiful.

Bravo :)

[andreastrato]

@PowerNdust Brava! she's a woman! :) cheers from Italy

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@PowerNdust This is one of the best "specimens " of Bosy brand. I played it first time at Bielefild germany and it had a wonderful sound but was in terrible state of neglect. I think it was originally sold to US , but then whoever bought it got bankrupted , so the piano was reposessed by a dealer - and taken back to Europe. I beleive from now on it will be in hands of my piano technician ,Gerd Finkenstein . He , by the way , rents it out - jsut like his fabulous Steinway ...

[fevercovers]

Hey Valentina, you're amazing. Come back to Brazil again please :) Where can I find the recordings of Rach Project? [...] marry me

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@fevercovers Answers : 1> working on coming back to Brazil next summer 2. Call or email recording lables and ask what is happening with Rach ....I am tired and annoyed of waiting for them. 3. No :-)

[stevef095]

@ValentinaLisitsa Any chance of an Australian visit? Sydney Opera house is waiting for you :)

[Steinwaytoday]

@fevercovers Now you can say that you proposed marriage to Valentina Lisitsa (however poorly) and got rejected :D

[fevercovers]

@Steinwaytoday i'll not quit u.u

[Toungester]

Brilliant!