I haven't played either of them, but it is my immediate impression that the student who wishes to play this etude well, should first play etude op. 10 no. 2, which trains the 3rd, 4th and 5th finger on the right hand.
@BjornHegstad no 6 is a triplet speed study. most efficient exercise for triplets are triplet scales and five finger triplet exercises. wasting time if not proficient in these before starting no 6, particularly harmonic minor and diminished sevenths. for no 2., most efficient exercises for 3/4/5 fingers are 5 finger exercises and chromatic scales, eg hanon. naturally weaker fingers should be developed before seriously studying no. 2. no 6 is generally encouraged before no 2.
@BjornHegstad from experience,25/6 is easier to learn. if you've conquered minor third chromatics, a variety of triplet scales (more the better), and comfortable with diminished sevenths, you'll find 25/6 may look intimidating on the page but will be very intuitive. 25/6 is "harder" in that the tonal shading is more demanding. for 10/2...
@BjornHegstad (cont.) for 10/2, it's actually very awkward for the right hand at moderate/full tempo. it may appear easier perhaps b/c the hands are not jumping, no arpeggios, just block chords in the left and right, and the right is moving up & down chromatically with fingers 3/4/5. but visually the difficulty of the piece is very deceptive. after studying chromatic 3/4/5, take the first four/eight measures to condition your hand. page 2, harder. practice & patience w/ this one.
im not trying to hate. BUT she does skip a lot of the lower notes in the thirds. especially on the runs going up. it is almost impossible, but if you use chopins fingering of sliding the index finger from black key to white key, it is a little easier. she neglects to use this fingering and therefore has to fudge the bottom notes a lot of times.
You have to be a pianist to fully appreciate how hard this particular etude is to play on just a technical level. Harder still is to play it with the requisite ease and control, as Valentina does, that turns this "study" into pure music.
OK, you say it's easy with practice. I say it's hard even for a concert pianist to play correctly. In the Chopin Competition (2010), nobody played this etude right. You need technique, stamina, flexible poignee. You can't play this etude after 3 years of piano study, nor after 6. And I think MRSklavier is right, even if he/she has been playing for 3 years. And who are you to discriminate and discourage somebody if she/he is playing another instrument?
how do you know i don't play piano you stupid? really... i've been playing piano for 3 years....and i'm playing this etude this semester..actually...i just think passages like 00:15 are very difficult to play correctly...besides I just said its difficult what is your problem? really....
Valentina, let me just say, you play beautifully. I assume you started piano at 6 years old, but I could be wrong. Maybe even 5. I started when I was 8.
There is a very easy trick for playing this piece. First know the notes you are going to play, then recognize that many of the note combinations are two sixteenth notes being played then two sixteenth notes 1 note below or above those notes. That combined with the repetitive beginning part makes the piece easy to comprehend.
I'd also like to point out that even people who play other instruments can't even comprehend how difficult a lot of advanced piano pieces are. That being said, just because a piano piece is advanced doesn't mean it's difficult. It all takes practing. For the clueless person who said her fingers were gliding, playing multiple sixteenth notes where most of the time two notes are in each hand with not many hard note combinations is not that hard .
incredible playing technique including the thumb moves incredibly. to see you play I feel you are an amateur just incredible I'd like to hear some of Maurice Ravel the jeux d'eau. I HOPE YOU LEAVE FOR HUMANITY IS MORE THAN YOU AND YOUR PERFORMANCES. CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!
I find it very odd and strange that you would say an etude is difficult if you have never even played piano or have come close to mastering the piano. Only a true pianist who has played for many years could decide how difficult it is. I have been playing piano for 7 years and it's a difficult piece to play fast at first, but once you know the notes, then perfecting the piece becomes a piece of cake. I sight read the piece and perfected it in 2 days. Sight reading this piece isn't that difficult.
@ericjaames: Just practice and work hard because no matter what piece from any composer ( rachmanninoff, chopin, liszt or debussy.. etc) it will always be difficult, meaning new techniques or techniques must be developed much better and the sight-reading gets even more complicated... Work hard on the etudes.
@ericjaames When playing this piece you have to raise your hand (right hand) to where the fingers are almost pointing completely down. I noticed people doing that when they play it and it definitely makes it a lot easier. Once you get the pattern going, the piece is easy.
She plays this with such sensitivity -- there's something about this piece that sounds so "breezy", especially that part at 1:08 - 1:14. It's like personifying the wind through music -- I think much more so than the so-called "Winter-Wind" Etude, which I don't think sounds anything like that (but is absolutely gorgeous!).
No wonder Chopin didn't want his pieces nick-named!
Thus far into the etudes, I am amazed! She is like the best of Liszt and Chopin rolled up in one. Extremely dynamic virtuoso, and with age, her musical personality will be simply marvelous. Reminds me of a young Uchida. I highly recommend Valentina's interpretation of Beet Root's Appassionata and Rachmaninoff's Little Red Riding Hood.
her hand just wafts up those thirds runs like the border of a silk scarf floating in the breeze. well let me go practice those first 2 measures again...
@VyvienneEaux But y'know what? An etude is a piece to help the player with certain skills. Etude is the french word for study apparently. You're so right though :D I only learned all that like 2 days ago :P I don't think they have meaning right?
@PublicLibraryx Don't worry. I know what an etude is. I've known it since forever. Chopin's etudes, as far as I have learned, are meant to first be learned technically, and then be learned musically. Chopin, it appears, intended these etudes to demonstrate theme and composition, as well as technique.
@VyvienneEaux Oh kewl :D I wouldnt dare going learning these types of peices yet though. I only started playing piano last year. I'm oficially grade 5 now. But i'm not gonna go near these yet D: I lack the motivation.
@sdwulfdawg I thought he composed these etudes as musical studies for general use, and for friends. Friends would include other influential piano composers, such as Franz Liszt. He also wrote etudes to convey his feelings.
@93N39 I said essence. Not theory, phrasing, expression, or any shit that you people seem to like to substitute for essence. Example: biologists know the way life functions down to atoms, but they do not know what makes it work, or where complex minds come from, therefore, he cannot know the essence of life. What I am saying is that Chopin may have known something about the essence. Not necessarily the essence, but, for example, something about what makes music more than just the parts.
@SUPPLEANDFIRM So you're saying music theory explains why music can be so expressive of one's emotions? Are you also trying to get yourself and others to believe that Chopin did not consider his etudes to be musical? He did. Reply if you want evidence, but I'm tired right now.
@FranzofL I don't get it. Any ways, I like both men and boys far more than I should... Such a comment, containing both words, rather excite me. Sorry for the info.
I laughed when I tried to imagine myself playing this. I would destroy it. :) But you do it so beautifully and it looks easy when it's incredibly difficult!
here is the proof of the perfect contact with the piano Valentina Lisitsa has. This is a very diffficoult etude and needs perfect contact and relax. Otherwise the tempo does not come. Its a big chance for anybody who studies this etude to whatch here!!!
I like your delicate sound, and I also like how your crescendi and decrescendi really add to the "mystical" sound. Would you agree that this etude is really mystical and delicate?
You're really amazing! I'm playing this etude and I noticed your fingering and, well, it is very good because mine (I can't play it yet) is 4/1 and 5/2 on the first two thirds and it is less confortable than yours.
You're such a god, I admire you so much because you turn the hardest things into easiest, it's so good to watch and learn with pianists like you.
Congratulations, I'm waiting for a concert in Casa da Música, oPorto, Portugal (:
Valentina, did you, in your early years also study Cramer Bulow? It might be a great help for lesser players than yourself if you find the time to upload some of those practise pieces on YouTube. It would be an enormous advantage to have those pieces as an example and played by such a talented player as yourself. Also, most of those melodies are beautiful in there own right as well. As many others commented as well, we will probably never be able to play those Chopin Etudes as you do.....
Fantastic! A superior piano lesson to watch the fingerwork (however very few in the world can expect to attain that level of relaxation). Also incredibly beatiful work with pedal and harmonies.
this is unbelievable...she plays this terribly difficult piece with such a beauty! brilliant... and interesting fingering she is using at the beginning in the right hand.
What doesn't mean you don't like this etude? Just because you wish you played as well as her doesn't mean you don't like this etude. I am pretty sure you like this etude but don't want to admit it.
I am never able to litsen this piece for more than 1 minute because i can feel my own hands hurting. I played this before but i gave up. This really hurts my hand. When i litsen you playing it hurts alot. Any tips on trying this piece? I am still trying btw.
Thirds are very difficult to execute and take lots of practice to be able to get them fast. Keep practicing them slowly, but if you feel pain/tension, RELAX.
Now I remember why I quit the piano!! It is hard!!! She plays these impossible pieces perfectly!!!! ARRRRGH!!!! Very jealous here but dealing with it!
This is just amazing. I've tried this million times with much much slower tempo than this, but with no success ever. As someone said, this is certainly one of the most difficult piece of Chopin.
I think that to do these thirds you have to begin studying piano with very early age.... so your fingers will adapt to it... Its not my case.. my fingers just cant do this... its really impossible to my fingers to do these thirds...
Or just do finger exercises regularly. Because when you try to move the fingers you need for this piece at the same time your brain tries to move others too. You just need to train yourself so that you can move fingers individually. 15 minutes a day is all you really need to work your way up.
this etude frustrates me. does anyone know the fingering for the beginning of this song? it looks like she's using both 4 and 5 to push down the keys at the beginning...which is strange to me.
I personally think Whispers of the Wind (is it called that?) is harder. If you master chromaticism, and of course, trilling with the 4th and 5th finger and various other patterns, you already have most of the piece, even though that in itself is extremely difficult.
this is my favourite performance of this etude... she plays chopin's etude very well... bravA Valentina sei straordinaria anke dall'italia ti adoriamo *-*
Too many notes..... haha
ternak001 2 weeks ago
My hands are a bit jealous...quite inevitable, really.
PhantomStella 2 weeks ago
pshh, i can play this in my sleep. of course, only when i'm dreaming.
PianoDude1011 2 weeks ago
Have you guys seen Sergio Tiempo's study on Chopin etudes?!
He combines op 10 no 12 and this one together lol.
The left hand plays revolutionary etude, and the right hand plays this third etude!
tjtheplay 3 weeks ago
Before trying to play this song, I never had to use my pinky so much.
Skytheater 1 month ago
I would have say, this is one of the best versions I have ever listened to
Hoffnungster 1 month ago
Wow, such effortless scales in thirds! Her fingers look as if they're just tickling the keys... whereas mine look like rhinoceros having seizures.
Sphenni 1 month ago 8
damn.. i really envy valentina for her 3rds.. they seem so light and easy.. gotta do this piece again...
agniky 1 month ago
I haven't played either of them, but it is my immediate impression that the student who wishes to play this etude well, should first play etude op. 10 no. 2, which trains the 3rd, 4th and 5th finger on the right hand.
BjornHegstad 2 months ago in playlist Chopin Etudes Litsita
@BjornHegstad no 6 is a triplet speed study. most efficient exercise for triplets are triplet scales and five finger triplet exercises. wasting time if not proficient in these before starting no 6, particularly harmonic minor and diminished sevenths. for no 2., most efficient exercises for 3/4/5 fingers are 5 finger exercises and chromatic scales, eg hanon. naturally weaker fingers should be developed before seriously studying no. 2. no 6 is generally encouraged before no 2.
jhardknox 1 month ago
@jhardknox Your suggested exercises are spot on. As for studying either one before the other, I dunno - no. 6 is harder than no. 2, isn't it?
BjornHegstad 1 month ago
@BjornHegstad from experience,25/6 is easier to learn. if you've conquered minor third chromatics, a variety of triplet scales (more the better), and comfortable with diminished sevenths, you'll find 25/6 may look intimidating on the page but will be very intuitive. 25/6 is "harder" in that the tonal shading is more demanding. for 10/2...
jhardknox 1 month ago
@BjornHegstad (cont.) for 10/2, it's actually very awkward for the right hand at moderate/full tempo. it may appear easier perhaps b/c the hands are not jumping, no arpeggios, just block chords in the left and right, and the right is moving up & down chromatically with fingers 3/4/5. but visually the difficulty of the piece is very deceptive. after studying chromatic 3/4/5, take the first four/eight measures to condition your hand. page 2, harder. practice & patience w/ this one.
jhardknox 1 month ago
Well weve all heard flight of the bumble bee
This must be .. "flight of the Bumble Bees !"
ancientsolar 2 months ago 16
and say that I'm going to play this piece ... I'm afraid
proutietruc 3 months ago
i wish i could hear the left hand more, maybe its just my speaker settings
xthorpyx 3 months ago
Valentina is related to Liszt!
BassicStorm 3 months ago
The ending is like an apology for the hell he just unleashed on your hands.
Kaggypants 4 months ago 2
I'm scared..
adeadone 4 months ago 2
im not trying to hate. BUT she does skip a lot of the lower notes in the thirds. especially on the runs going up. it is almost impossible, but if you use chopins fingering of sliding the index finger from black key to white key, it is a little easier. she neglects to use this fingering and therefore has to fudge the bottom notes a lot of times.
still very good tho! keep it up valentina!
iwritesmusic 4 months ago
I would like to meet her forearms one day
ihaterunescape 5 months ago
THIRDS
nuf said.
MsFloopdedoop 5 months ago in playlist Valentina Lisitsa Chopin 24 etudes op. 10 + 25
Also called the fucking hard etude
lousycactus 5 months ago
the keys seem so light, I wish I have that kind of finger strength, or the kind of piano with light keys...
TheRiskyBoxSpread 5 months ago
Genius!
JulieT026 6 months ago
You have to be a pianist to fully appreciate how hard this particular etude is to play on just a technical level. Harder still is to play it with the requisite ease and control, as Valentina does, that turns this "study" into pure music.
TheHankster30 6 months ago
OK, you say it's easy with practice. I say it's hard even for a concert pianist to play correctly. In the Chopin Competition (2010), nobody played this etude right. You need technique, stamina, flexible poignee. You can't play this etude after 3 years of piano study, nor after 6. And I think MRSklavier is right, even if he/she has been playing for 3 years. And who are you to discriminate and discourage somebody if she/he is playing another instrument?
NewRachmaninoff 6 months ago
You played the last several notes with such awesome expression.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
At 1:24 when you go up and down with so many notes it is just so nice to hear you play.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
At 49 seconds your expression with the lower notes and the combinations of notes in the right and left hand make it sound like heaven when you play.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
At 49 seconds and around there you sound amazing!
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
how do you know i don't play piano you stupid? really... i've been playing piano for 3 years....and i'm playing this etude this semester..actually...i just think passages like 00:15 are very difficult to play correctly...besides I just said its difficult what is your problem? really....
MRSklavier 6 months ago
For the repetitive beginning part you play so fast and well you almost make the left hand sound like a waltz. Amazing performance.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
That's a pretty low note at 24 seconds!
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
Valentina, let me just say, you play beautifully. I assume you started piano at 6 years old, but I could be wrong. Maybe even 5. I started when I was 8.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
Starting at 22 seconds there are a lot of notes being played at once which can make the piece hard to play well if you don't practice it enough.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
There is a very easy trick for playing this piece. First know the notes you are going to play, then recognize that many of the note combinations are two sixteenth notes being played then two sixteenth notes 1 note below or above those notes. That combined with the repetitive beginning part makes the piece easy to comprehend.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
I'd also like to point out that even people who play other instruments can't even comprehend how difficult a lot of advanced piano pieces are. That being said, just because a piano piece is advanced doesn't mean it's difficult. It all takes practing. For the clueless person who said her fingers were gliding, playing multiple sixteenth notes where most of the time two notes are in each hand with not many hard note combinations is not that hard .
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
ya 6 fou ca terre
Cathoubinou1 7 months ago
Dear Valentina, what did you find the hardest of all the Chopin etudes?
dship98 7 months ago
incredible playing technique including the thumb moves incredibly. to see you play I feel you are an amateur just incredible I'd like to hear some of Maurice Ravel the jeux d'eau. I HOPE YOU LEAVE FOR HUMANITY IS MORE THAN YOU AND YOUR PERFORMANCES. CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!
lmcscriabin 7 months ago
So you're saying you want her to leave and don't want to hear her awesome piano playing? What a horrible thing to say!
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
this etude IS difficult T.T
MRSklavier 7 months ago
I find it very odd and strange that you would say an etude is difficult if you have never even played piano or have come close to mastering the piano. Only a true pianist who has played for many years could decide how difficult it is. I have been playing piano for 7 years and it's a difficult piece to play fast at first, but once you know the notes, then perfecting the piece becomes a piece of cake. I sight read the piece and perfected it in 2 days. Sight reading this piece isn't that difficult.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
My piano teacher was going through the Etude with me, playing bits of each one. She came to this one and said "number 6 is hell. It's just hell."
ericjaames 8 months ago 49
@ericjaames: Just practice and work hard because no matter what piece from any composer ( rachmanninoff, chopin, liszt or debussy.. etc) it will always be difficult, meaning new techniques or techniques must be developed much better and the sight-reading gets even more complicated... Work hard on the etudes.
lienmoysam 5 months ago
@ericjaames Hmmm...wonder why! :-)
EmilyBearfan 5 months ago
@ericjaames
If your teacher considers playing thirds with the right hand as 'hell', how would she consider playing thirds with the left hand then..
aslkfja 3 months ago
@aslkfja She was talking about the whole piece in general. She would probably consider playing thirds with the left hand as the same thing
ericjaames 3 months ago
@ericjaames When playing this piece you have to raise your hand (right hand) to where the fingers are almost pointing completely down. I noticed people doing that when they play it and it definitely makes it a lot easier. Once you get the pattern going, the piece is easy.
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jhardknox 1 month ago
I think she beats all those little Asian kids.
InflatiblePalmTree 8 months ago
...I just can't even believe a human being composed this...
millerbeezie 8 months ago
@millerbeezie thats a very odd thing to say
KeptNow 8 months ago
fuck how did he do it... this shit is crazy
Tubztele 8 months ago
She plays this with such sensitivity -- there's something about this piece that sounds so "breezy", especially that part at 1:08 - 1:14. It's like personifying the wind through music -- I think much more so than the so-called "Winter-Wind" Etude, which I don't think sounds anything like that (but is absolutely gorgeous!).
No wonder Chopin didn't want his pieces nick-named!
ZachEatonMusic 8 months ago
I'm glad the camera was on her hand the majority of the time. Proof that she know's what she's doing.
Hitherto90 9 months ago
Thus far into the etudes, I am amazed! She is like the best of Liszt and Chopin rolled up in one. Extremely dynamic virtuoso, and with age, her musical personality will be simply marvelous. Reminds me of a young Uchida. I highly recommend Valentina's interpretation of Beet Root's Appassionata and Rachmaninoff's Little Red Riding Hood.
ronbobathon 9 months ago
that is called: playing with elegance
asalinas16 9 months ago
She makes it look so easy... WHICHI IS NOT!
artonepiano 10 months ago
這也未免太難了吧？！ 我看是蕭邦故意惡整大家用的練習曲！
不過，這位大哥彈得真棒。。。
work365days 10 months ago
It disappoints me that as good as she is, there isn't 720p or 1080p to show off her great fingers.
MOGULMANv 10 months ago
her hand just wafts up those thirds runs like the border of a silk scarf floating in the breeze. well let me go practice those first 2 measures again...
katiush65 10 months ago
wtf those are absolutly perfect thirds lol
krisevan1 10 months ago
Chopin must have understood something about the essence of music to compose his études.
VyvienneEaux 11 months ago 18
@VyvienneEaux But y'know what? An etude is a piece to help the player with certain skills. Etude is the french word for study apparently. You're so right though :D I only learned all that like 2 days ago :P I don't think they have meaning right?
PublicLibraryx 10 months ago
@PublicLibraryx Don't worry. I know what an etude is. I've known it since forever. Chopin's etudes, as far as I have learned, are meant to first be learned technically, and then be learned musically. Chopin, it appears, intended these etudes to demonstrate theme and composition, as well as technique.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux Oh kewl :D I wouldnt dare going learning these types of peices yet though. I only started playing piano last year. I'm oficially grade 5 now. But i'm not gonna go near these yet D: I lack the motivation.
PublicLibraryx 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux Chopin actually composed these piano etudes as exercises for himself.
sdwulfdawg 8 months ago
@sdwulfdawg I thought he composed these etudes as musical studies for general use, and for friends. Friends would include other influential piano composers, such as Franz Liszt. He also wrote etudes to convey his feelings.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux
Nonsense, he was obviously CLUELESS!!! jk :P
hanshead 6 months ago
@hanshead I said the essence. Not music theory. Reply if you want me to go further, but I'm tired, so i don't feel like typing a long reply myself.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux Duh!
93N39 6 months ago in playlist Chopin
@93N39 I said essence. Not theory, phrasing, expression, or any shit that you people seem to like to substitute for essence. Example: biologists know the way life functions down to atoms, but they do not know what makes it work, or where complex minds come from, therefore, he cannot know the essence of life. What I am saying is that Chopin may have known something about the essence. Not necessarily the essence, but, for example, something about what makes music more than just the parts.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux music theory.
SUPPLEANDFIRM 6 months ago
@SUPPLEANDFIRM So you're saying music theory explains why music can be so expressive of one's emotions? Are you also trying to get yourself and others to believe that Chopin did not consider his etudes to be musical? He did. Reply if you want evidence, but I'm tired right now.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux I want evidence.
SUPPLEANDFIRM 5 months ago
@SUPPLEANDFIRM Evidence of what? I'm not sure, because I've posted so many times here.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
@VyvienneEaux that is an understatement!
Zorguel 4 months ago
This is the etude that sets the men apart from the boys...
...Wait a minute...
FranzofL 11 months ago
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@FranzofL It shows the manliness of one. If you're a fag you can't play this.
invertedchords 10 months ago
@FranzofL
That's right, only real men can play this.
invertedchords 10 months ago
@invertedchords
-and obviously at least ONE woman --!
faxfix1 10 months ago
@FranzofL I don't get it. Any ways, I like both men and boys far more than I should... Such a comment, containing both words, rather excite me. Sorry for the info.
VyvienneEaux 5 months ago
1:08 to 1:14 is the most pure beauty...
victorfreiman 11 months ago
easily the hardest chopin etude
thisnamehas18letters 11 months ago
los 5 votos en contra son de regguetoneros
joseescc 11 months ago
For some reason it reminds me of a vampire flying around.
Orisis45 1 year ago
@Orisis45 lol!
DadoD999 11 months ago
I laughed when I tried to imagine myself playing this. I would destroy it. :) But you do it so beautifully and it looks easy when it's incredibly difficult!
MsThisNameIsTaken 1 year ago
Just Perfect
Choltik 1 year ago
so light!! incredible!!
chrism216 1 year ago
here is the proof of the perfect contact with the piano Valentina Lisitsa has. This is a very diffficoult etude and needs perfect contact and relax. Otherwise the tempo does not come. Its a big chance for anybody who studies this etude to whatch here!!!
uhartchristian 1 year ago
she plays it really well, but the song reminds me of a mosquito buzzing in my ear.
oHeyitsthatguy 1 year ago
her piano has really quick action
TwelfthRoot2 1 year ago
If Valentina wasn't gifted I'd say it's almost supernatural. She's amazing and must have studied a lot to reach this perfeccionist level. Terrific!!!
cristiannesimartins 1 year ago
I like your delicate sound, and I also like how your crescendi and decrescendi really add to the "mystical" sound. Would you agree that this etude is really mystical and delicate?
OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
O M G
atanasios 1 year ago
i want to mary her....
tommy80jm 1 year ago
shes so damn good^^ too good^^
BassicStorm 1 year ago
that is...amazing. :O
Zorkion 1 year ago
she has a soft key piano
it makes i easyer
But she very good
any negative commits are people who they cant play better , hatin
pianoorganman 1 year ago 2
Hi valentina :)
You're really amazing! I'm playing this etude and I noticed your fingering and, well, it is very good because mine (I can't play it yet) is 4/1 and 5/2 on the first two thirds and it is less confortable than yours.
You're such a god, I admire you so much because you turn the hardest things into easiest, it's so good to watch and learn with pianists like you.
Congratulations, I'm waiting for a concert in Casa da Música, oPorto, Portugal (:
pedroborges78 1 year ago
Whatever she is doing is physically impossible. I'm speechless......
Dinamilson 1 year ago
wow!
vlatkoijasa95 1 year ago
This is nasty how easy this is for her o.O
swordchucks4life 1 year ago
I think this is by far the hardest chopin etude, the only etude ive accomplished is op10 no5
MrPizzaCutter 1 year ago
Valentina, did you, in your early years also study Cramer Bulow? It might be a great help for lesser players than yourself if you find the time to upload some of those practise pieces on YouTube. It would be an enormous advantage to have those pieces as an example and played by such a talented player as yourself. Also, most of those melodies are beautiful in there own right as well. As many others commented as well, we will probably never be able to play those Chopin Etudes as you do.....
ThomasVerloop 1 year ago
Fantastic! A superior piano lesson to watch the fingerwork (however very few in the world can expect to attain that level of relaxation). Also incredibly beatiful work with pedal and harmonies.
alinnman 1 year ago
she is a butterfly .....
pipillotta 1 year ago
at 0:10 is it supposed to be an A flat or A sharp?
EJLIU92 1 year ago
@EJLIU92 Different edition offer either so take your pick. Both are correct and pianists choose which ever one appeals to them.
JoeTownley 1 year ago
at 0:10 is it supposed to be an A flat or A sharp?
EJLIU92 1 year ago
almost no misses amazin
abokadoSM 1 year ago
this is unbelievable...she plays this terribly difficult piece with such a beauty! brilliant... and interesting fingering she is using at the beginning in the right hand.
hotbebimauz 1 year ago
PERFECT
Palanscpalansc 1 year ago
fantastic
timurgran 1 year ago
Dear lord..
one can at most hope to play slightly as good as her if conceded with infinit talent..
ok.. i'm astounded
Mussul 1 year ago
How do you use the pedal for this song?
Esdess 1 year ago
@Esdess That's a very good question ;D
Kivimusic 1 year ago
does anyone have a good way to practice this etude? i have read cortort's edition. but still can't play very easily. thank you =)
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amazing, fabulous, fantastic!!
DoctorYDE 1 year ago
amazing, fabulous, fantastic!!
DoctorYDE 1 year ago
technically sound. love the diction in this
DualThunder 1 year ago
@DualThunder Diction? DICTION? lol You are a moron.
SUPPLEANDFIRM 1 year ago
I'm practicing now the DOUBLE noutes...
to be honest,,, IT IS SO DIFFICULT!!!!
salamence47 1 year ago
Valentina, your performance is too perfect, words aren't enough to describe something above perfection.
BBaudelaire 1 year ago
She is so amazing.
Look @ 0:16. Her fingers are like floating above the keys and her playing is so fluid as if she would be moving her hands in water!
She's a true talent, and absolutely my favorite pianist. I like her versions of Chopin's etudes the most.
belegSJ 2 years ago 2
I love this study, there's something undefinable
nobulle 2 years ago
wauuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu perfecto, isnt to fast, is perfect
kristuska9999 2 years ago
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I think she played it too fast
bill3209 2 years ago
wonderful...bravo
joanabutterflyz 2 years ago
hope I could be as good as her!!!:P
pls play Transcendental Etude no. 5 "feux follets" of Franz Liszt. It's my favorite etude!
but it doesn't mean I don't like this etude!
this etude reminds me of my last piano competition and I also played this !
IT'S A WINNING PIECE~!!! :P
salamence47 2 years ago 10
What doesn't mean you don't like this etude? Just because you wish you played as well as her doesn't mean you don't like this etude. I am pretty sure you like this etude but don't want to admit it.
maxwel411411411 6 months ago
@salamence47
I'm sorry, but Liszt's etudes got nothing on Chopin's :P
hanshead 6 months ago
@hanshead wtf liszts transcendental etudes are technically much tougher than chopins!!!!....but chopin has them more lyrical which is his style
Axotrotl 6 months ago
Her fingers are flying!!! :-)
Then I say that a hummingbird is flying in the keyboard...
A melhor pianista do mundo...
Bravíssima, Valentina!
VideosAlcides 2 years ago 3
Her fingers are dancing! :)
jonprak 2 years ago
she makes it seems so easy!
niitac 2 years ago
just listening to this makes my body feel weak. . is this the power of the piano?
Swampinator 2 years ago
no it is the power of chopin
much more stronger than a grand piano
The55555SSSSS 2 years ago 3
The power of Chopin, a grand composer played on a grand piano by a grand pianist.
demosj 2 years ago
@The55555SSSSS it is also the power of the perfectly tuned Bosendorfer for the hardest pieces.
y1g1tcn 2 years ago 2
Was that not a trick of Chopin's; to play with such intensity that his audience fainted?
JakobLundgren 2 years ago
I am never able to litsen this piece for more than 1 minute because i can feel my own hands hurting. I played this before but i gave up. This really hurts my hand. When i litsen you playing it hurts alot. Any tips on trying this piece? I am still trying btw.
NodameSpecial 2 years ago
work work work work work work and continue working, it is the only one way you can do things in your life.
Alejandro270193 2 years ago 2
Thirds are very difficult to execute and take lots of practice to be able to get them fast. Keep practicing them slowly, but if you feel pain/tension, RELAX.
OrangeSodaKing 2 years ago
The fingers are floating, her fingers touch the notes so gently
BBaudelaire 2 years ago
Now I remember why I quit the piano!! It is hard!!! She plays these impossible pieces perfectly!!!! ARRRRGH!!!! Very jealous here but dealing with it!
Gman6755 2 years ago
This is just amazing. I've tried this million times with much much slower tempo than this, but with no success ever. As someone said, this is certainly one of the most difficult piece of Chopin.
r34cw 2 years ago
This skill is hardX100000000000!!
I play and play and play...always play this thirds skill, still can't play this tempo.
humorsin312 2 years ago
best etude ever!!! sort of speak
JamesTR4 2 years ago
I think that to do these thirds you have to begin studying piano with very early age.... so your fingers will adapt to it... Its not my case.. my fingers just cant do this... its really impossible to my fingers to do these thirds...
natyysantos 2 years ago
Or just do finger exercises regularly. Because when you try to move the fingers you need for this piece at the same time your brain tries to move others too. You just need to train yourself so that you can move fingers individually. 15 minutes a day is all you really need to work your way up.
stevey226 2 years ago
she is the best for this etude =) we can perceive all notes *___*
LittleArgerich 2 years ago
this etude frustrates me. does anyone know the fingering for the beginning of this song? it looks like she's using both 4 and 5 to push down the keys at the beginning...which is strange to me.
purpstheturtle 2 years ago
for the first measure- fingers 1,4 and 5,2 or 1,3 and 2,4.
for the second- fingers 1,3 and 2,5
for the third- like the first measure
I hope this helps! I have trouble playing this too. Don't worry, you'll get it soon, unlike me....
jonprak 2 years ago 3
Yes, and others use 2-3,15. VL has triumphed over all the difficulties. Hats off gentlemen.
gwizvideo 2 years ago
I tried that and it's a bit easier, but still pretty difficult. I'm just going to hold onto this etude and come back to it. :)
jonprak 2 years ago
This is hardest etude of Chopin
1905gsgs 2 years ago 3
i agree
Alejandro270193 2 years ago
I personally think Whispers of the Wind (is it called that?) is harder. If you master chromaticism, and of course, trilling with the 4th and 5th finger and various other patterns, you already have most of the piece, even though that in itself is extremely difficult.
alec234tar 2 years ago
It's something like the Liszt's tracendental No. 5 =P
edtskyline 2 years ago
PERFECT!! Incredible: looking at her, this study looks so easy and confortable.. Not for me!! I wait for a concert of hers in Italy!
AnnalisaFerrara86 2 years ago
the part at 0.16 should be played forte ; )
maxiczekos 2 years ago
My fingers don't understand the term "thirds" so I won't be able to play this. Well, at least I can watch someone who can.
jonprak 2 years ago
wow crappy playing...
Webarton 2 years ago
this is my favourite performance of this etude... she plays chopin's etude very well... bravA Valentina sei straordinaria anke dall'italia ti adoriamo *-*
LittleArgerich 2 years ago
i want her to give me a handjob
lonewolf604 2 years ago
wonderful playing and pretty performer, Chopin's technique and enough concentration to be listening and viewing many-a-time
beethomozart 2 years ago
This song in right hand very very difficult!!I try many times..still can't play this tempo!
humorsin312 2 years ago