Rachmaninoff Prelude in G major Op.32 #5 HQ

[Cuzipwnlikethat]

She makes this piece seem so effortless to play! Beautiful interpretation :)

[otgonbulgan]

wow~!!! Thank you!

[simiquaver]

Be still my heart.... Thank you.

[lj33p]

What a great pleasure this rendition is! Bravo! Thank You Valentina!

[thomasc65]

There is some Debbusy knocking around here me thinks:)

[ByYourCommand]

Her fingers seem to touch down so lightly, they look weightless. Yet she'd probably crush your hand if you were to shake hers.

[DropDeadModest]

@ByYourCommand I would love to shake her hand! :-D

[VideosAlcides]

Valentina, a beleza desta interpretação é quase indescritível...

[legallucy]

what am amazing piece. I truely do not know how to describe it, all i know is that is makes my heart explode

[buratto7]

She is one of the best pianists ive heard perform, no one else that i know can play Rachmaninoff as gracefully, beautifully and expressively as her. Incredible, so much so that it cant be put into words

[Harmonikk]

The lighting in this video is very psychologically appealing for the nature of this piece. Getting about halfway through the video I realized that the relatively surreal lighting seems to add a certain depth or clarity to each note. Interesting

[KIMHUYNGUYEN]

Valentina Lisitsa is dancing on a lake.

Magnificent artist

[nburton85]

Just fantastic, what an interpretation.. So effortless.

[odracir071]

What a great artist she is, and what incredible feelings come up on listening to this wonderfule piece of music.

[esbrockifeliz]

un angel ha llegado a tocar el piano...

[BlueRose389]

oh my god im tearing up this is so beautiful haha

[gouloum2222]

she's my favourite pianist and i would give anything to watch her in concert in France .But unfortunatly i don't think there are antything planed here ... :(

[tmsutherland07]

Wow.

Beautiful.

[TACHTIN3]

Wonderful piano touch

She has the talent of very delicate Music though she does dynamic piano touch like Argerich.

[Mage020692]

wooww i've never heard of this piece its so amazing!

[fabienKLE]

magnifique!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ntherewas1]

she looks like gwyneth paltrow

[bceugene]

This is the most mystically beautiful piece of classical music I've heard. The first 90 seconds is spellbinding. I wish Rachmaninoff had written more in this vein. VL's performance is the most sensitive and compelling of the versions I've heard here on YT.

[poopiefingledile88]

Dear Valentina; I am emotionally awed by your unmatched performance of this Prelude, You are Rachmaninoff incarnate,

we shall never see it played better.

Please come back to Seattle or Portland,

I'm dying to see you in solo performance.

your number one FAN

[jrdaw]

Perhaps it doesn't do to analyse but I wonder why this piece affects me like no other. When I first heard it I was in the car. Fortunately I had parked because I was transfixed.

Maybe its the way the melody floats so independently over the quintuplet groups in the left hand. Maybe its the way the melody melts extatically into that series of quiverings.

Whatever, it is both tender and strong, it fills me with wonder and tears roll gently.

Thank you Rachmaninoff, thank you Valentina.

[humorsin312]

wonderful notes!

[poopiefingledile88]

The best, the very best no contenders, thank you for your effort

[NOLIFEONLYDEATH]

Your playing never fails to entrance me, you are a flawless pianist!

Truly blessed, you are and so are your listeners to be able to hear the life you give to the music.

[athenaowl79]

valentina i came across you doing beethovens appasssionata and i couldnt get enough it was so beautiful and passionate! i have since then looked up every performance i could find and i have never seen anyone play as good as you!! your newest and most loving fan!!! bravo!!

[chutdigadut]

Valentina, your playing NEVER fails to touch me and I'm sure many others as well. Listening to you play is a gift from God. We Can't thank you enough for it.

[lectocom]

Gorgeous!!!!!

[TruChristian94]

very pretty. beautiful playing!

[Waldsteinn]

Ola Sra. Valentina, mi nombre es Ginés y siento no poder escribir en su idioma, pero sencillamente para decirle que me tiene locamente enamorado por que cada vez que veo un video suyo se me estremece el alma, pues no hace falta que sea en inglés.

Espero que de algún concierto en España, que si puedo iré a verla.

Ya me despido deseandole unas felices navidades y un prospero año nuevo.

Fdo. un admirador

[ValentinaLisitsa]

Muchísimas gracias !!!

[parazsdavid]

Rachmaninoff would have married you instantly had he heard you playing!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

It would be a terrible marriage indeed - two clinically depressed individuals :-)

[parazsdavid]

The more doleful you are the more pulchritudinous you become, Valentina.

[piano361]

@ValentinaLisitsa Valentina ehm why are you depressed ? don`t you like youre interpretations ?

I love you so pls answer my question as soon as you can my worshipped :)

[pavelkasl]

@ ValentinaLisitsa - tak bych si  tě vzal já :))

[mrbrianmccarthy]

@ValentinaLisitsa Valentina,Rachmaninof could only be so lucky---

[damv04]

@ValentinaLisitsa Math says that negative multiplied by another negative gives you positive. At least your children would have been happy. Lol.

[ValentinaFan]

Rachmaninoff hated having to go on trains and travel and go to halls and do concerts. He hated it but he never disappointed his audiences. Pianist - yes - one my mother watched in awe - but Composer foremost.

Rachmaninoff would quite simply have handed the concerts mantle of his works over to Valentina, and I'll bet he'd have watched her as a grateful member of the audience as well :)

[WafflePirate]

it amazing how gentle you can play, jealous indeed