It would be a waste not to perform this piece at your performance at Royal Albert Hall in June this year, even though some people consider it slightly radical, it is an exceptionally remarkable piece that people should be able to witness.
I've listened to this like 500 times so far. The calm part in the middle is just a tranquility, and I like playing drums on my knee or desk during the fast parts.
@capitanzach Come on. There isn´t much wrong with what she is wearing, and even if there was, it's not about her clothing - it's about her magnificent playing. You go, Valentina!
@capitanzach: I think Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Glenn Gould, et al would love to contemplate this video of Valentina playing. She is one of those ladies that "walks on beauty", like Lord Byron would say : ).
Classical music lover, but not terribly well educated in that area.
This melody has haunted me for decades. I first heard the strain in Wendy (then Walter) Carlos' "Timesteps" on the Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Then it kept turning up in other places such as Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini".
What a stunning performance! Absolutely phenomenal - from what I have learned this solo piano piece is extraordinarily challenging, and I can't imagine a better performan
When I cared much for Liszt, this was one of my favorite pieces and I had no idea there was a solo version... and now I think I understand why. The orchestration for this is terrible. This should be played with an orchestra. There are sounds that solo piano just cannot make that this piece absolutely must have.
This is no comment on her playing because I'm sure she's doing the best she can with a crummy orchestra reduction.
I am both amazed at the sheer brilliance and talent that Lisitsa has--and at the same time, depressed that never in a million years, even if my life depended on it, could ever get through Totentanz at 1/1000th the ability she has.....Brava Brava Brava. Magnificent.
Now I know why it's called "Dance of Death". Because you spend all your life getting that level of piano playing and learning this song, and then as an old person you play it once. Until you make a heart attack. And the moves you do while you play fast as hell and you shake your body because of the heart attack is considered as dance.
And also because after having heard this masterpiece, you can die peaceful !
every time i listen to this, i feel a deep inner pleasure in places of my body where i didn't even know that i had a place capable of feelings. this should be chosen as the anthem of classical piano music
@MadamePukengkay Olga Kern won the gold medal in the Van Cliburn competitions, while Valentina Lisitsa did not win any competition. So I guess Olga Kern is better.
it's just fantastic not only to listen to this masterpeace played by such a highly gifted woman, but also to watch her bolting with her hands and run over the whole claviature with an unbelievable speed!!!
I have watched this video literally more than 20 times. One of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. Thank you, Valentina, for introducing the epitome of Liszt's genius to me.
Personally, I think this could be used as an epic conclusion to an action film (this, or the orchestral version). Anyone agree?
horrible, esto no tiene ningun sentimiento. Es, sencillamente, una cagada. Lo lamento por Liszt, pero a veces los buenos musicos pueden hacer estupideces tambien....
@Slash0107 kjakjakja slash! sinceramente no estoy del todo deacuerdo con @sanpicolo , valentina tiene una gran habilidad y talento :D pero como muchos buenos músicos que conozco (ya experimentados) aun le falta madurar su estilo :) una cosa es la técnica (la que como vemos es increíble) y otra es la emoción, y SI! hacia la muerte podemos encontrar un montón! de sentimientos!!: Ira! Miedo! Pánico! desesperación! :) No digo que lo haga mal, de echo puedo sentir varios de ellos,peropodríamejorar :)
@singlehate estoy de acuerdo contigo, y probablemente si me equivoque al decir que hacia la muerte no hay sentimientos, pero hablando estrictamente de la pieza y en especico de Liszt, todos sabemos las piezas expresivas creadas por el son contadas, el se enfocaba mas hacia los tecnicismo y obviamente al virtuosismo, si bien los sentimientos Chopin los expresaba mejor que nadie. Pero hablar de que esta pieza es una "cagada", es casi casi negar la increible habilidad de composicion de Liszt
@Slash0107 jkajaj con eso estoy deacuerdo contigo xD esta pieza es magistral :) y siiii, zimerman es un genio verdad ? *-* ojalá hubiera sido mi padre xD
@Slash0107 Vos estas loco. La muerte es el acontecimiento de la vida que constituye mas emocionalidad que cualquier otro. Sin la muerte del padre de Piazzolla no tendriamos Adios Nonino. Entre la muerte y el amor no sabria decir a cual se le puede adjudicar mas inspiracion pasional. Pero esta obra insisto, es horrible. Igual Lizst es un Groso, una cosa no quita la otra, muchos minuets de Mozart son insoportables y por eso no quiero decir que Mozart sea un desastre
@sanpicolo Hola, no se si sabías que Valentina es reconocida por tocar la pieza al pie de la letra de las indicaciones de sus respectivos autores (en este caso Liszt). Investiga un poco más, colega.
@Hyperventilacion !!!es importante para ti tocar una pieza al pie de la letra ???. A mi no me importa eso, me importa que de la combinación sonora surja alguna sensación nueva, algo que me conmueva. Yo no estoy para analizar sintacticamente la obra de Cortazar, sino para deleitarme con su creatividad. Acá me parece que no hay creatividad, sino que están cagando a palos al pobre Steinway que no tiene la culpa. XD
Es mi apreciación sobre la música... No creo que sea ni correcta ni incorrecta...
@sanpicolo Aparte el estilo de Lizst es así un inmenso pavoneo de virtuosismo con un poquitín de sentimiento, entonces te aconsejo escuchar Chopin y similares.
@AEP517 you are not the only one. For me, this performance is a time unit. I have listened to this thousands of times and i know how much time has passed since the beginning of the piece.
Hope you don't mind Valentina, but one day I'll gather my family and friends, and marry this video.
@lecheparavaka: Medals? White House concerts. Seriously? Horowitz was great, as all the others mentioned. Lisitsa is simply better. She's also just starting out. Honors will come, without a doubt, but who cares? LISTEN TO HER PLAYING!
However, the idea that musical greatness is measured in political "honors" is beyond ignorant. Looking at it that way, Pete Townshend is greater than Beethoven. SIr Elton John trumps Chopin.
Valentina Lisitsa is the greatest living exponent of piano...maybe the greatest ever. Not Rubinstein, not Horowitz, not Gieseking...no one, in any way comes even close.
@mattleemattlee123 i dont see Valentina playing in the White House or being honored with medals by the Great Britain as Horowitz... so, think better before smashing those great pianists
Woooaw.Never touched to a piano. It looks like this should require incredible amount of effort,devotion,hard work,discipline and talent put together..Enjoyed it so much..
top comment dilettantish keef71 says " up until 30 seconds is heavy metal!"
if you had sat through more than 30 seconds then you would know that 90% of this piece IS filled with diabolical tension, driving rhythms, percussive textures, virtuosic ornamentation, chromatic harmonization and minor-tonal cadences........................................ if that is what you mean by your more colloquial 'heavy metal' comment.
Well, I got sheet music yesterday from IMSLP. While studying the piece, I tried playing second variation, glissando part of it (03:16 - 03:28). My fingers hurted a little, but I didn't mind that. After two minutes of practise, it started to sound like something. But, when I took a look at my thumb and my index finger, skin was peeled of and bleeding. There were blood stains at the keyboard as well, so you could see starting and ending tone of every glissando i played :D
Dear Valentina, if you would please, the right hand at 12:34 what's the correct fingering for the beginning of the phrase? on F-G-F-E-F I can't see if you're using 1-2-1-2-1 or 3-4-3-2-1? I'm trying both but I can't make a decision. I'd be honored to get a response :)
@Pavle245 That's certainly wrong. The leap from A to F with 3-5 is very unnatural. At high speed it's just impossible to play cleanly with that fingering.
@Pavle245 (1-2-1-2-1-3-5-3) same problem than (2-3-2-1-2-3-5-3). (3-5-3) is too unnatural. I'm now using (1-2-1-2-1-2-5-2), it flows extremely well at fast speed.
@Pavle245 search (google) with the keywords liszt totentanz imslp--> go to arrangements and transcriptions and choose the one for solo piano arranged by liszt himself
I watched so many performances of Valentina. I absolutely fell in love with her. She has such a great technique and knows exactly how to deliver every piece she plays.
My My! Please put your piano solo videos (soundtrack) on iTunes, I wouldn't mind buying an album of your piano solo songs. They are excellent. There's no nice Totentanz version on YouTube. I love the way you play it. First thing I did after hearing this is check on iTunes to see if its there... :(
15 minutes....the stamina O__O the SKILLZ!!! good lord....respect this woman, this is HARD ._. the octaves...whoa. the jumping around so accurately O__O WHOA. the finger speed and agility and use of the whole body and all the other insane stuff involve in playing this piece....just WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!!!!!
@DrStrangefate He's not a purist, he's just saying that if you really want to be negative about something which isn't, you should at least know what you're talking about. "jon6440" clearly hasn't got a clue what he's saying.
Then by that rationale ANYONE willing to comment on the piece has to call it a piece or their opinion is invalid. Or is it exclusive to those who you believe have no knowledge of classical music.
@DrStrangefate If I would give a comment on a baseball clip saying that the guy with the stick has to learn how to play, anyone who knows baseball would consider me a nitwit because it's not a "stick" but a "bat". Same thing here. Things have names. If you use the wrong name, people won't consider you an expert of any kind.
@DrStrangefate Well, I found it offensive that people call MsFloopdedoop a purist and a moron because he/she gave a comment which is absolutely true...
@MsFloopdedoop I'm tired of the "piece vs song" argument. Because someone calls it a piece it doesn't mean they know what the hell they are talking about. Knowing the lingo doesn't make a person smart. They are smart because of their ideas on a particular subject. And even if they aren't smart or educated on that subject and they just want to express their emotions and feelings towards the music then they shouldn't be ridiculed about it. Music >> semantics
@TwelfthRoot2 Yes, but giving comment on the technique and interpretation of a musician is something else than just saying "I like the piece" or "I don't like it". If someone says she is a bad musician, one supposes that this person knows what he's talking about. Calling this a "song" clearly shows that he doesn't have a clue and thus should not be commenting on the quality of the performance.
I personally don't like, i can't get how exactly is this song's shape... I mean it looks like it is a mixture of different part of different music that makes the music has no meaning. (i thumbed up because of her talent to play piano XD)
I have never heard anything like this! WHAT A TREAT!! =DD FANTASTIC!!!
gobelcanto02 2 hours ago
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wes5020 16 hours ago
Valentina should come to Brazil. It's time another great pianist visits us.
paulomtts 1 day ago
Valentina Lisitsa and Sarah Chang would be unbeatable together. Both genius.
punkviolin1 2 days ago
It would be a waste not to perform this piece at your performance at Royal Albert Hall in June this year, even though some people consider it slightly radical, it is an exceptionally remarkable piece that people should be able to witness.
Classified978 3 days ago
How do you remember all of this???
asdfg295 3 days ago in playlist Piano
The best Valentina Lisitsa!
DavidVBPiano 4 days ago
VALENTINA PLEASE COME TO MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY IN KENTUCKY!! WE PIANO STUDENTS WOULD VERY MUCH LOVE TO MEET AND LEARN FROM YOUR PEDAGOGY!!!!!!!!
Thomas11611 4 days ago
I hear Rachmaninov's Rhapsody for Piano and orchestra in this.
katchum 1 week ago
I've listened to this like 500 times so far. The calm part in the middle is just a tranquility, and I like playing drums on my knee or desk during the fast parts.
timpanitimptim 1 week ago
@timpanitimptim i know what you feel like, bro!
imoffthewall 5 days ago
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1:18 Yes, you can't play this.
SeungHwalCho 1 week ago
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SeungHwalCho 1 week ago
Couldn't she have worn something nicer?
capitanzach 1 week ago
@capitanzach Come on. There isn´t much wrong with what she is wearing, and even if there was, it's not about her clothing - it's about her magnificent playing. You go, Valentina!
Tu16 1 week ago
@capitanzach: I think Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Glenn Gould, et al would love to contemplate this video of Valentina playing. She is one of those ladies that "walks on beauty", like Lord Byron would say : ).
jazatube 6 days ago
this is EPIC!
Liszt is the best composer for piano and Valentina plays it superbly.
madeddi 1 week ago
Wow!! espectacular, brillante, fenomenal, esplendido!!
cindyadriana93 1 week ago
Classical music lover, but not terribly well educated in that area.
This melody has haunted me for decades. I first heard the strain in Wendy (then Walter) Carlos' "Timesteps" on the Clockwork Orange soundtrack. Then it kept turning up in other places such as Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini".
What a stunning performance! Absolutely phenomenal - from what I have learned this solo piano piece is extraordinarily challenging, and I can't imagine a better performan
hunkerrat 1 week ago
bravissima!
sibyellow 1 week ago
I am too desperated because my pc cannot play it in 720p well...
Pavle245 1 week ago
When I cared much for Liszt, this was one of my favorite pieces and I had no idea there was a solo version... and now I think I understand why. The orchestration for this is terrible. This should be played with an orchestra. There are sounds that solo piano just cannot make that this piece absolutely must have.
This is no comment on her playing because I'm sure she's doing the best she can with a crummy orchestra reduction.
youresomodest 1 week ago
Is at this world someone, who can play totentanz?
When i download the notes i was really shocked.
That's amazing. Valentina, i'm glad for you, that you have the succes with that.
AlexanderHaikkanen 1 week ago
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AnondesLandes 2 weeks ago
Can someone answer this question? I am very curious, Is this the most difficult piano piece ever written? (Technically Difficult) (:
armor175 2 weeks ago
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AnondesLandes 2 weeks ago
@armor175 Certainly not.
youresomodest 1 week ago
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armor175 2 weeks ago
I am both amazed at the sheer brilliance and talent that Lisitsa has--and at the same time, depressed that never in a million years, even if my life depended on it, could ever get through Totentanz at 1/1000th the ability she has.....Brava Brava Brava. Magnificent.
Renagle2005 2 weeks ago
The greatest piano performance I've ever seen!
hchoctow 2 weeks ago
What is 10:56? What does it have to do with Dies Irae or where did it come from? I can't figure it out.
001Asoer 2 weeks ago
You look like in 16x accelerated video recording :D Amazing!
MrOrganist007 2 weeks ago
This does sound great with the orchestra. I have an old recording of it from childhood, with Orazio Frugoni on piano.
MultiGypsy22 2 weeks ago
Fantastic playing. The woman is great, better than all the fast-playing idiots we see on YT all the time, playing someone else's transcriptions.
MultiGypsy22 2 weeks ago
@MultiGypsy22 Can you mention the name of one of these idiots?
MrSammyConcepcion 2 weeks ago
@MrSammyConcepcion No need to mention names, it could start a nasty argument. There are plenty of them on YT, you choose.
MultiGypsy22 2 weeks ago
Amazing!
She was tabernacled by Liszt??
0angeplume0 2 weeks ago
109 dislikes? idiots.
niceee :)
kubison13 2 weeks ago
Holly shit!
pomum88 2 weeks ago
I play better then her but I don't like showing off... heheheh
fernandofvduarte100 2 weeks ago
3:46 -> absolutely the best and most modern passage in romantic pieces
BleepeVeep 2 weeks ago
109 people are surely dancing now. Too bad they're also dead.
schytzo 2 weeks ago
Now I know why it's called "Dance of Death". Because you spend all your life getting that level of piano playing and learning this song, and then as an old person you play it once. Until you make a heart attack. And the moves you do while you play fast as hell and you shake your body because of the heart attack is considered as dance.
And also because after having heard this masterpiece, you can die peaceful !
FahrenheitJethro 2 weeks ago
every time i listen to this, i feel a deep inner pleasure in places of my body where i didn't even know that i had a place capable of feelings. this should be chosen as the anthem of classical piano music
JWentu 2 weeks ago
Absolutely stunning! <3 Come to italian theatres!!!!!!!!!!!!
raisingirl88 2 weeks ago
Who is better, Olga Kern or Valentina Lisitsa?
MadamePukengkay 2 weeks ago
@MadamePukengkay Olga Kern won the gold medal in the Van Cliburn competitions, while Valentina Lisitsa did not win any competition. So I guess Olga Kern is better.
MrSammyConcepcion 1 week ago
@MadamePukengkay Olga.
youresomodest 1 week ago
it's just fantastic not only to listen to this masterpeace played by such a highly gifted woman, but also to watch her bolting with her hands and run over the whole claviature with an unbelievable speed!!!
XdefinitecodeX 2 weeks ago
I was scared as hell at 1:40, thought i was in for another shocking chord
Centario13 2 weeks ago
Awesome piece, and played brilliantly. I just got home from seeing Valentina Lisitsa play Rachmaninoff's Concerto no. 2 in c minor; she was amazing.
CellistOvMetal 3 weeks ago 15
@CellistOvMetal i was there aalso amazing :)
spadesofchaos 2 weeks ago
I have watched this video literally more than 20 times. One of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. Thank you, Valentina, for introducing the epitome of Liszt's genius to me.
Personally, I think this could be used as an epic conclusion to an action film (this, or the orchestral version). Anyone agree?
MusicalKeyProdigy55 3 weeks ago 48
@MusicalKeyProdigy55 Only 20? :)
MrHeyheyhey27 2 weeks ago
@MusicalKeyProdigy55
I think I watched it +50 times, and I could watch it 50 more!
Kinjutsuu 1 week ago
@MusicalKeyProdigy55 After composing this astonizing piece, Liszt became the best piano composer instanctly, at least for me.
Chopin (who I absolutely love), is an amateur comparing to Liszt
Adri58 1 week ago
@MusicalKeyProdigy55 ".Thank you, Valentina, for introducing the epitome of Liszt's genius to me."
My sentiments exactly!!
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edwardkeefner 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
@MusicalKeyProdigy55 That would be obsolete. It's far greater than an action film in itself.
Jolteon206 6 hours ago
with in the first 5 seconds i hit the like button
GuitarShadow18 3 weeks ago
@GuitarShadow18 LOL
Adri58 1 week ago
LIMITE DEL CAOS!!
Xim723 3 weeks ago
@Xim723 Liszt era un puto dios. Así de simple
Adri58 1 week ago
get married to this video*
Agiyi 3 weeks ago
@sanpicolo Por que?
majav15mg 3 weeks ago
horrible, esto no tiene ningun sentimiento. Es, sencillamente, una cagada. Lo lamento por Liszt, pero a veces los buenos musicos pueden hacer estupideces tambien....
sanpicolo 3 weeks ago
@sanpicolo La pieza trata de la muerte idiota, como se puede tener un sentimiento hacia la muerte??!!!
Slash0107 3 weeks ago
@Slash0107 kjakjakja slash! sinceramente no estoy del todo deacuerdo con @sanpicolo , valentina tiene una gran habilidad y talento :D pero como muchos buenos músicos que conozco (ya experimentados) aun le falta madurar su estilo :) una cosa es la técnica (la que como vemos es increíble) y otra es la emoción, y SI! hacia la muerte podemos encontrar un montón! de sentimientos!!: Ira! Miedo! Pánico! desesperación! :) No digo que lo haga mal, de echo puedo sentir varios de ellos,peropodríamejorar :)
singlehate 2 weeks ago
@singlehate estoy de acuerdo contigo, y probablemente si me equivoque al decir que hacia la muerte no hay sentimientos, pero hablando estrictamente de la pieza y en especico de Liszt, todos sabemos las piezas expresivas creadas por el son contadas, el se enfocaba mas hacia los tecnicismo y obviamente al virtuosismo, si bien los sentimientos Chopin los expresaba mejor que nadie. Pero hablar de que esta pieza es una "cagada", es casi casi negar la increible habilidad de composicion de Liszt
Slash0107 2 weeks ago
@Slash0107 jkajaj con eso estoy deacuerdo contigo xD esta pieza es magistral :) y siiii, zimerman es un genio verdad ? *-* ojalá hubiera sido mi padre xD
singlehate 2 weeks ago
@Slash0107 Podrías también escuchar la versión interpretada por Zimermann también es buena :)
singlehate 2 weeks ago
@singlehate Zimermann un genio!, nada mas q decir
Slash0107 2 weeks ago
@Slash0107 Vos estas loco. La muerte es el acontecimiento de la vida que constituye mas emocionalidad que cualquier otro. Sin la muerte del padre de Piazzolla no tendriamos Adios Nonino. Entre la muerte y el amor no sabria decir a cual se le puede adjudicar mas inspiracion pasional. Pero esta obra insisto, es horrible. Igual Lizst es un Groso, una cosa no quita la otra, muchos minuets de Mozart son insoportables y por eso no quiero decir que Mozart sea un desastre
sanpicolo 2 weeks ago
@sanpicolo Hola, no se si sabías que Valentina es reconocida por tocar la pieza al pie de la letra de las indicaciones de sus respectivos autores (en este caso Liszt). Investiga un poco más, colega.
Hyperventilacion 2 weeks ago
@Hyperventilacion !!!es importante para ti tocar una pieza al pie de la letra ???. A mi no me importa eso, me importa que de la combinación sonora surja alguna sensación nueva, algo que me conmueva. Yo no estoy para analizar sintacticamente la obra de Cortazar, sino para deleitarme con su creatividad. Acá me parece que no hay creatividad, sino que están cagando a palos al pobre Steinway que no tiene la culpa. XD
Es mi apreciación sobre la música... No creo que sea ni correcta ni incorrecta...
sanpicolo 2 weeks ago
@sanpicolo Aparte el estilo de Lizst es así un inmenso pavoneo de virtuosismo con un poquitín de sentimiento, entonces te aconsejo escuchar Chopin y similares.
Hyperventilacion 2 weeks ago
@Hyperventilacion Bueno, tambien tenemos por ahí el Liebestraume y obras similares. Yo creo que ahí Liszt demuestra sentimiento.
Pero tienes razón, Chopin es delicado, mientras que Liszt es lo contrario. Pero, que cojones, Liszt es la polla!!! xDD
Adri58 1 week ago
this rocks!
V0r4xX 3 weeks ago
Finally this awesome video has one million views! Valentina absolutely rules this piece - death comes alive when she plays.
Congratulations!
belegSJ 3 weeks ago
Does anyone have the link for iTunes? Thanks :-)
sprengmeister1975 3 weeks ago
The piano suffered for 15 minutes
krimizisa 3 weeks ago
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krimizisa 3 weeks ago
Call me crazy but I listen to this performance by valentina at least 3-5 times a day lmao
AEP517 3 weeks ago 3
@AEP517 you are not the only one. For me, this performance is a time unit. I have listened to this thousands of times and i know how much time has passed since the beginning of the piece.
Hope you don't mind Valentina, but one day I'll gather my family and friends, and marry this video.
Agiyi 3 weeks ago
excuse me while i pick up my face off the floor. she just smashed it... thanks.
jomoses07 3 weeks ago
thumbs up if you've watched this video at least two times and wouldn't mind watching again...
TheSmaxdot 3 weeks ago
14:13 - 14:53 actually is one of my favorite parts of any piece ever written
Gamma1734 3 weeks ago
I really need a download of this somehow. This is just simply heaven. Upload to iTunes...I'd pay for it!
schytzo 3 weeks ago
i just fell in love
emerica4u 3 weeks ago
This sounds quite alike Berlioz symphony fantastique 5th movement. It's the theme that's introduced via the brass and the bells.
vanburikwouter 3 weeks ago
@vanburikwouter That's the Dies Irae chant from the Catholic liturgy. It comes from the Requiem mass and is used in many pieces about death.
DrivingGames 3 weeks ago
This is flawless. I have nothing else to say, it's perfection.
FatToti 3 weeks ago
@lecheparavaka: Medals? White House concerts. Seriously? Horowitz was great, as all the others mentioned. Lisitsa is simply better. She's also just starting out. Honors will come, without a doubt, but who cares? LISTEN TO HER PLAYING!
However, the idea that musical greatness is measured in political "honors" is beyond ignorant. Looking at it that way, Pete Townshend is greater than Beethoven. SIr Elton John trumps Chopin.
I stand by my earlier statement.
mattleemattlee123 3 weeks ago
fantastic!!!!!!
nebrot219293 3 weeks ago
how the hell is it possible to move hands like she did froum about 7:13 !? amazing.
pawelbrzezinskifb 3 weeks ago
@pawelbrzezinskifb Maybe, she is not Valentina. Maybe she is Liszt reincarnated LOL
It´s the only explanation.
Adri58 1 week ago
Valentina Lisitsa is the greatest living exponent of piano...maybe the greatest ever. Not Rubinstein, not Horowitz, not Gieseking...no one, in any way comes even close.
End of discussion.
mattleemattlee123 3 weeks ago
@mattleemattlee123 i dont see Valentina playing in the White House or being honored with medals by the Great Britain as Horowitz... so, think better before smashing those great pianists
lecheparavaka 3 weeks ago
Woooaw.Never touched to a piano. It looks like this should require incredible amount of effort,devotion,hard work,discipline and talent put together..Enjoyed it so much..
Summanininruhu 4 weeks ago
frate, s-a stins lumina....no comments. just great.!
formatiaambiental 4 weeks ago
This is the greatest peice of music I have ever heared
Bojangulz87 4 weeks ago
top comment dilettantish keef71 says " up until 30 seconds is heavy metal!"
if you had sat through more than 30 seconds then you would know that 90% of this piece IS filled with diabolical tension, driving rhythms, percussive textures, virtuosic ornamentation, chromatic harmonization and minor-tonal cadences........................................ if that is what you mean by your more colloquial 'heavy metal' comment.
lysergicfunk 4 weeks ago 16
@lysergicfunk
you sound like a douche mate get over yourself.
accessandamplify 2 weeks ago
@lysergicfunk feeling better now?
MrDumpLoader 2 weeks ago
Well, I got sheet music yesterday from IMSLP. While studying the piece, I tried playing second variation, glissando part of it (03:16 - 03:28). My fingers hurted a little, but I didn't mind that. After two minutes of practise, it started to sound like something. But, when I took a look at my thumb and my index finger, skin was peeled of and bleeding. There were blood stains at the keyboard as well, so you could see starting and ending tone of every glissando i played :D
Pavle245 1 month ago
Dear Valentina, if you would please, the right hand at 12:34 what's the correct fingering for the beginning of the phrase? on F-G-F-E-F I can't see if you're using 1-2-1-2-1 or 3-4-3-2-1? I'm trying both but I can't make a decision. I'd be honored to get a response :)
KoopaKool 1 month ago
@KoopaKool I play 2-3-2-1-2-3-5-3 :D
Pavle245 4 weeks ago
@Pavle245 That's certainly wrong. The leap from A to F with 3-5 is very unnatural. At high speed it's just impossible to play cleanly with that fingering.
KoopaKool 4 weeks ago
@KoopaKool Damn, I thought that it was D, but now I see that it is F after all. :D Thanks, man. 1-2-1-2-1-3-5-3 is better, though.
Pavle245 4 weeks ago
@Pavle245 (1-2-1-2-1-3-5-3) same problem than (2-3-2-1-2-3-5-3). (3-5-3) is too unnatural. I'm now using (1-2-1-2-1-2-5-2), it flows extremely well at fast speed.
KoopaKool 3 weeks ago
@KoopaKool Yeah, nice :)
Pavle245 3 weeks ago
Can anybody send me sheet music? Please? :)
Pavle245 1 month ago
@Pavle245 search (google) with the keywords liszt totentanz imslp--> go to arrangements and transcriptions and choose the one for solo piano arranged by liszt himself
MoritzFaessler 1 month ago
How can this such beautiful piece have so many dislikes? It's impossible to comprehend for me...
Dislike nazis shall go dance when they die!
bee7695 1 month ago
I think I suffered permanent brain damage from not being able to breathe for 14 minutes and 53 seconds!!!
WOW!!!
PatriotCondor 1 month ago 20
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. LISITSA.
cajjlo 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I love the gesture of excitement at the very end. She conquered it! Awesome!
IVIordant 1 month ago
Does anyone else think this could fit in a Tim Burton film?
EvanFingerstyle 1 month ago
happy 1 million to you, valentina
(^^)
injektileur 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
107 people danced the dance of death and died.
chicagoloop1992 1 month ago
I watched so many performances of Valentina. I absolutely fell in love with her. She has such a great technique and knows exactly how to deliver every piece she plays.
alperloos 1 month ago
My My! Please put your piano solo videos (soundtrack) on iTunes, I wouldn't mind buying an album of your piano solo songs. They are excellent. There's no nice Totentanz version on YouTube. I love the way you play it. First thing I did after hearing this is check on iTunes to see if its there... :(
EnviroTemd 1 month ago 2
@EnviroTemd This. I really wish I could listen to Valentina's amazing performances on the way to and from work.
javozabo 1 month ago
Just 1500 views more and it will have 1 000 000!
emopz13 1 month ago 3
Valentina Lisitsa, you're wonderful, your hands fly on the piano
isaax141 1 month ago
My favorite music, she is my idol. :)
benhey100 1 month ago
Je ne peux même plus calculé le nombre de fois que j'ai écouté cette pièce, mais je sais qu'à chaque fois, c'est un orgasme auditif! Eargasm!
Whylen94 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
She is a monster she is almost like whatever Paganini was with violin..
Good thing i am not a pianist, i would be very jealous.
In short i declare her The best pianist in the all entire world right now..
Summanininruhu 1 month ago
15 minutes....the stamina O__O the SKILLZ!!! good lord....respect this woman, this is HARD ._. the octaves...whoa. the jumping around so accurately O__O WHOA. the finger speed and agility and use of the whole body and all the other insane stuff involve in playing this piece....just WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!!!!!
Liszt is just so..... O__O ._. T___T
BizzieLizzieMusic 1 month ago
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jon6440 1 month ago
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please, if you're going to play this, play it properly, please dont ruin this song
jon6440 1 month ago
@jon6440 Would you give me a link to good version?
BalladeNumber1Opus23 1 month ago
@jon6440 bad troll is bad
aleluman1 1 month ago
@jon6440 Please, if you're going to comment, know the difference that this is not a "song" but a piece.
MsFloopdedoop 1 month ago 20
@MsFloopdedoop No one likes a purist. Let everyone enjoy it.
DrStrangefate 4 weeks ago
@DrStrangefate He's not a purist, he's just saying that if you really want to be negative about something which isn't, you should at least know what you're talking about. "jon6440" clearly hasn't got a clue what he's saying.
fluffytom82 4 weeks ago
@fluffytom82
Then by that rationale ANYONE willing to comment on the piece has to call it a piece or their opinion is invalid. Or is it exclusive to those who you believe have no knowledge of classical music.
DrStrangefate 4 weeks ago
@DrStrangefate If I would give a comment on a baseball clip saying that the guy with the stick has to learn how to play, anyone who knows baseball would consider me a nitwit because it's not a "stick" but a "bat". Same thing here. Things have names. If you use the wrong name, people won't consider you an expert of any kind.
fluffytom82 4 weeks ago
@fluffytom82
Fairly certain he didn't say he was an expert of any kind. So I say again, let everyone enjoy it for what it is. Music. Song or piece.
And no I wouldn't consider the person a moron or nitwit. I've heard far worse.
DrStrangefate 4 weeks ago
@fluffytom82
The only ignorance I find offensive is the kind that involves discrimination or belittling someone for their choice of words.
DrStrangefate 4 weeks ago
@DrStrangefate Well, I found it offensive that people call MsFloopdedoop a purist and a moron because he/she gave a comment which is absolutely true...
fluffytom82 3 weeks ago
@fluffytom82
I never said moron. Do not insert insults where there were none.
DrStrangefate 3 weeks ago
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@DrStrangefate You didn't, but someone did...
"@MsFloopdedoop You're a fuckin' moron.
TheFantasticCorndog"
fluffytom82 3 weeks ago
@fluffytom82 Or maybe it's exclusive to those with a negative opinion.
DrStrangefate 4 weeks ago
@fluffytom82 That was all I was trying to say aha! Don't see why people need to spew profanities
MsFloopdedoop 4 weeks ago
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TwelfthRoot2 4 weeks ago
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@MsFloopdedoop I'm tired of the "piece vs song" argument. Because someone calls it a piece it doesn't mean they know what the hell they are talking about. Knowing the lingo doesn't make a person smart. They are smart because of their ideas on a particular subject. And even if they aren't smart or educated on that subject and they just want to express their emotions and feelings towards the music then they shouldn't be ridiculed about it. Music >> semantics
TwelfthRoot2 4 weeks ago
@TwelfthRoot2 Yes, but giving comment on the technique and interpretation of a musician is something else than just saying "I like the piece" or "I don't like it". If someone says she is a bad musician, one supposes that this person knows what he's talking about. Calling this a "song" clearly shows that he doesn't have a clue and thus should not be commenting on the quality of the performance.
fluffytom82 4 weeks ago
@MsFloopdedoop You're a piece :)
sabbersolo 3 weeks ago
07:13 - 09:40
cyril0697 1 month ago
Imagine im inside the big house alone and heard that piano sound.. i wouldn't dare to out from my room>>
punkypinkyR1 1 month ago 2
03:45 - 04:00 most famous piece of liszt ever
tntalus 1 month ago
@tntalus and which piece is that
gtizzle101 1 month ago
Interpretação Genial!!!
avalokiteshivara 1 month ago
07:00 my favorite part
cyril0697 1 month ago
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shouldn't she be in the kitchen making me a sandwich? o_O
speedyguy8 1 month ago
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aleluman1 1 month ago
Their isn't even any lyrichs to this this is dum.
willroseliep 1 month ago
O_O
SolMayadel 1 month ago
all i have to say is.....wow this is amazing and oh my god that is fast!
hat is so impressive im in shock...wow and that is fast playing...
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GothicGirl129 1 month ago
yea thats right XD
1:19
122294leelem 1 month ago
la poseyó el diablo! she's amazing!
weirdoadventure 1 month ago
I'm in love with Lisitsa
SandroVardiashvili 1 month ago
Good god, that was insane! :D
theonlyhackysack 1 month ago
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blemius 1 month ago
Bang bang bang
duckisfaction 1 month ago
Epic arm movement at 1:40! :D
principessadolce22 1 month ago
at 1:00 I first thougt it would be made quicker
444Gothmog 1 month ago
someone like this music ?
I personally don't like, i can't get how exactly is this song's shape... I mean it looks like it is a mixture of different part of different music that makes the music has no meaning. (i thumbed up because of her talent to play piano XD)
Dark0Miku 1 month ago
@Dark0Miku See what totentanz means, then u will understand what does the actual music is trying to express.
JuanBejarano92 1 month ago
@JuanBejarano92 it would be easier if you tell me ^^
Dark0Miku 1 month ago