Verdi Liszt La Danza Sacra Duetto Finale Aida Lisitsa

[panyawut2533]

I love the piano sounds

[dextoor]

Damn Impressive... And so is the piano playing... ;0

[herol64700]

this my current #1 best favorite Val performance. it demonstrates the breadth of her talents.

[cmoreno12345]

I like the synopsis! That's a cool story that, well...I did NOT know. :)

[dlgrim0621]

is really funny. When I was a kid We used salmon eggs for fish bait,to catch fish with.Here is Your caviar(fish bait),I hope You enjoy it for lunch or whatever.Salmon eggs was very cheep!Thats "So Nice"(song by Diana krall. "Quiet Nights" by Diana Krall Is really nice,beautyful scenery.This is Her DVD "Live In Rio".Just found her last year.Nifty find.Gloria Estefan is a nifty person.Had to come from a bad buss wreck."Hotel National"Is fast & funny.R.U. ready to hoochie-coochie.Love&PrayerDan

[dlgrim0621]

tinued. I got to count the measures for the wind section.I thought it was fun so the conductor let Me take care of it.You know,count like 235 measures rest then come in just after the Clarints played such.The audience enjoyed it to.They didn't miss the funny spots because of the language.The Met in NY city.Do they go just for show?Oh well,they don't know what they are missing.I don't think I told You about caviar.The Sturgens are having problems with eggs,so the make it out of Salmon eggs. That

[dlgrim0621]

Hi! I hope everything is going better for You.My mind was somewhere else.So many parts sounded like a mountain stream where it tirckles down to a rapid then trickles down again.Beautyfuly played.Thanks for the music.Opera,nuts! Why? I played the French horn in college.I had so much fun playing an opera in the pit of course.The opera had a very funny man( who liked to joke around) as the lead tenor.He liked to sit down and tell what was going on.If it wasn,t just right he'd make something up.con.

[Hobott]

You're in love with theatre, opera and literature, I guess, not only with music.

[mamakokonao]

Are you a disciple of Liszt?

Your performance is full of a soul.

[frozenmusicmaker]

Simply magical!

[sunamiassault]

sounds pretty flashy and virtuosic to me (yet so musical).

[Trucdelu]

Wonderful, magic :)

[herol64700]

this has moved up into my top 3 videos. what delicacy, what bombast ! i can only imagine what the audiophiles will say when they hear the analog LP . thank you for putting this up on youtube

[mercuryila87]

Wonderful as always!

[1goodnessme]

She forgets one bar at 8:35 !!!!!

[wfaris2003]

I liked the dancing hands

[wfaris2003]

I hope u all the best my dear..

[gavinklavier]

It's nice! Wish I could watch your concerts. this one's very beautifully played!

[nunugroaz]

Little advice : Go and watch/listen to Verdi's Opera first ;)

[1waka1waka1]

Why does this beautiful lady play everything so fast? Didn't she understand yet that music is not necessarly how fast she moves her light fingers? That's so sad!

[Kaggypants]

What a beautiful description of this story told by the piece.

[Reddigitalmusic]

So classy... your smooth skill, the cinematography, the Bosendorfer :)

[donnellobrien]

Just beautiful - again. Even your hands lifted in silence.  Thank you for sharing your immense talent.

[exleff]

@ValentinaLisitsa I was never really a fanatic for classical music, but I have recently become one in a way! :) I vaguely remember you answering an interview question describing the feeling of the piano interacting with an orchestra. You said the energies flowing together is electrifying, and I agree fully! Every time I listen to a piece, whether solo or full orchestra, my heart races and I feel "Electrified!" Does your heart race when you play?

[janherm]

In 'Musicophilia (Tales of Music and the Brain)', Sachs claims that music has access to much more brain parts than language has. So, what do you think about the importance of the relation of this music to its underlying Egyptian 'soap story'. Is (knowing) the story really important for listening and/or playing ? Do you imagine or even 'tell' the story while playing?

[kidodragon]

This is beyond beautiful.... Thank you very much for your fantastic descriptions!!! They're always so insightful, personal and interesting. I hope to one day be half the pianist you are.

[moruku88]

This is wonderful! Haven't heard this piece before. I might come see you in Royal Albert Hall this summer if I manage to save up enough money for the plane ticket! Will you be playing on this Bösendorfer? It's a beautiful instrument. And if you ever are up to the task, I'd love to hear your take on Beethoven's Pathétique. So far I think Barenboim's Pathétique is my favourite. He, like you, and Boris Berezovsky are among my favourite pianists. And Pathétique one of my favourite piano pieces.. :)

[SparhawkGT]

*Swoon* Play more. :) 

[joanngelic]

I'd pay good money to watch her play :3

[stefanopunkskate]

When I subscribed to you two days ago I knew I would have an amazing 2012.... your playing just takes me away :)

[TheBarbaciano]

Valentina, please please please come to Barcelona! And if you can play something (doesn't mind what, Partitas Tocatas, Wohltemperierte, Goldberg, ANYTHING) of Bach I will love you even more than I love you already.

BTW, Liszt arrangements of Rigoletto played on a Bosendorfer by Lisitsa? GOD REALLY EXISTS!!!

[josephakins]

What is the action feel like on this piano?

[sunburntandblonde]

Liszt proving that he doesn't have to show off, that he can be subtle and enganging.

Valentina your playing is a delight, you give these works new lives, thank you.

[somnynightin78]

If this is truly one of Liszt's later works, I think I like this era of his music than the earlier, showier pieces.

[chutdigadut]

nothing virtuoso..... ok. yeah. um.

[NilsonOlivNeto]

Bravo!

[johnpkling]

An idle thought. Some concert halls have wonderful architecture. Often the performers are well dressed. Why is it so rare to see a performance with an art case? Some Bosendorfers have wonderful traditional cases. Would it not be good business to from time to time to put these instruments before the public?

[MrWerenfeldt]

I have a hard time not listening to your playing...

[phantomfn8]

It is incredible how Liszt wrote for the bass notes at 5:05 have their overtones still sustained by the light portion. These overtones stay sustained until 5:49. To have overtones (especially from a Bosendorfer) sustained that long is pure talent of composition and by the performer! Bravo!!

[ProjectVini]

Question:

Do you have actually all the notes in your mind?

I`ve been trying to Mental Play recently and I gotta say its pretty intelectual activity...

[DeliciousPouncing]

is a delicious pouncing, thanks for share the beautiful

~^^~

[XyelleX]

Hey Valentina, what do you think of Hamelin's music??

i really like his Etude No.5 'Toccata Grottesca'.

[Ps0fos]

I wonder how it feels to play so good on such a good Bosendorfer!

[Archimond789]

Please choose to play Paraphrase Handel sarabanda :) I´m sure that your interpretation will be the best :) Your fan from Slovakia :D

[PortgasD88rach]

Dear Valentina, the sound You create in this interpretation is heavenly!!! Thank You for the emotions!!!:-)

[Defonthana]

Wow...when you play...it looks so easy and light and just so much fun...but in fact... it isn't...well playing maybe is FUN...but not as light and EASY as it seems! really really cool...

[Kyuzo150]

Great music and pianist. Obrigado Valentina

[soulechene]

Il y a quelque chose de superlatif dans cette interprétation sans égal. On est pris par cette transposition de Verdi par Liszt. Le piano est particulièrement somptueux et la valse des doigts de Valentina sur le clavier prend un caractère envoutant inégalable. Je n'ai jamais rien vu de mieux joué ni mieux filmé. Bravo, pour ma part, je suis insatiable de tels chef-d'oeuvre.

[Nuighon]

THIS is actually just the very best part of the 0.1 valuable percent of Youtube and subscribing to you was the best thing, I ever did out there in the internet. Thank you, for making this possible through all your reliably fascinating performances.

[371gaston]

Great pianist beautiful

[ustarac]

Buon Anno, Valentina.

Umberto

[thelastmusician]

Beautiful!! I never listened to this piece before... but I think I'll start to order this score as soon as possible!

Thank you Valentina for playing this. At 09:08 I really loved your "trillo".

[ChrisRMaldonado]

Valentina I'm playign this piece in my junior recital this spring (I heard a recording of you playing it years ago and I had to learn it). I have only found scores online so far!! WHERE CAN I GET A PRINTED COPY???????? Thank You,

-Chris Maldoando

[lamprinila]

lovely, have a great new year, with a lot of success!!!

[mariecantate]

Good day

I am watching at each of yours videos and ask me what is the best way to memorise notes and how you acceed to such a technic of pulling and extension movements of your fingers ;when do you play in France?

thanks

[Giarola77]

Valentina: You had been playing at "Sala Sâo Paulo" in Sâo Paulo Brazil, some years ago aside Hilary Hahn. What is your frankly opinion concerning the Acoustic of the hall? (If you can remember it after so many others). Kisses

[herol64700]

holy moly !!! what a GREAT work. has to be the most unusual piece you've uploaded . you have no idea of what gifts these uploads are to me. thank y7ou

[rlechevalier2002]

I so love your playing. And I've learned so much watching you play and reading your comments.

[TheHankster30]

Liszt lived the life off an absolute rock star! Has anyone had a more glamorous musical career? Paderewski, I guess. Someone asked Liszt why he never wrote a book about his life, and he replied "it was enough to have lived it." How cool is that?

[cristianfcao]

Didn't know this piano piece. You are absolutely right about it sounding very impressionistic!

[LanFeaR86]

lol at the synopsis. Soap opera, indeed :P

Wonderfully played. Will you be playing anywhere in Asia this year? :)

[djvandrake]

Wonderful! The fluidity of your techniche is astounding. I'm amazed at your skill. Thank you for these videos. :)

[bobbyvanmali]

You have a delightful technique to playing. You make Liszt proud... and Chopin. I love your etudes :) Liszt would have wanted a daughter like you!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@bobbyvanmali Instead he got awful Cosima Wagner for a daughter , what a witch :-)

[TheHankster30]

@ValentinaLisitsa Yeah, she was definitely her mother's daughter. Marie D'Agoult was a scheming, no-account biaatch!

[MusicStudyMan]

@ValentinaLisitsa maybe we should name an Asteroid after you.. "Valentina 88"?

[MusicStudyMan]

@MusicStudyMan in case that sounds a bit weird I was referring to the fact that Cosima has an Asteroid named after her...

[1963mathetes]

@MusicStudyMan Actually, "Valentina 97" would be more apropos. =)

[MabilisTV]

You are so talented! Thank you for sharing your music with us!

[BizarroEntertainment]

You should play Rach's Prelude. And Fantasie Impromptu by Chopin. :)

[josefzachariassen]

i love your playing lisa!!!

[TELarson58]

Valentina: Did Liszt do an arrangement of Rigoletto? I really enjoyed this and just can't get enough of your playing.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@TELarson58 Yes , he did - and it is lovely. Next year is Verdi year :-)

[bb0ysmiley]

@ValentinaLisitsa Have you played the Rigoletto paraphrase? =)

It sure is lovely, but if you have, what do you feel is the more timeconsuming of it and the Aida paraphrase? =)

For Verdiyear I want to finish the Ernani paraphrase and learn Aida.

[zachattack19942]

Lol some parts/sounds reminded me of "Scarbo" at some parts. Lol.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@zachattack19942 Correct!



[zachattack19942]

@ValentinaLisitsa I'm sure I have asked before, but how long did it take you to learn Liszt's "El Contrabandista"? Oh and "Totentanz"? Lol sorry.

[guillermoarambula]

Lisitsa, i´d like to listen you playing Prokofiev Toccata in D minor (Op.11) o Ravel Toccata aus Le tombeau de Couperin. Have you considered them for your next concerts ?

[emperorkitten]

Beautiful playing. Liszt is so fascinating. When Liszt invited Edvard Grieg to meet him, Liszt sight read the A Minor Concerto (playing too fast at first) and commented throughout as he played. He also played Grieg's sonta for violin and piano, but playing both parts at once on the piano.

[theCrpldOrphnPrjct]

Liszt + Lisitsa = perfection

[miguelmouta]

Long Live the Death !

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@miguelmouta Death can be beautiful , but mostly in opera ;-)

[miguelmouta]

@ValentinaLisitsa At the end, generally.

[peterbringenhoes]

The very old Liszt also wrote the two lugubres gondolas, modern

and intensely melancholic music.

Didnt know this piece, thanks!

[FranKiisko]

Hi Valentina! There is a recording years ago in which you are playing this piece. In that session you recorded also the "Carmen fantasie" from Horowitz.

Will you do a new High Quality version in your Bossy of this piece? Maybe you'll try with "Danse Macabre (Horowitz arrangement)"? Thank you very much! :D

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@FranKiisko I don"t think playing Horowitz transcritions is terribly legal :- They are his songs and I think they are copyrighted and he didn't intend them to be played by others

[lucerfarul]

It sounds like a beautiful dream!

[MapkAK]

Wow, this is so beautiful!

Thank you so much!

[LousyPianist]

Have you ever considered playing Reminiscences de Robert Le Diable? It's a really marvellous piece that soothes you perfectly. :)

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@LousyPianist I did it actually. At liszt festival at Bard College ears ago. it is a bit too silly in its exuberance of octaves

[LousyPianist]

@ValentinaLisitsa that's what I like about it! I wish I'd been there to hear you perform it...

[Slitherroom]

Wow, you are amaaazing! How many hours do you practice every day?

[FranKiisko]

@Slitherroom I'd like Valentina to answer this question :)

[joost5]

Valentina, this is just fantastic. I look forward to every video and often replay your archived performances. You make it look so effortless. I want to give you the money in my wallet it's so good.

[Minanto91]

Even your child has started playing the piano? is as good as the mother? Why do not you and Alexei play together anymore?

[belegSJ]

@Minanto91 I agree, I'd like to see Alexei and Valentina performing more duets as well. :-)

[MsImafuckingbeast]

This is amazing :D

[chrisclr]

Dear valentina, what piece has been the most hardest for you to learn?

[MrSNaddaf]

Vaentina i love you so much!!! you are my all time favorite pianist!!!!!! and if there is someone who might be better than liszt it is only you!!!!!!! <3

[BeBopDeluxe85]

Valentina , Please come to Winnipeg Manitoba. You are amazing.

Your devoted fan, Ryan.

[andreea140794]

This is definitely going on my MP3 ! Your my favorite pianist of all time .

[GermanoDeppe]

Wonderful!!! You and the Bösendorfer sounding great as always!!!

[MsCuteLittlePrincess]

@ValentinaLisitsa

Valentina, any plans on coming to Iceland?

You are my role model as a pianist and I would love to see you performing in Harpa!

[oreolkm]

Are you composing smthng?

[612curtis]

Valentina, will you be preforming Totentanz during the concert on the 19th? I hope you are because I would love to hear it! :D By the way epic performance!!!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@612curtis I think it is safe to say i will. Even if put all my pieces on YT for voting , I think Totentanz will make it into the program.

[Musorgsky]

Brava!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@Musorgsky This one, Khovanschina and Tsar's Bride - my 3 all-time favorites :)

[Musorgsky]

@ValentinaLisitsa

=) My favorites are Boris Godunov, Madame Butterfly and Pelleas et Melisande. And thank you, Valentina, for the music. You are a great musician.

[burnhardship]

@ValentinaLisitsa Could you possibly map out every area you've ever been just so I know exactly what ground to worship?

[AlgarismosGomes]

@burnhardship If you're planning something like that, maybe Kiev (Ukraine) is a good place to start it. Good luck.

[drearycellardoor]

The music really brings the story to life!

[godslayerbrian]

LISA LISA!!! please reply to this you will make me sooooo happy :D im your biggest fan!! and your super awesome sauce!! <3

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@godslayerbrian :-) Ok, I am replying :-0 lol

[godslayerbrian]

@ValentinaLisitsa awwwwww lisa your the best!! :D <3 ok but now you have to marry me :P

[belegSJ]

This is pure magic.

This has always been my absolute favorite in all of Liszt's music - maybe even in the entire piano literature! Why - I cannot tell. Some time ago I saw an old performance of this piece by you - the clip is on YT. I've been hoping you to upload a newer (and better in terms of quality) version since then. :-) So thank you very very much!

Liszt is amazing. Gosh.

[KegPatcha]

Hello Valentina. You are my favourite pianist. Any plans for coming to Mexico City?

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@KegPatcha July - with Mineria , Saint-Saens #2

[godslayerbrian]

Lisa your the best!

[djentlekat]

WIN!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry EPIC WIN!!!!!!!

[ValentinaLisitsa]

Is that your FIRST favorite pianist ? lol :-)

[rulezz264]

@ValentinaLisitsa Ever taught about playing Chopin's fantasie impromptu? Haven't seen a video of that yet.

[ValentinaLisitsa]

@rulezz264 Noooo waaaaay. There are like 400 of them on YT. None is mine :-)

[rulezz264]

@ValentinaLisitsa I mean of you playing it ;), you've inspired me to start studying a lot of other pieces, just curious about the Impromptu because, judging you by your other videos, you'd play it really well and it's a piece I've finished studying a few months ago.

[rulezz264]

@ValentinaLisitsa btw ti horosho igrajesh :P

[iPlayPiiano]

@ValentinaLisitsa Definately!!

[iPlayPiiano]

@ValentinaLisitsa Here he is. He transcribed this piece especially for the Bösendofer Imperial. His favorite grand piano also. ;)

/watch?v=mGxdyM8C-1M

[ancientsolar]

@ValentinaLisitsa Would you consider playing Chopin eEtude 25 11 at the Concert :)

[iPlayPiiano]

Beautiful. You are my second favorite pianist! Have you ever heard of a Dutch pianist called Wibi Soerjadi?