He is lost in his own world, there is nothing there but a man and his piano. He truly defined the art of playing the ebony and ivory instrument, he is one of the greatest pianists of all time and will be forever loved, so long as you love good music, Liberace rest in peace and may your memory live on in the harmony of your songs and let them forever hold a place in our hearts. My only wish is that your songs will reach future generations and show them the beauty of music, like you showed us.~<3
ah man! the media brass forced him to cut out the second half of Beethoven's greatest piano masterpiece of all time?!? how dare they do that! the audacity!
but it was still beautiful. come hear me play it sometime ;)
@DestructionBattery Your not odd just because you are well aware of great talent. I saw him in concert and it was the best concert that I have ever been to.... RIP Lee
I like his music and I don't care that he was gay, but the man was a fucking nut job. He made his boy friend have plastic surgery so that he looked like Liberace. Yeah, Liberace had a fantasy of having sex with himself. Just thought I'd point out something interesting about him. Good music, good video, interesting dude.
Of all the YouTube clips of Lee doing Moonlight Sonata, this one may very well come closest to the track on his album "My Most Requested". Utterly spell-binding!
All you snobby tossers can p** off... Lee is better than any spoiled rich concert pianist you've seen. He didn't even practise, this guy could just play. He didn't need sheets like your crap conert players.
@nchannon1984 lol as much as I like your sentiment, you obviously don't know much about concert musicians when you say that liberace didn't need sheets. I've never EVER seen a concert musician that actually needed sheets (though they might have them in front of them). By the way, I love liberace, but I'm actually not personally the biggest fan of this rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. I've always preferred it to be a little more delicate and less deliberate. but liberace's is still great.
@weej267 That's a fair point but i've always been under the belief that sheets will only ever keep you "out of the zone" - even just a glance at them could put the pianist back into "school" mode - the reason I commented on his sheet-less performance is because you can see right there, he's feeling the music from head-to-toe. He isn't even thinking about any notes or anything apart from playing the music. Lee can play ANY style - even Boogie Woogie to a great extent - the guy's a legend!
My mom used to critisize his playing venomously, but we never missed his program. He knew that he was the focus of much critisizm. I remember one time he made a joke/comment about it. He said, with a tear in his eye, "I felt so bad that I cried all the way to the bank".
According to the encyclopedia, during the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world. Enough said, he achieved a level of success that made others jealous. Its easy to say he butchered music, but obviously he took boring pieces and made them perfect. The music he created will go down in history, while the others boring music is long forgotten.
This man was/is a great musician and showman. Who really can hold a candle to him today? He could play classical along with jazz, blues, and rock and roll, and do it all with panache, great techinque, style, and soul.
Loved by many, hated by a few. He brought more music to people than ANY of the "intellectual elite" did. They hated him for having the popularity they didn't, and who loves the selfpromoted intellectual elite anyway?
Just a wonderful showman. Great talent. Too bad that he didn't live long enough for HIV therapy drugs to come and save this amazing person who Wowed a ton of people. DennisM
You "critics" need to get a life. People rip on Liberace's style because they don't get that he was an entertainer. The guy was a pianist who incorporated classical music with contemporary popular music, and thus took his own spin on the pieces as he saw fit. Sure, it probably isn't 100% accurate, but you really doubt that if he wanted to he was more than capable of playing more faithfully?
His career made more people become interested in classical music than any of you snobs ever will.
There was a good part of this classical piece that was skipped for some reason. It is more less a finale stage of the piece. It is a combination of doubles of the same key on the left hand alternating rapidly, and it brings the listener to solemness. It is toward the end.
I never knew Liberace was into classical music. I didn't watch tv when I was growing up and Liberace was alive. My brother took control over the tv or my Dad took it away. Now I know. I learned this Moonlight Sonata when I was younger, it is a good learner piece for a beginner pianist. Nevertheless, Liberace did this well.
I love this man! Liberace was amazing. A man who could put emotion to those cold ivory keys! I don't care what some people say, he could play! His showmanship is just to accentuate what he could make those keys do.
@madamerotten - You think this is bad? Liberace became a national icon, the highest paid pianist ever, and was known around the world as "Mr. Showmanship". During the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world.
@YouCanSayIt I think I was commenting about some troll claiming that his piano playing was bad, which it is obvioulsy not. In my opinion, he was among the greatest of all pianists, past and present.
Playing a whole classical piece is not going to entertain the world's population, its going to bore them!!!! Thats why he shortened all his classical repertoir.
everytime i hear this music i think of the scene in Misery when Kathy Bates takes the sledgehammer to James Cann's ankles. funny thing is, it was because of that movie i became a fan of Liberace.
he is so amazing i'm writing a research report for him for my English essay at my middle school and his life is so interesting like how he grew from a loner of a child to one of the most beloved man of the 50-80s
@therealraybaby i know i love him and when i gave my presentation on him people were so mean calling him pratically a freak since he was homosexual but i'm like who cares he was still an amazing person! and you shouldn't judge him when you didn't take time to know the real him! and also they are making a movie on him but not the kind i would have wanted them to make since it is about the "scott thorson affair" only
@PaigeRMusic People can be so cruel :( He was not a freak at all. I agree he was amazing. I hate that they are making a movie based on that low life scum Scott Thorson
I always thought that this was one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces ever written for the piano. It reminds me of a special restaurant where I used to take my late wife when we first met. I always requested it from the lone piano player there. From the standpoint of complexity, it's a relatively simple piece even for a beginning student, but it's always been beautiful and reflective.
Say what you want about Liberace, I think he did the world a favor by being a showman on the piano and bringing in a new audience during rock n roll's early days. Much can be said about Lang Lang, people don't like his over the top playing but if it brings in interest all the better for the music and all classical musicians.
Artelron: I love everything about Liberace,i love over the top/flamboyant people. I have been a lover of classical music since I was 8 and I'm in my 20's now. I think he really brought something to the music world
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How can this queer be attractive? Your profile leads me to believe you are female,only gay men would find him attractive,and even then I find it hard to believe. sorry he was rather unattrctive
@DingoHunterDan Because I have eyes and I can see this man was attractive,but even more he seemed affectionate and loving and thats more attractive then just a face. And as for him being gay,thats just a stupid comment and doesn't change the way he looked
@MyREDTAIL That's extremely common, and basically mandatory in any given concert. And he most likely learned it from music, not by ear. Not a difficult piece to play or memorize.
A good pianist and entertainer! His interpretation of the "Moonlight", however, is totally deliberately tongue-in-cheek (ironic) - so all you critics miss the point!
I think only people who have spent years learning piano and mastering it can understand how talented and spectacular Liberace's performances actually were. Time and practice doesn't get you to that stage...it's pure talent
cazm94: I agree this guy was amazing,sure he might have been a bit 'wacky' or 'out there' but no denying he had talent-I'm only sorry I was very young when he died. i'm a huge fan of classical music
Many musicologists believe that Beethoven was inspired by this from W. A. Mozart's Don Giovanni's opera when the Commandatore is slowing dying after by stabbed by Don Giovanni's sword during their duel.
Whilst I am in general fond of Liberace the man, if not his music; this is too loud and too fast for me. The string accompaniment is dire. But I do applaud the courage to do something different, even if it's not to my taste.
Surely you don't think Moonlight Sonata comes from Resident Evil. You do know it was written by Beethoven, right? A long time ago, right? Please tell me you don't think it came from Resident Evil.
1212Wolfgang12.. Yes i agree that the dynamic markings are not what is SUGGESTED all dynamic markings are suggestions.. They all have a very broad spectrum.. How one performer plays the dynamics isnt going to be exactly the same to another..Yes the acompniment is heavy but however its does not over shadow the melody!!!
I think folks are forgetting that this is how Liberce decided to play it this time. I am sure he could pla it differently many other ways. This version is quite stunning
Straphmark, this interpretation is far from excellent, his "Adagio sostenuto" is far too quick. And as for control, the inner accompaniment is far too obtrusive, given that the movement is marked "sempre pianissimo". Raakim, thanks for the advice...
If we want to get technical about liberace's abilities..... as a pianist... excellent control over dynamic markings... excellent control over gradiation of tone..... excellent INTERPRETATION and could hold a audience... What more does any pianist need???
This is a very unmusical performance, typical of Liberace. I feel like vomiting when I read some of these posts which liken Liberace's abilities to those of truly wonderful pianists like Horowitz and Kempff. Liberace was a showman who could play the piano, Victor Borge was a pianist who could put on a show.
Liberace's charity contributions bear no relevance whatsoever to the fact that this is an unmusical performance. Beethoven would be rolling in his grave. Even if he had played this piece nicely, it would not merit praise. Alone, it is an extremely simple piece of music, it's true beauty is in context with the rest of the sonata, which Liberace couldn't play.
Beethoven was a man of Romanticism, and I doubt he would be as disgusted as you think he would have. If everyone thought like you there would be no music,no originality,it is the fact that it is imperfect which makes it human,if everything were meant to be so rigid than a man could easily be replaced by a computer,which could be 100% precise. Stop being a critic, the world has enough of them already,just enjoy the damn music for God sake
So, and if a piece is easy to play it cannot be beautiful? Schumanns Traeumerei is easy to play - not beautiful? C'mon, get down from your high horse exactwolfgang12past12
I'm not saying anything at all about the beauty of the composition, only the poor playing. However one cannot help but feel that when a piece IS easy, poor playing becomes less excusable.
Ok, I can agree on that. But, you know, I play the piece myself (I'm one of them who cannot play the other movements) and I enjoy the piece. I try to play it good, with feeling - not too much of it - and felt included in your critical comment.
Good on you for playing it, might I suggest that you listen to Claudio Arrau's recording, in the context of the rest of the Sonata (Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27[no.2]). Arrau succeeds in realizing Beethoven's instructions with far more sensitivity and style than Liberace. For that matter, if you've learnt the first movement of the sonata, I see no reason why you couldn't learn the second. Granted, the third is massive, and perhaps too ambitious, but please to have a look at the second
Classical music was never music for the masses. Bach and Teleman were underwritten by the massive wealth of the church. Royal families employed Mozart, Hyden, and Beethoven. In Wagner and Verdi's day, only the elite could afford a ticket. Nevertheless, Classical composers and musicians such as Franz List (Wagner's father in law ) and Vicolo Paginini were, like Liberace, showmen to the Nth degree.
I love Liberace...I really do. Wonderfully fun entertainer and pianist. But this is a pretty terrible performance of one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. It's completely lifeless and lacking in any of the expression due to it. He plays it like he's playing a scale. This is due to a pianist of any kind simply playing far, far too much piano - you lose the passion and turn into an automaton.
Liberace will never be matched because the classical pianists ONLY play classical music, but Liberace played all music and Brilliantly! Very Talanted Man, He had a special gift which can't be taught or learnt by anyone, he Loved the piano and that only comes from within! R.I.P. Sir.
This has always been one of my favorite songs by Lee. I had the pleasure of seeing perform when I was growing up. I will always remember that show very much.
Questo non è sicuramente il suo genere.. liberace è stato piu un entertainer negli usa che non un pianista classico, e il suo genere, come saprai, era il boogie woogie; la tua affermazione è fuori luogo.
e tu sei un coglione che trasforma in merda ogni considerazione che fa, senza conta che ti dimostra il solita italiota provincialotto senza un briciolo di culture, scrivendo in italiano in un video americano dove tutti scrivono inglese. Tu pensi che in un video spagnolo qualcuno si metta a scrivere in polacco? Sei così tipicamente italiano con la tua zoticoneria e la tua ignoranza che fai accapponare la pelle. Che dio perdoni quella provinciale di tua madre per averti messo al mondo.
Liberace was truely a gifted performer..! Moonlight Sonata Opus #27 is a work of art when performed properly. And of course, as always Liberace made sure of that...! He was sincerely one of the best...!
Thankyou for posting this. Let us never forget this wonderful musician. He was and will never be equalled. A wonderful and fantastic human being. Thankyou for your music Liberace.
wow this is really beautiful
Can't stop listening
dcba077 1 week ago
He is lost in his own world, there is nothing there but a man and his piano. He truly defined the art of playing the ebony and ivory instrument, he is one of the greatest pianists of all time and will be forever loved, so long as you love good music, Liberace rest in peace and may your memory live on in the harmony of your songs and let them forever hold a place in our hearts. My only wish is that your songs will reach future generations and show them the beauty of music, like you showed us.~<3
shellospatamon 1 month ago
The third movement of this sonata is an intense piece of music
avq5 1 month ago
awesssssooooomeeeeee....!!!!
livinchupin 1 month ago
He was amazing. An unbelievable talent. There will never be born his equal. He puts his entire heart and soul into this work of art. Just amazing.
zorgen123 2 months ago
So Michael Douglas is playing him in the upcoming biopic. Who do they have playing younger Liberace?
ragemanchoo82 3 months ago 4
Cool. He's playing the whole thing from memory. I don't see any sheet music.
samuelq1 3 months ago 2
@samuelq1 He always memorized the Tune.
Jessyleppert 3 months ago
@samuelq1 He could play by ear
janeyrevanescence12 2 months ago
@samuelq1 The sheet music is built in to his DNA.
chapa6sigma 1 month ago
ah man! the media brass forced him to cut out the second half of Beethoven's greatest piano masterpiece of all time?!? how dare they do that! the audacity!
but it was still beautiful. come hear me play it sometime ;)
DICACIO1 5 months ago
My favorite song of all time. He plays it absolutely perfectly. RIP Mr. Liberace.
TheInvincibleViolet 5 months ago 3
beautiful piece i just discovered Liberace and he's amazing! I'm 15 by the way, call my odd i i really dont mind.
DestructionBattery 5 months ago 3
@DestructionBattery Your not odd just because you are well aware of great talent. I saw him in concert and it was the best concert that I have ever been to.... RIP Lee
rotory2002 3 months ago
@rotory2002 Why thank you :)
DestructionBattery 3 months ago
God rest your beautiful musical soul L
452poppy 6 months ago
Moonlight in the Garden of Heaven.
TheCurtissLee 6 months ago
So beautiful!
womanofyah 7 months ago
Spooky sounding piece, but I learned piano off Moonlight Sonata.
randyclar747 7 months ago
¡¡que pianista x Dios!! Elvis imitaba su vestuario, pero Liberace fue un genio musical
JERICE56 8 months ago
Wonderful, I have always had a special place in my heart for Liberace. Truly, Lee was an exceptional entertainer and pianist. 5 STARS
DrJim29 8 months ago
Kempff - "What the hell how the fuck did you get that popular playing that PIECE?!!!"
Santosificationable 9 months ago
I wish the timer wasn't there.
scrapperdana 10 months ago
I like his music and I don't care that he was gay, but the man was a fucking nut job. He made his boy friend have plastic surgery so that he looked like Liberace. Yeah, Liberace had a fantasy of having sex with himself. Just thought I'd point out something interesting about him. Good music, good video, interesting dude.
kmanfitz 10 months ago
Of all the YouTube clips of Lee doing Moonlight Sonata, this one may very well come closest to the track on his album "My Most Requested". Utterly spell-binding!
TheCometHunter 10 months ago
Beethoben is beautiful
entiner1 10 months ago
haunting, yet beautiful. scary, yet relaxing. just plain wonderful. he really plays with his heart. ♥
flashsprint 10 months ago 9
He massages the piano. His playing is so peaceful. What a talent.
Aumberez 11 months ago
My mother just made me discover this man, and I'm already in love! So talented!
OshareHime 11 months ago
All you snobby tossers can p** off... Lee is better than any spoiled rich concert pianist you've seen. He didn't even practise, this guy could just play. He didn't need sheets like your crap conert players.
nchannon1984 11 months ago
@nchannon1984 lol as much as I like your sentiment, you obviously don't know much about concert musicians when you say that liberace didn't need sheets. I've never EVER seen a concert musician that actually needed sheets (though they might have them in front of them). By the way, I love liberace, but I'm actually not personally the biggest fan of this rendition of the Moonlight Sonata. I've always preferred it to be a little more delicate and less deliberate. but liberace's is still great.
weej267 10 months ago
@weej267 That's a fair point but i've always been under the belief that sheets will only ever keep you "out of the zone" - even just a glance at them could put the pianist back into "school" mode - the reason I commented on his sheet-less performance is because you can see right there, he's feeling the music from head-to-toe. He isn't even thinking about any notes or anything apart from playing the music. Lee can play ANY style - even Boogie Woogie to a great extent - the guy's a legend!
nchannon1984 10 months ago
My mom used to critisize his playing venomously, but we never missed his program. He knew that he was the focus of much critisizm. I remember one time he made a joke/comment about it. He said, with a tear in his eye, "I felt so bad that I cried all the way to the bank".
whiffenpoof1 11 months ago
@whiffenpoof1 He made the comment that he didn't give concerts, he gave shows. There's a difference and I'm sure he knew it.
auaiao9 7 months ago
He was the pianist of all times.
Bobemakk 11 months ago
According to the encyclopedia, during the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world. Enough said, he achieved a level of success that made others jealous. Its easy to say he butchered music, but obviously he took boring pieces and made them perfect. The music he created will go down in history, while the others boring music is long forgotten.
feelgoodaboutit 11 months ago
the greatest piano player in the world!!:)
msdoo13 1 year ago 3
I like the set, too. It's quite beautiful.
GoblinGirl 1 year ago
This man was/is a great musician and showman. Who really can hold a candle to him today? He could play classical along with jazz, blues, and rock and roll, and do it all with panache, great techinque, style, and soul.
GoblinGirl 1 year ago
Loved by many, hated by a few. He brought more music to people than ANY of the "intellectual elite" did. They hated him for having the popularity they didn't, and who loves the selfpromoted intellectual elite anyway?
Nordjyden9000 1 year ago
Just a wonderful showman. Great talent. Too bad that he didn't live long enough for HIV therapy drugs to come and save this amazing person who Wowed a ton of people. DennisM
endalltobeall 1 year ago 3
You "critics" need to get a life. People rip on Liberace's style because they don't get that he was an entertainer. The guy was a pianist who incorporated classical music with contemporary popular music, and thus took his own spin on the pieces as he saw fit. Sure, it probably isn't 100% accurate, but you really doubt that if he wanted to he was more than capable of playing more faithfully?
His career made more people become interested in classical music than any of you snobs ever will.
tkkcypher 1 year ago 3
There was a good part of this classical piece that was skipped for some reason. It is more less a finale stage of the piece. It is a combination of doubles of the same key on the left hand alternating rapidly, and it brings the listener to solemness. It is toward the end.
randyclar747 1 year ago
I never knew Liberace was into classical music. I didn't watch tv when I was growing up and Liberace was alive. My brother took control over the tv or my Dad took it away. Now I know. I learned this Moonlight Sonata when I was younger, it is a good learner piece for a beginner pianist. Nevertheless, Liberace did this well.
randyclar747 1 year ago
This puts you in a trance.
YouCanSayIt 1 year ago
During the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world.
CRAZYCRADER 1 year ago
he actually blinks at 1:53....wow..epic...well its glows in all perform
zhezhirekat 1 year ago
he actually blinks at 1:53....wow..epic...
zhezhirekat 1 year ago
I love this man! Liberace was amazing. A man who could put emotion to those cold ivory keys! I don't care what some people say, he could play! His showmanship is just to accentuate what he could make those keys do.
MEWisdom 1 year ago
Moonligh Sonata - often mentioned as the saddest piece of music ever written. Liberace makes it cry here. Brilliant.
RocktheStageNYC 1 year ago
awesome....
kukanonote 1 year ago
@33Mengele So? More people know his name than they know yours.
OztenP 1 year ago
phenomenal!
Callisto484 1 year ago
it doesn't even look like he is playing it is so effortless for him. wonderful
michaelkitselaar 1 year ago
@maddorox you're joking! Can you do better?
miltondemagnifique 1 year ago
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@maddorox They do say the only thing they couldn’t sell on the Antiques Roadshow was Liberaces piano stool, dirty bastard.
SNIFFERTHESECOND 1 year ago
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They do say the only thing they couldn’t sell on the Antiques Roadshow was Liberaces piano stool, dirty bastard.
SNIFFERTHESECOND 1 year ago
@maddorox Bad?!?!?!? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
madamerotten 1 year ago
@madamerotten - You think this is bad? Liberace became a national icon, the highest paid pianist ever, and was known around the world as "Mr. Showmanship". During the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world.
YouCanSayIt 1 year ago
@YouCanSayIt I think I was commenting about some troll claiming that his piano playing was bad, which it is obvioulsy not. In my opinion, he was among the greatest of all pianists, past and present.
madamerotten 1 year ago
"I know you've been out" "what no i haven't" "Paul my ceramic penguin in the study always faces due south"
brancool88 1 year ago 2
@maddorox How? Possibly the mosy physically gifted pianist there
has ever been. Natural, effortless and seamless when playing the piano.
His whole body was made to play a piano. It's a physical gift with Liberace more
than a musical gift.
GOATAli 1 year ago
GREAT performer! Thank you for sharing your talent and hard work with the world. Rest in peace, Lee.
babygrand3 1 year ago
a song to die too....
MrWaynejohn 1 year ago
@maddorox What the hell are you talking about?
RHCPlove1000 1 year ago 3
WONDERFUL
USoeyadi 1 year ago
Playing a whole classical piece is not going to entertain the world's population, its going to bore them!!!! Thats why he shortened all his classical repertoir.
jakethepeeeanist 1 year ago
Liberace is not one of my favorite pianists but he is one of my favorite entertainers!!!
aizendarwin 1 year ago 2
Moonlight sonata is my favorite piece of classical music,Liberace did an excellent job of performing it.!
DarthKreeg 1 year ago 3
magnificent
BEAUTIFULMusic73 1 year ago 2
Good performance, but the orchestration in the background was awful.
crumbar 1 year ago
@crumbar true!
arnihl 1 year ago
@crumbar Yeah, unfortunately that is true.
Denkyuu 1 year ago
everytime i hear this music i think of the scene in Misery when Kathy Bates takes the sledgehammer to James Cann's ankles. funny thing is, it was because of that movie i became a fan of Liberace.
cashpresley 1 year ago
he is so amazing i'm writing a research report for him for my English essay at my middle school and his life is so interesting like how he grew from a loner of a child to one of the most beloved man of the 50-80s
PaigeRMusic 1 year ago
@PaigeRMusic Yeah, he's FANTASTIC! Imagine if they made a full length Hollywood movie about his life like they did Ray Charles. I'd go see it!
therealraybaby 1 year ago
@therealraybaby i know i love him and when i gave my presentation on him people were so mean calling him pratically a freak since he was homosexual but i'm like who cares he was still an amazing person! and you shouldn't judge him when you didn't take time to know the real him! and also they are making a movie on him but not the kind i would have wanted them to make since it is about the "scott thorson affair" only
PaigeRMusic 1 year ago
@PaigeRMusic People can be so cruel :( He was not a freak at all. I agree he was amazing. I hate that they are making a movie based on that low life scum Scott Thorson
balto4 1 year ago 3
I always thought that this was one of the most hauntingly beautiful pieces ever written for the piano. It reminds me of a special restaurant where I used to take my late wife when we first met. I always requested it from the lone piano player there. From the standpoint of complexity, it's a relatively simple piece even for a beginning student, but it's always been beautiful and reflective.
profitleads 1 year ago
beautiful
isabeladelasbelas 1 year ago
Liberace was amazing. The guy could play anything from Beethoven to hillbilly music. How many can you say that about today?
darkknight91 1 year ago 3
Liberace will be loved and admired for all eternity as the greatest pianist who ever played... Van Cliburn couldn't hold his Candleabra
marvwaddy 1 year ago
i play the piano and want to be just like him!ive been playing for 6 yrs
clawzyjayjfuni 1 year ago
Say what you want about Liberace, I think he did the world a favor by being a showman on the piano and bringing in a new audience during rock n roll's early days. Much can be said about Lang Lang, people don't like his over the top playing but if it brings in interest all the better for the music and all classical musicians.
Artelron 1 year ago
Artelron: I love everything about Liberace,i love over the top/flamboyant people. I have been a lover of classical music since I was 8 and I'm in my 20's now. I think he really brought something to the music world
balto4 1 year ago
Great cover of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Such an inspiration.
Try2MakeMeOver 1 year ago
i think those things shining very bright on his jacket is actually real diamonds, he was famous for that
d7gh2u99wd 1 year ago
Irrespective of all his personal issues, the man had incredible talent
fun944 1 year ago 4
VERY GOOD!
SPACETRACER2020 2 years ago 3
This is one of the more soulful performances of this piece that I've heard. Brilliant.
Permaglo 2 years ago 3
beautful piece
graciegreyhound 2 years ago 3
Wow this is really beautiful-brings me tears to my eyes. I also think he looked extremely attractive in this clip. You are still loved Lee
balto4 2 years ago 47
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How can this queer be attractive? Your profile leads me to believe you are female,only gay men would find him attractive,and even then I find it hard to believe. sorry he was rather unattrctive
DingoHunterDan 2 years ago
@DingoHunterDan Because I have eyes and I can see this man was attractive,but even more he seemed affectionate and loving and thats more attractive then just a face. And as for him being gay,thats just a stupid comment and doesn't change the way he looked
balto4 2 years ago 22
@balto4 NOTICE ALL BY EAR & MEMORY NEVER SEE ANY SHEET MUSIC RESTING ON HIS PIANO'S WHEN EVER HE PLAYED, A REAL GENIUS RIP LEE
MyREDTAIL 1 year ago
@MyREDTAIL That's extremely common, and basically mandatory in any given concert. And he most likely learned it from music, not by ear. Not a difficult piece to play or memorize.
SealedSage 1 year ago
he is amazing
lilmisssparra 2 years ago
He used to play extremely fast, I believe it must be a pain for him to play slow, especially this song ----Moonlight Sonata.
Jajabing08 2 years ago
@Jajabing08 I disagree, he could play it all I don't think he's in pain at all here.
ReDRuM868 1 year ago
A good pianist and entertainer! His interpretation of the "Moonlight", however, is totally deliberately tongue-in-cheek (ironic) - so all you critics miss the point!
dinastein44 2 years ago
This is AMAZING,love this piece of music-and Liberace was one of the best entertainers of all time
balto4 2 years ago 6
I really like it :-)
Verca97Verca 2 years ago
sorry.. I don't like it....
ranita405 2 years ago
cool piano
vagfartha 2 years ago
Agreed. If he was supposed to be such a bad piano player, the day I could play so badly can't come soon enough.
Honestly, critics!!! Sheesh!
AngryOfMayfair 2 years ago
Saw him in the 70's. Amazing entertainer. Although he was flamboyant I never thought he was . Ornever wanted to believe it. He was good
RAY2424 2 years ago
I think only people who have spent years learning piano and mastering it can understand how talented and spectacular Liberace's performances actually were. Time and practice doesn't get you to that stage...it's pure talent
cazm94 2 years ago 5
cazm94: I agree this guy was amazing,sure he might have been a bit 'wacky' or 'out there' but no denying he had talent-I'm only sorry I was very young when he died. i'm a huge fan of classical music
balto4 2 years ago
Liberace practiced more piano before he was 20 than most people actually work in a lifetime.
ultimatejoeshmo 2 years ago 2
Many musicologists believe that Beethoven was inspired by this from W. A. Mozart's Don Giovanni's opera when the Commandatore is slowing dying after by stabbed by Don Giovanni's sword during their duel.
RSTAR2009 2 years ago 2
that's the point of being a performer... if you dont own the audience then you are just being selfish...
paggarcia 2 years ago
he had style and showmanship and he was witty but other then that he wasn't that great of a pianist. many better out there
SBZ925 2 years ago 2
If this is horrible, then I wish I could play horribly like Liberace.
joeluis98 2 years ago 5
Whilst I am in general fond of Liberace the man, if not his music; this is too loud and too fast for me. The string accompaniment is dire. But I do applaud the courage to do something different, even if it's not to my taste.
crx59crx 2 years ago 2
this song is from resident evil 1 when Jill is playing the piano to open that wall to get that gold shield or when rebecca is playing it
Kenshii100 2 years ago
Yeah I heard Liberace was a great Resident Evil player.
brainburger 2 years ago 32
@brainburger I don't get it, is it a reference? Please explain.
gaara2910 1 year ago
Surely you don't think Moonlight Sonata comes from Resident Evil. You do know it was written by Beethoven, right? A long time ago, right? Please tell me you don't think it came from Resident Evil.
narfanoid 2 years ago 2
Don't even say that.
It's from Beethoven's mind.
He wrote it over 150 years ago.
Chrisjuchniewicz 2 years ago
Yeah Beethoven wrote it for Resident Evil
kutuluu 2 years ago 3
LMAOOO
streetballa138x 2 years ago 2
NO NO was wrote it for Shadowman :)
leonidas3549 2 years ago
You're so full of crap XD
Herringish 2 years ago
if how this guy plays is crap, i want to be able to play piano like crap.
Angelica21600 2 years ago 4
I didn't mean Liberace! I commented a guys stupid comment on this video!
Herringish 2 years ago
1212Wolfgang12.. Yes i agree that the dynamic markings are not what is SUGGESTED all dynamic markings are suggestions.. They all have a very broad spectrum.. How one performer plays the dynamics isnt going to be exactly the same to another..Yes the acompniment is heavy but however its does not over shadow the melody!!!
STRAPHMARK 2 years ago
yes i agree the orchestra sounds horrid
andrew190495 2 years ago 2
I think folks are forgetting that this is how Liberce decided to play it this time. I am sure he could pla it differently many other ways. This version is quite stunning
GOATAli 2 years ago
Some people will always find something to bitch about! Let the man play.
operalover41 2 years ago 2
*Thinks* gawd dat timer sure is fuktard 1 star :P
Stevenup7004 2 years ago
Straphmark, this interpretation is far from excellent, his "Adagio sostenuto" is far too quick. And as for control, the inner accompaniment is far too obtrusive, given that the movement is marked "sempre pianissimo". Raakim, thanks for the advice...
1212wolfgang1212 2 years ago
I have to agree about the accompaniment being intrusive i believe this peice is better played as a solo rather than with an orchestra
JMGpiano9 2 years ago
If we want to get technical about liberace's abilities..... as a pianist... excellent control over dynamic markings... excellent control over gradiation of tone..... excellent INTERPRETATION and could hold a audience... What more does any pianist need???
STRAPHMARK 2 years ago 3
This is a very unmusical performance, typical of Liberace. I feel like vomiting when I read some of these posts which liken Liberace's abilities to those of truly wonderful pianists like Horowitz and Kempff. Liberace was a showman who could play the piano, Victor Borge was a pianist who could put on a show.
1212wolfgang1212 2 years ago
IF YOU COULD ONLY, LEARN TO PLAY AN 1/8 OF WHAT THIS MAN..... ACCOMPLISHED - WE CAN DEBATE!
IT TAKES TALENT , THIS MAN HAS DONE MORE FOR CHARITY THAN YOU WILL EVER COMPREHEND!
YOU MAY THINK YO ARE A CLASSICAL OFFICONADO BUT RETHINK IT...........
Ugliness, begets ugliness!
leonivich 2 years ago
Liberace's charity contributions bear no relevance whatsoever to the fact that this is an unmusical performance. Beethoven would be rolling in his grave. Even if he had played this piece nicely, it would not merit praise. Alone, it is an extremely simple piece of music, it's true beauty is in context with the rest of the sonata, which Liberace couldn't play.
1212wolfgang1212 2 years ago 3
Beethoven was a man of Romanticism, and I doubt he would be as disgusted as you think he would have. If everyone thought like you there would be no music,no originality,it is the fact that it is imperfect which makes it human,if everything were meant to be so rigid than a man could easily be replaced by a computer,which could be 100% precise. Stop being a critic, the world has enough of them already,just enjoy the damn music for God sake
Raakim322 2 years ago 7
So, and if a piece is easy to play it cannot be beautiful? Schumanns Traeumerei is easy to play - not beautiful? C'mon, get down from your high horse exactwolfgang12past12
tasteism 2 years ago
I'm not saying anything at all about the beauty of the composition, only the poor playing. However one cannot help but feel that when a piece IS easy, poor playing becomes less excusable.
1212wolfgang1212 2 years ago
Liberace was without doubt......a prodigy!
MattDSmith1 2 years ago
LOL! Certanly not. This if very tasteless. But it's hilarious! :D:D:D
Pianisteny2k 2 years ago 2
Ok, I can agree on that. But, you know, I play the piece myself (I'm one of them who cannot play the other movements) and I enjoy the piece. I try to play it good, with feeling - not too much of it - and felt included in your critical comment.
tasteism 2 years ago
Good on you for playing it, might I suggest that you listen to Claudio Arrau's recording, in the context of the rest of the Sonata (Sonata no.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27[no.2]). Arrau succeeds in realizing Beethoven's instructions with far more sensitivity and style than Liberace. For that matter, if you've learnt the first movement of the sonata, I see no reason why you couldn't learn the second. Granted, the third is massive, and perhaps too ambitious, but please to have a look at the second
1212wolfgang1212 2 years ago
Classical music was never music for the masses. Bach and Teleman were underwritten by the massive wealth of the church. Royal families employed Mozart, Hyden, and Beethoven. In Wagner and Verdi's day, only the elite could afford a ticket. Nevertheless, Classical composers and musicians such as Franz List (Wagner's father in law ) and Vicolo Paginini were, like Liberace, showmen to the Nth degree.
DickAllen4HOF 2 years ago
wow, that was really beautiful.
OceanLove963 2 years ago 2
I love Liberace...I really do. Wonderfully fun entertainer and pianist. But this is a pretty terrible performance of one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. It's completely lifeless and lacking in any of the expression due to it. He plays it like he's playing a scale. This is due to a pianist of any kind simply playing far, far too much piano - you lose the passion and turn into an automaton.
iamlondon 2 years ago 2
this is the best performance of Moonlight you can find!
SUPERMANfromMETROPOL 2 years ago
Kempff's performance is better i think, but i disagree with london as well, this is far from a terrible performance.
KannabisChris 2 years ago
top 3, the very best moonlighters:
gold: Liberace
silver: Horowitz
bronze: Kempff
SUPERMANfromMETROPOL 2 years ago
I disagree again lol reverse them you have my choice.
KannabisChris 2 years ago
so we agree who is number 2!
SUPERMANfromMETROPOL 2 years ago
Yes, yes we do lol
KannabisChris 2 years ago
Try listening to Maksum Mrvici - ''Child in Paradise'' He's Brilliant - Composers long gone, would appreciate his renditions of their work
leonivich 2 years ago
1 rock4all20>dream of reality
2 Kaldoreii>PVE - Twisted v. Eredar Twins (Rogue/Melee PoV)
3 Maksim Mrvica - Child in paradise Cofusion mix
4 Maksim Mrvica - Child in Paradise
5 Maksim Mrvica - Child in Paradise (Played by Arvin)
in that order....
i agree 1000%
this is quite something
SUPERMANfromMETROPOL 2 years ago
IT IS THE intros that are so massively great.
SUPERMANfromMETROPOL 2 years ago
there was never a recording of beethoven...
thevuutrain 2 years ago
too bad beethoven composed this piece
aahah prety ignorant if u ask me
and i wouln't even say that this peformance was that good
could be the recording but still dosn't sound pleasant tomy ears
bboymango 2 years ago
Beautiful, impressive...
block1538 2 years ago 2
C'est effrayant!!!
entrerriano73 2 years ago
God Bless you Talented Kind person
the one and only Liberace His music
will live on forever!!!
Thanks for posting
Liberace has a special gift from the
Almighty God and it was so beautiful
that he shared his music of happiness
to all
chuchu7s 2 years ago
If you will take the time to look in the Dictionary....I submit you'll find the following : " Elegance" ....see Liberace...!
JerrysTube 2 years ago
Liberace will never be matched because the classical pianists ONLY play classical music, but Liberace played all music and Brilliantly! Very Talanted Man, He had a special gift which can't be taught or learnt by anyone, he Loved the piano and that only comes from within! R.I.P. Sir.
007vauxhall 3 years ago
This has always been one of my favorite songs by Lee. I had the pleasure of seeing perform when I was growing up. I will always remember that show very much.
Whiskers711 3 years ago
Quest'uomo ha trasformato in MERDA tutto ciò che ha suonato. Che dio lo perdoni R.I.P.
vaslav4ever 3 years ago 2
Questo non è sicuramente il suo genere.. liberace è stato piu un entertainer negli usa che non un pianista classico, e il suo genere, come saprai, era il boogie woogie; la tua affermazione è fuori luogo.
mrsubwdj 3 years ago
sono d'accordo con mrsubwdj ... più dell'esecuzione trovo tremendo l'arrangiamento di archi... mammamia.
Dio perdoni chi lascia andare sentenze e giudizi!
themaeglin 3 years ago 5
e tu sei un coglione che trasforma in merda ogni considerazione che fa, senza conta che ti dimostra il solita italiota provincialotto senza un briciolo di culture, scrivendo in italiano in un video americano dove tutti scrivono inglese. Tu pensi che in un video spagnolo qualcuno si metta a scrivere in polacco? Sei così tipicamente italiano con la tua zoticoneria e la tua ignoranza che fai accapponare la pelle. Che dio perdoni quella provinciale di tua madre per averti messo al mondo.
OvoPiano 2 years ago
Liberace was truely a gifted performer..! Moonlight Sonata Opus #27 is a work of art when performed properly. And of course, as always Liberace made sure of that...! He was sincerely one of the best...!
JerrysTube 3 years ago
Thankyou for posting this. Let us never forget this wonderful musician. He was and will never be equalled. A wonderful and fantastic human being. Thankyou for your music Liberace.
starquant 3 years ago
No pianist will ever match his talent! Not one!!
sibionic 3 years ago
u cant compare libreace with horowitz or kissin lol if u do, ur really wrong...
Chopinco 3 years ago
yes thank god somebody has some sense, not even worth comparing, 'SIBIONIC' you need to watch horowitz or richter!!
scottyschumann18 2 years ago
or borge
he's friggin hilarious and yet still produces some of the amazing music i've ever heard
blah3939393 2 years ago
indeed but in this case Victor Borge is a classical music pianist who decided to do some comedy =) and i like it so much haha
Chopinco 2 years ago
The comedy was the hook to get people to the show but when he got serious, he was a superb pianist. I loved his music.
sueintexas 2 years ago 2
What's with the timecode?
doublejax 3 years ago
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Luckily Beethoven is deaf and even better ... dead ... the old faggot as well RIP.
viszlamoi 3 years ago