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  • She is wonderful!! This peace is foten played but not many times understood!

  • Wonderful, an interpreter exepcional. Thank you

  • Simple and beautiful!

  • Many people can play this song but very few people can understand this song and bring to life what Beethoven envisioned when he composed this master piece.

  • It probably jerk off perfectly.

    This video has good masturbate!

  • i dont get the laught .. ignorant audiance

  • I usually listening to Hip Hop. How the hell did i came here? But, I have to say that sounds good too.

  • what a flower

  • thumbs up if you didn't hear a thing, but are going to insist you did!

  • That's really cute, that alternating hand technique she uses in the initial motif.

  • Gutsy - difficult to play and simple piece with new energy and spontaneity - bravo!

  • Amazing, amazing, amazing !!!

  • LOL how many encores did you get Ms. Lisitsa?

    I apologize on the Koreans behalf. I too am a Korean, and I must admit, we are very frugal creatures. If we paid money for a performance, we want the duration to exceed what we paid.

    And I apologize for the laugh at the start. Every Korean played some sort of piano in their youth, and Fur Elise is a commonly played piece in every music school.

    Sincerely,

    A Korean, and your fan.

    :D

  • y did they all laugh when she started playing?

  • @PLCGirl101 i think that was , because the other songs she played, were extrem hard and difficult . For examplel Rachmaninoff Prelude in g minor op 23 #5 or Paganini - Liszt La Campanella .

  • @PLCGirl101 they were expecting something sound and fast, like she would show off her skills... like moonlight sonata 3rd movement ;P Instead she played fur elise even slower than normal.

  • @PLCGirl101 because everyone can play the song

  • @PLCGirl101 because it's a real easy song ; basically nothing compared to her skills

  • @PLCGirl101 Yes that was a bit bizarre. Perhaps because it is so well known and they were expecting something less heard perhaps?

  • @PLCGirl101 THIS IS WHY THEY LAUGHED: From what my professor told me, she came out to do an encore ... she was suppose to do some complicated piece, but she chose this. The audience was just laughing at that. hope I kinda explained it....

  • ¿Por que la gente se reí al principio? Me parece tan despreciativo para ser un obra de tan simple belleza y de hermosa interpretación. El Piano no se trata de quién toca más rápido o toca obras más complicadas, sino se trata de tocar lo que uno ama y transmitir lo que se siente al público...el amor por la música.

  • @Guillermoor porque las obras que estaba tocando antes eran mas dificiles, entonces las personas se rien porque esto es considerado mas facil.

  • C'est d'une magnifisance inégalée, c'est dingue cette manière de toucher les touche c'est vraiment la perfection et très sentimentale, on ressent bien le caractère de la chanson que Beethowen à voulu exprimer! bravo :')

  • She plays it so soft and controlled. It sounds like she is using left pedal, but I doubt it. So controlled..

  • Upper left corner, Bobby Lee!

  • i love it

  • Musicality and artistry is often more demonstrated when playing easy pieces rather than with technically demanding ones which often just focuses on skill and accuracy rather than on the beauty of the composition. Bravo Valentina!!!

  • замечательный !

  • Why did everyone laugh at the beginning ???????

  • @yoyoandbow Because its quite an easy song that nearly everyone who knows the basics of piano can play. No one expected it to be played by someone as good as her.

  • @witwanggibon- so that is it. And u r right. i am a beginner of beginners as far as piano is concerned and i can also play fur elise perfectly.

  • @yoyoandbow because her previous encores were extremely difficult

  • she plays it too softly otherwise it is good

  • hey valentina can you stop everything your doing right now and teach me how to play piano?

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  • i love the song and beethoven if i spelled that right :P

  • ???why are everyone laughing

  • @classic45612 Because Für Elise is considered a fairly easy piece that most classical pianists learn at a very young age.

    I guess they find the context amusing ;)

  • Those are some seriously developed forearms.

  • she probably learned this when she was 1

  • I first came across this melody played on the web by Letitsa some years back, before she became so well known. Back then all I could hear was the music only as had no picture to see, so all I could admire was her beutifull playing. I'll try to make it to Albert Hall...

  • vaya tia!!! menudos musculos tiene..es buena...porque le gusta lo que hace y asi lo trasmite aparte de las horas que mete....

  • The laugh of the audience was priceless, but I suspect she knew exactly what she was doing, playing this piece, and playing it so incredibly well.

  • I wish I could play piano ):

  • I remember learning this tune in fifth grade... good times :)

  • no te duermas 

  • chino despierta

  • Why people are laughing in the beginning? About 0:24 or something.

    For Elise is a wonderful piece, and I love how you played it.

  • @himeismsama I suspect they laughed because it's a ridiculously over-played piece. A cliché. I, however, think she did a magnificent job expressing the feelings behind the piece. Well done.

  • @royohz I think she did splendid. So what if it's over-played? People still love it, and it only proves what a genius piece it is.

    Great job, especially with the 2nd and 3rd part.

  • @himeismsama See her other performances in the same show !!!

    La campanella...

    she was playong the most difficult pieces ever , and now she's doing a simple classical.

    that's why the crowd was laughing they didn't expect such an "easy" piece

  • @mohtaa I saw it.

    It's easy, but it's also the most beautiful piece I've ever heard and I love it the most. And, well, I'd like to see the crowd trying to play For Elise. Then I would be more than delighted to watch and, probably, laugh.

  • @mohtaa  There is no such thing as an "easy" piece if it is played well. The most beautiful music is sometimes a simple melody. The music must be brought to life by the artist and that is where the talent lies. The genius is always the composer brought to life by the talented artist.

  • Very much looking forward to seeing you perform live in Mexico City this July!

  • in my opinion, she truly captures the deep emotions of love and lust that beethoven introduced to this piece, not many could do the same, many cannot even have such mastery techniqque for such a simple piece. and yet again, valentina managed to do it all

  • even Beethoven there are 399 peoples who does not like him !, it should be some justin biber fans 'dead'

  • @TheBigDoudi nobody will thumbs up your comment if its about justin bieber

  • haha looks like piano feels like a cushion to her XD

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  • Wonderful news on the June 19th, 2012 debut at Royal Albert Hall, wonderful indeed!!! Thank you for your beautiful dedication to music.

  • she looks like smeagol with the ring

  • That piano is probably worth more than me, and I would trade my soul to be able to play on it once...

  • My Mother plays this with such passion... Elise must be such a special woman for a man to have composed such a song and for so many to love it...

    I shall never tire of enjoying such passion... it is truly beautiful.

  • I want to marry her!!

  • booooring everyone has heard this a million times before in countless remix, 8bit, guitar whatever, tbh its a good piece ofc, but i cant really listen to this in all seriousness without being bored, is it really just me?

  • she plays it so softly like a feather beautiful!

    

  • June 19th 2012?

  • @MrMAZTERbater yes fortunately... so she´ll have time to improve on her body language before this becomes public... OMG

  • @Spasterix Body language doesn't matter in music... She does not control her body language because she is so concentrated on what she is playing. Who cares about body language if the result of it is such a beautiful interpretation? She is one of the best musicians that ever lived. Thank you Valentina!

  • Inteligente e longe do lugar comum, sem usar pirotecnias inuteis. Apenas o que a peça é. Ponto pra alemoa.

  • @lansanova concordo contigo, só nao entendi o motivo dos risos ao começar a execuçao...

  • She's very intelligent when it comes to marketing issues. Sadly!

  • No se rieron; se alegraron, y no pudieron reprimir su gozo ante la esperada magistral ejecución de una obra tan conocida y apreciada.

  • That is the first time Fur Elise has ever pulled a tear... The most difficult pieces are sometimes the "easiest" Her control is awe inspiring. :)

  • Thumbs up if you wanna get this to 19 million views and take back the charts from the teenage pop-tarts!!!

  • I did forget how beautifull music can be. Last years I only listen to other music like Evanescencs, Skillet, and so on, and came here by exident, but listen all night to your music. I wondered how easy it is to get some rest in my life, this gave me that. Beautifull is an understatement and it isn't enough to tell you how I realy enjoyed listen to your music. Thank you for gaving me that feeling I had once back.

  • Such elegance, such beauty, such performance. She can gently touch piano or angryly beaten him and both time she is just awesome.

  • technisch toll (siehe rachmaninoff, chopin), mir fehlt bei den überleitungen (ausser nach der chromatischen tonleiter) das "anzeigen" des "wiederbeginns" grundmelodie, musikalisch liegt bei ihr sicher noch was drin, aber das kommt "mit den jahren" ;-)

  • amazing, but nowadays there no person on earth being able to compose such an "easy" and yet so beautiful melody.

    thx forever "old masters". thx valentina for showing us.

  • @TheHyenaKing not easy, not by a long shot.

    if you do your homework, the records of these composers was insane, and often took years for one piece as this.

  • @TheHyenaKing thx for not bothering put put four extra letters to spell "thanks."

  • @TheHyenaKing don't be so dramatic

  • @TheHyenaKing I don't think we CAN'T compose such beautiful, "easy" melody. We can, but the world wont apreciate anymore this kind. This is classic, perfect, but if nowadays somebody compose such beautiful melodys being news nobody like them.

  • @TheHyenaKing its not easy :P the first part is but the rest is not..

  • @darkj3am if you treat a piece as easy, you will be unable to play it good.

  • untrue,with all due respect listen to my composition..I was inspired by mozart's Amadeus death scene...The passing by Clayton Jackson..pls have a listen,beauty is hidden these days !! You must seek the light.

    watch?v=7vpvMiAJALU

  • @TheHyenaKing there are people who make such music... but the listeners are fewer than before, so many either go along with the trend or don't get much publicity and are "drowned" in the sea of so many others. Bethoven, Mozart and so on were unique in their time, so they got "all the publicity"...

    The other day, I heard this amazing music: to build a home, by cinematic orchestra... it is beautiful :)

  • Hmm yeah okay yeah, after a consuming and confusing on/off relationship with this enchanted piece, I consider with tremendous authority it to be the greatest song ever written....by humans. CASE CLOSED.

  • dang shes hot! them ukranian pianists gits me all the time

  • She doesn't just play music, she loves it, watch her fingers, she gently strokes strokes the keys.

  • Perfect...no words...

    

  • good combination, a master piece played by a sweet lady :) who wouldnt enjoy it :)

  • Wonderful Richard Clayderman plays this master piece really good you should listen him.I think he is one of the best interpret of this song.

  • @loco039 thats a good joke, hahaha :-)

  • oh she played für elise heavenly♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ beethoven would had tears in his eyes listen her

  • @justletmefuckinwatch man, it ain't real easy to play something easy with soul. A skilled pianist could play "Chopsticks" with feeling.

  • when are you going to play on the continent? Paris? Amsterdam? How about a small concert at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn?

  • 내가치면 학예회

  • the guy on the left of the screen looks bored

  • @MeowsRock yep, you are totally right. He should never bored with a classical piece, though it is easy and well-known. :)

  • I love it! ... but 2012?

  • And to all y'all: ü ü ü

    Für Elise. Means "For Elise"

    Fur Elise would be a doggy.

  • Well, it's a challenge to play simple stuff with soul. In my thirty years of playing the Formica buffet table (pedal steel guitar), my proudest moment was making three people in the audience cry with 8 bars of Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.

    It is also my aim to transcribe this piece to the pedal steel. I hope I do it nearly as soulful as she

  • This lady is AMAZING... incredible.... I am completely mesmerized....,,,so want to go to the Albert Hall to see her play..what do I do to get tickets?? Jules

  • this was my first piece of music I learned at the piano

  • Super!!

  • She plays like an angel..

  • Oh God I love Chopin

  • @7abraxas6 It was Beethoven, though..

  • @7abraxas6 Chopin?

  • @SakramEleventh11 , no, is Beethoven.

  • @angelita1950 I know :D Tell to @7abraxas6 :p

  • оч нравится

    

  • I am sure, Beethoven himself could not play this any better...love Valentina....

  • @christian1000bla dont ever say that.

  • @christian1000bla dont you dare , that is blesphamy

  • I think... Tie pianist played rachmaninoff op23 no5, people says, ang call then play this music, people music level is easy so people laughing

  • Beautiful woman, beautiful music, my favorite..wish i could be in london to see you.AMAZING!

  • They laughed at her because For elise concidered to be an easy piece..

  • impeccable execution. But sadly it's all too sweet low notes from beginning to end "Fur Elise" contains passages of sweetness, passion, anguish and despair, which are missing in this interpretation. It is technically flawless, but the soul of Beethoven's "Für Elise" there isn't in this interpretation.This is just my opinion.

  • youtube.com/watch?v=EmV35VPRT9­s

  • I guess at that point she needed a rest ..lol

  • I am a huge Pogorelich fan, but I have to admit - this rendition is as good as Ivo's.

  • @Alexa4Alexa Yes, it is truly beautiful.

  • If this music does not move you, you truly are emotionally dead.

  • @TheAntichrist4ever says the antichrist...

  • her hands are flowing....

  • Best version I've heard so far!

  • People laughed at recognition of the piece, which is so commonly heard

  • I'm thinking they laughed at something off-camera.

  • Effortless grace.

  • xk no ablais en español?¿

    

  • you and this piano...this music...make me smile...:)

  • Why laughing to playing? I can't understand

  • @kkkkkkkkkkkk240 yes me too 0:23 what is funny

  • People who don't study playing the piano plays all the time the beginning of this. And it sounds awful. But she made it sound so beautiful that I found myself stopping breathing at moments.

  • why the poepole is leafing when she start's playing fur elise ????

  • @whk14 Read the toprated comments..

  • por què chingados no se puede ver bien el pinche video

  • apparently ignorance IS bliss, because everybody laughed at the beginning -.-

  • I played that at the age of 9 at a school concert. I was nervous as hell. Never was an audition guy.

  • LOVE how she plays this! It's a simple piece, but she really brings such emotion to her music! And she doesn't speed through it like so many others who compromise exactly what she brought to Fur Elise--so beautiful! Not that I mind speed, it's not exactly that she is lacking in it, either.

  • no matter what she plays, she is wonderful. she is THE pianist of our time. i love every performance i have seen her do. i just wish i could be that good.

  • Imortal Music. Really!

  • why everyone laughed when she start's ?

  • @41omer41 Cause its a cheap one...

  • @41omer41 Because they expected something really loud and difficult, it was surprising

  • @41omer41 because Fur Elise is such popular and easy song.  Since she is known to be a great pianist, people thought she was just joking around for the first song

  • @41omer41 cus after playing impossible pieces for over an hour she plays something as easy as this

  • @41omer41 It is a famous piano piece by Beethoven.

  • @41omer41 Because, all people without exception know this composition even if they don`t know its name or its composer. They are well-surprised, finding out they are to listen this piece.

  • @41omer41 look at the stick behind her at 0:23. then u know why they laughed ;)

  • @41omer41 weil es als pianist/in absolut unüblich ist, als zugabe ein technisch dermassen einfaches stück zu spielen- der überraschungseffekt ist ihr jedenfalls gelungen ;-)

  • @korrepi don´t think so... easy pieces are not that uncommon in encores. But Für Elise, especially the few beginning notes, is just too famous a piece to be listened to without prejudice. It thus works as it´s own citation, having a funny connotation in a classical concert´s serious environment.

  • omg, that's just amazing...

  • delicate 

  • she needs to hang w James Valentine.....They'd make awesome music together :D

  • i am in love.. tanks for your music

  • beautiful

    

  • i like Fur elise since i was 4-5 year olds, now im 30+ lol

  • Вы играете гениально,мы очень любим вас,и всегда слушаем с большим удовольствием.Спосибо ,что вы ест и за то что вы дарите людьям самое прекрасное - музыку- со вкусом.МНОГО-МНОГО успехов и достижений.

  • *STANDING O* Bravo! Absolutely amazing.

  • why did they laugh when she started playing it? they must be really stupid cause to pay that much money to come she her play one of the greatest songs ever composed and then laugh??!! that is fucked up. i would do ANYTHING to go to a performance and to hear my favorite song played breathtakingly beautiful.

  • @musicismylife0122 you're surprised pretentious douchebags go to shows like this?

  • @musicismylife0122 It was her 4th encore. Just hear how the crowd sounds, see her little shoulder lift ("okay, whatever, I play one more") and how the crowd reacted to that.

    Then she sits down, the crowd expects something virtuoso as always, expecting to go out with a bang, and then she starts playing Fur Elise.

    They laughed, but it was not to ridicule her, it was just so unexpected. Don't mock them, it was a little laugh of joy.

  • @iMarklar agree! The crowd sounds like that! Obviously they like her!!!

  • @musicismylife0122 Per Elisa is very simple a composition , if you consider - for instance - "la campanella" that she also played. The crowd was not making fun of her, I believe it was her intention to cause a general laugh because the piece is very easy to play, considering her level. In fact, in the field of classical music, Per Elisa is considered to be one of the weakest pieces by Mozart. Maybe she was just too exhausted to play something as difficult as La Campanella. : )

  • @mrkarma85 A: You're right, they weren't making fun of her. It wasn't really a joke, but it was generally amusing that she would pick that, but that was only the initial reaction.

    B: It's a Bagatelle. It's not meant to be a particularly challenging piece, it's just an extra. However, it's not considered a weak piece, it's a rather strong piece and one of the most famous and recognisable pieces in history. I wouldn't call that weak.

    C. Beethoven, not Mozart.

  • @fissionesque of course it's Beethoven, that was a lapsus.

    What I mean with "weak" is not something like "worthless" or totally negative, just technically weak, I too like Fur Elise , though of course the fact that it is one of the most famous and recognisable pieces in history should not really be considered as a parameter.

  • Bravo Valentina, bravo! This is beautifoul. Verry nice. Ilove you.

  • Awesome. Just booked tickets, everyone really excited!

  • Valentina seems excited about the London gig. Will somebody tell her that she's bigger than Royal Albert hall. She'll wipe the floor with those British stuffed shirts!

  • no words needed...

  • wishing you all the best & success for the New Year!

  • Pure magic here

  • she looks creepy