A wonderful encounter with Valentina Lisitsa

Here's my video-portrait of piano genius Valentina Lisitsa, my favourite classical pianist and certainly one of the very best classical pianists the world has ever witnessed.
I interviewed and filmed Valentina on 2 April 2009 in London. I've combined my material from London with dvd-material and pictures of Valentina (all used with permission) and I hope the result shows both Valentina's immense musical powers as well as her friendly, spontaneous, energetic and witty nature... she's such a delightful person.
Apart from this portrait I've published the complete pieces of music Valentina played during the interview (4x Rachmaninoff and 1x Schumann) elsewhere on my Youtube-channel. Check them out, they're all great performances!
It was so much fun meeting Valentina and producing this video! :)
Hope you'll enjoy this video and look out for your response.
[Pieter de Rooij, 15-6-2009]

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[consultjohan]

Stunning portraits, especially the one at 3:43! Couldn't find any more on flickr. Did you take them Pieter?

[PieterdeRooijHolland]

@consultjohan : Of the stills in this clip I took (of course) those in London - done after my filming - those at 1'01 and 5'02 (there's more on my website). The other stills in this clip, such as the well known one at 3:43, are by Alexei, Valentina's husband. All used with permission of my dear friends :)

[sososo2000]

what is the name of the piece that start around 4:10 untill 5:07 ?

[PieterdeRooijHolland]

@sososo2000 : It's Schubert's song "Ständchen" transcribed for piano solo by Franz Liszt

[kelseylee94]

oh my word.

this lady is my hero!!

[Bridog1977]

Most amazing women ever!!!best piano player ever and by the way i love her accent

[Summanininruhu]

what a marvelous human being..Love you Valentina,come to Newyork please!!

[SilverAspen1]

Valentina... we LOVE you!!!!!!

[JuniixForever]

Isn't she the greatest ever? :) Wow! So charming and skilled. Watching her puts me in a better mood.

[Hobott]

Charming woman, playful, with humour and 500% profi

[iMarklar]

@ricp123 Yeah, me too. She pushes up the IQ average of the USA, false statistics.

[henrikcam]

She is so goddamn incredible!

[AttemptingToBeBusy]

What a nice lady.

[Ruby09de]

You're incredible...wonderful!

[MsGibbone]

Wonderful english...:-)

[371gaston]

I love this verry much