Listen from Cziffra. ... I am a professional classical music performer. In my opinion ( that is just my opinion-- I know) , Cziffra is the ultimate highest... We can go phrase by phrase, and I will tell you, why Cziffra is far the best of all others. Of course, you will have to be a professional classical musician to be able to andurstand the difference.
I love including the historical context. It gives the music a setting, possible motives while teaching history. It also underlines the fact that everything was new, much controversial, when it first came on the scene.
Easily one of Chopin's greatest works. That final little solo melody at the end is one of the most beautiful moments in music, and the journey this piece takes one on is amazing. No fantasy comes close, even those involving Jessica Alba.
Thank you. That was beautiful! No, I am going to add to that. Your performance was exquisite, the sound and cinematography excellent, and thank you for your sensitive description. Bravo! 👏🎹
Great commentary on this piece Valentina! Thank you especially for the historical information in the bottom half. My parents bought me a record of Chopin's life and that is when I fell in love with his music and there was some narrative about his life, but not as much information as you put that explains what was going on then and influenced his music. Thank you.
Love her commentary on Chopin, the time, Polish nationalism, the drawing room context of his performances. Love her playing, no overly dramatic rubato, just skill and emotion! Awesome!
Dramatic rubato makes it better. ( not overly). Talent is more brave. Otherwise just like all others. Afraid to be brave. Perhaps because they don't really feel the real drama if mucis.
This commentary is spellbinding--I have just recently read about the Polish uprising--the world is ignorant of so much history, myself included. The context is not only of paramount importance in understanding the music, but the perception of Chopin is completely altered, forever, in one's mind. This is an epiphany of monumental musical proportions. We have you to thank, and so much more to look forward to in your works and your words, which are a bridge across the centuries.
I have heard several performances o fthis that sounded more like a schubert piece. I appreciate that this is played in a way that sounds chopin distinct and keeps the polish character during the flourishy part
I love this piece, and your playing of it opened new depths of understanding and beauty. Your description of its composition explains why you can offer this perspective to us!
i am stunned! i went to amazon to buy your videos. Sold out! Not surprised. I don't know how I was unaware of you until today. but now that i know i want to see you perform in person! Love your channel! YOU ARE THE BEST!
thank you for your talent and interpretation. also thank you for your brilliant analysis. I have great admiration for F.Chopin and your text really touched me.
This song-and her performance makes me cry! Inspired me so much-I had to go out and buy the music and learn it for myself! Thanks @ValentinaLisitsa for inspiring me to keep challenging myself and keep growing as a professional musician. You are simply amazing! :)
Besides the great music I also thoroughly enjoyed Valentina's explanation about its historical origins, "program" music and the importance of Chopin at a time when Poland had disappeared as an independent country. She writes very well, in a simple, conversational style, but giving all her perspective as a musician too. Brava, Valentina, brava! Carry on!
Valentina, thanks for that valuable history lesson. It's a sad reflection of time that the strong use the weak for their own devices, I wish it weren't so. At least we have famous artists over time that keep the stories alive in music, picture and word. Thankyou.
Yes, she is playing barefooted. Does that surprise anyone? And, further, I would not be too surprised to find out that she plays the keys with them as well. She is strength and loveliness blended. Dear, thank you for making our lives richer.
@ValentinaLisitsa - I listened to this piece when I was 12... made a deep impact in me, but could not remember the composer. 18 years later... I find it played by you (with a great -loved it!!!- written preface). You truly made my day! You have no idea the expression in my face after finding this "lost piece in my head" 18 years after! Thank you!!!
I love watching and listening to this woman playing the piano so much. She is so in trance with what she does, it's unbelievable. aaand i usually play with my socks on xD hihi
Thank you for your generosity in letting us into your world when you play via UA-cam and for graciously sharing your knowledge. Thank you for being so very authentic. (Plus, needless to say, you are incredible!)
It's actually really nice to have a feel for the pedals. Plus, everyone practices barefoot, so perhaps it should become the norm for performance as well.
_I_ practice barefoot, and unless you're one of those people who wears their shoes inside their own house (and let's be honest, can they really be classified as _people_?), it's far too inconvenient to put shoes or socks on before having a go at the daily piano routine. I remember playing barefoot when I was four years old, and the pick-up-and-play quality of the piano made it very accessible to me. Indeed, if I'd had to put shoes on every single time I wanted to practice the instrument or compose, I doubt I'd still be playing today. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single pianist friend of mine who doesn't practice barefoot. So there, myehhh!
Anime Lover Doesn't it ever feel weird to not feel the pedal though? Try playing without socks, just once. I almost guarantee you'll prefer it after a few hours of getting used to it.
Как же красиво Валентина Лисица играет босиком на фортепиано. Невозможно устроять перед величественностью и грациозностью этих ножек. И перед красотой и обаянием самой пианистки.
Your description is interesting and a good history lesson.Bravo!! This pianopiece is one of my fovourites and your interpretation is soooooooo good. many thanks
It's really cool, the comments that you make under some pieces, I like to learn interesting stuff about the composer's life or about the piece itself! Thanks V!
Hi Valentina, I am only new to, if I may say so, Western Classical Music - baby steps. I loved your Liszt recordings and have started with Chopin now. The passage you have written down in the "description" section is very very good (though not as good as the music itself is played). Thanks for all the music you have made live here. Thanks!
Aparte de que eres una pianista impresionante, eres una interprete magnífica de una gran elegancia interpretando...TE FELICITO...... Te he conocido por esta red y me has impactado. FELIZ NAVIDAD Saludos cordiales...desde Barcelona
tout est magnifique dans la façon dont vous mettez littéralement en scène vos mains sur le clavier, la musique est extraordinaire, une très belle oeuvre de Chopin, mais vous l'habillez d'un prestige inégalable, celui de votre présence et votre talent. Tout est beau dans cette séquence, à commencer par l'interprète. Bravo une fois de plus.
i enjoy you playing. You play with panache and conviction. I have enjoyed "getting to know you" via u tube. You seem like a lovely person. i recall however, playing for a jury, who where commenting on the scope of my concerto repetoire. i commented that " i don't find the Brahms (B flat) difficult. I quickly learned that this is a quick way to be toppled from what I perceived to be my throne.
i'm in the middle of learning this---its one of my Chopin favorites. it's definitely a tough song to play...gosh, how do you get so good? Definitely best interpretation/ performance of this song iv seen so far. Love your videos---You are truly one of the best pianists (if not the best) out there.
@ValentinaLisitsa I literally fell in love with you :) too bad you're already married Keep uploading videos I enjoy so much watching them! And I love your way of playing!!
Hi, Valentina.. I had the delight of hearing you play this piece in Buenos Aires, at the Colon Theatre. You've captured all the emotions of this piece and delivered it from your heart to your fingers which beautifully set every emotion free, for us to enjoy it, for us to taste it, for us to feel it and to breathe it in the air...That was so intense...When are you coming back to Argentina? I hope you’ll do it soon. I'm looking forward to hearing you play live again. Best wishes, Georgeu.
Awesome and interesting reading once again. I agree on detailed programs that can become dated. It happened in some parts of Pink Floyd last Waters-leaded album "The Final Cut" with names of presidents and other historic figures of around 1983. Anyway I prefer Liszt to Chopin ... as I adore "The Final Cut" ^_^ Sorry, I couldn't resist, lol. Keep playing in such a wonderful way Valentina ! (And please come to Italy ^_^)
@maaanny16 i gasped when i read fantasie but then i saw it was f minor :( but still great valentina! please please please c-sharp minor! i learned that this summer and really want to hear you play it! there are not many good recordings of that and im sure u will be no. 1!!! keep it up :D
@theoryman1 yes, you're right!! there are only 3 measures of the arpeggios at that part and she did indeed play 4...It's an inconsistent repetition from before and it's easy to miss. I admit that I had to pay special attention to it when I started to memorize it. I really hope she catches that mistake and fixes it before she performs it again!
Beautiful piece, powerful playing. The "history lesson" added to my appreciation of it. The videography is inspired too...and are you playing BAREFOOTED?!?
This is honestly the most beautiful cover of this song that I’ve heard in my whole life and it’s truly phenomenal how your fingers glide on those ivory’s and just go with it, it’s truly amazing! I’d love to know, what was the first song you ever learned?
The guillotine strike is in the 4'th movement of the symphony fantastique. 3'rd movement is the scene in the country. Regardless, this is a marvelous interpretation of the f minor fantasy by Chopin.
Oh!! I almost loved your interpretation! Everything was going perfect until the very last moment before the ending; the part with only the right hand playing C - Eb - C - Bb - Ab. Why did you left the pedal!!?? I respect your decision, I just think it doesn't work like that. But thank you so much for your performance!
I had the honor of hearing this LIVE on Buenos Aires (it was my honeymoon! :D) and was even more breathtaking. I hope that you upload the Rondeau Fantastique that you perform, better than anything else on youtube Kind Regards from Chile PS: could you ever do Bach's Italian Concerto? I would love if your fingers could bless us all with that piece
Hi MIke Karren--I appreciate your attempt at historical accuracy. I think that you still might have your sisters mixed up. It was his older sister Ludwicka who was with him when he died and was able to smuggle his heart back into Poland. The issue of TB or CF is unresolved--I'd be surprised that someone with CF in those days would have been able to live so long! Perhaps it sounds catty to say it, but Liszt had the advantage of living longer than most of his contemporaries, so he was able to draw on the genius of others in his later compositions. It's true of Haydn, too--some of his greatest.works were written after Mozart passed away.
Valentina, I wish you could put up some slow motion videos on these Chopin/Liszt pieces (especially etudes) so we trying hard students could better study your movements.
@carlhopkinson if the videos are in uncompressed or low compressed form, in 60P which some domestic digital cameras can do you will see most of it with careful observation, but it would need more bandwidth and storage I think that Google/UA-cam would care for I think.
I am recently learning Liszt's Funerailles and reading what you wrote in the description box inspired me, it is very hard to play this piece and at the same time detach yourself from the history behind it. In this case Liszt's dedication to his countryman that perished during the revolution or as other suggest a dedication to his friend Chopin since he wrote October 1849 on the original manuscript. I guess I will think about Chopin while playing this the Funerailles :)
*sigh* That's not what he meant. It's not about who's better, or who's worse....think it about it. Some people are just so simple-minded that they think music comes down to who can play it better, it's a shame really...
Jeeze! What a video! And what a text! Thank you, everybody should write such musical-historical contexts when posting a music video. And everybody should play like you ^^ I bow before you Valentina, once again
Listening to this was worth living for. I could not be more grateful. Thank You Valentina, from Poland...
Listen from Cziffra. ...
I am a professional classical music performer.
In my opinion ( that is just my opinion-- I know) , Cziffra is the ultimate highest...
We can go phrase by phrase, and I will tell you, why Cziffra is far the best of all others. Of course, you will have to be a
professional classical musician to be able to andurstand the difference.
Thank you for Chopin. I love Poland.
I love including the historical context. It gives the music a setting, possible motives while teaching history.
It also underlines the fact that everything was new, much controversial, when it first came on the scene.
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she is one of the great virtuoso pianists of today,i love the way she plays whith such passion and techniche and Understanding of the music,
That is a compliment to be taken seriously: a Polish pianist compliments a Ukrainian pianist for playing Chopin. Wow. Now, I believe!
Easily one of Chopin's greatest works. That final little solo melody at the end is one of the most beautiful moments in music, and the journey this piece takes one on is amazing.
No fantasy comes close, even those involving Jessica Alba.
Thank you. That was beautiful! No, I am going to add to that. Your performance was exquisite, the sound and cinematography excellent, and thank you for your sensitive description. Bravo! 👏🎹
Every day I thank Valentina for the music that knows no borders or barriers. It's important now, more than ever, to realise this. 👋👋👋
Great commentary on this piece Valentina! Thank you especially for the historical information in the bottom half. My parents bought me a record of Chopin's life and that is when I fell in love with his music and there was some narrative about his life, but not as much information as you put that explains what was going on then and influenced his music. Thank you.
Love her commentary on Chopin, the time, Polish nationalism, the drawing room context of his performances. Love her playing, no overly dramatic rubato, just skill and emotion! Awesome!
Dramatic rubato makes it better. ( not overly). Talent is more brave. Otherwise just like all others. Afraid to be brave. Perhaps because they don't really feel the real drama if mucis.
Music.
This commentary is spellbinding--I have just recently read about the Polish uprising--the world is ignorant of so much history, myself included. The context is not only of paramount importance in understanding the music, but the perception of Chopin is completely altered, forever, in one's mind. This is an epiphany of monumental musical proportions. We have you to thank, and so much more to look forward to in your works and your words, which are a bridge across the centuries.
I have heard several performances o fthis that sounded more like a schubert piece. I appreciate that this is played in a way that sounds chopin distinct and keeps the polish character during the flourishy part
I love this piece, and your playing of it opened new depths of understanding and beauty. Your description of its composition explains why you can offer this perspective to us!
i am stunned! i went to amazon to buy your videos. Sold out! Not surprised. I don't know how I was unaware of you until today. but now that i know i want to see you perform in person! Love your channel! YOU ARE THE BEST!
J'aime beaucoup votre jeu et j'aime aussi vos réflexions et votre présentation de l'œuvre, à la fois personnelle et très pertinente.
thank you for your talent and interpretation. also thank you for your brilliant analysis. I have great admiration for F.Chopin and your text really touched me.
This song-and her performance makes me cry! Inspired me so much-I had to go out and buy the music and learn it for myself! Thanks @ValentinaLisitsa for inspiring me to keep challenging myself and keep growing as a professional musician. You are simply amazing! :)
Ms. Lisitsa, I wonder with complete seriousness how you don't cry while playing so beautifully. Very well done.
loved your comment and interpretation of this amazing piece!!! Congratz Valentina. Looking forward for your next concert in germany.
Super Valentina! Toujours autant de plaisir à vous écouter! Sincères encouragements pour toute votre création et pour toutes les choses de la Vie!
D'accord un mile fois!
Besides the great music I also thoroughly enjoyed Valentina's explanation about its historical origins, "program" music and the importance of Chopin at a time when Poland had disappeared as an independent country. She writes very well, in a simple, conversational style, but giving all her perspective as a musician too. Brava, Valentina, brava! Carry on!
this is bravo! she is like touching and dancing on the keys instead of hitting it or thumpimg on the keys!
Valentina, thanks for that valuable history lesson. It's a sad reflection of time that the strong use the weak for their own devices, I wish it weren't so. At least we have famous artists over time that keep the stories alive in music, picture and word. Thankyou.
Yes, she is playing barefooted. Does that surprise anyone? And, further, I would not be too surprised to find out that she plays the keys with them as well. She is strength and loveliness blended. Dear, thank you for making our lives richer.
Ass kisser.
@ValentinaLisitsa - I listened to this piece when I was 12... made a deep impact in me, but could not remember the composer. 18 years later... I find it played by you (with a great -loved it!!!- written preface).
You truly made my day! You have no idea the expression in my face after finding this "lost piece in my head" 18 years after!
Thank you!!!
I love watching and listening to this woman playing the piano so much.
She is so in trance with what she does, it's unbelievable.
aaand i usually play with my socks on xD hihi
Valentina- I love your detailed descriptions on your recordings. Thanks for uploading Chopin's fantasy- definitely one of my favorites. :)
I also appreciate the interesting info texts like this one here on top!
Thank you for your generosity in letting us into your world when you play via UA-cam and for graciously sharing your knowledge. Thank you for being so very authentic. (Plus, needless to say, you are incredible!)
You have no idea how much I love Chopin's music. Your performance was wonderful. I totally want to learn how to play this now. =)
The best interpretation ever.Thank you very much to share your comments with us...
I own all your cd's...even the very first one 😉
How is Cziffra than?
I'd never heard this piece before today! i love it!! & you played superbly as usual.
Very good, heartfelt interpretation! And I think it's worth mentioning that the cameraman and the recording engineers have done a phenomenal job, too!
Great form and amazing to listen to. Always love the piano.
Brava Valentina - you are by far my favorite pianist, and each new video reminds me exactly why.
Она умеет играть даже босиком. Её музыка завораживает, как и обаятельная внешность. Удачи Вам, Валентина, и успехов в творчестве!
That barefoot performance. This is awesome.
It's actually really nice to have a feel for the pedals. Plus, everyone practices barefoot, so perhaps it should become the norm for performance as well.
Everyone practices barefoot? I have to disagree. She is the first one i see playing barefoot :p
_I_ practice barefoot, and unless you're one of those people who wears their shoes inside their own house (and let's be honest, can they really be classified as _people_?), it's far too inconvenient to put shoes or socks on before having a go at the daily piano routine.
I remember playing barefoot when I was four years old, and the pick-up-and-play quality of the piano made it very accessible to me. Indeed, if I'd had to put shoes on every single time I wanted to practice the instrument or compose, I doubt I'd still be playing today. Come to think of it, I can't think of a single pianist friend of mine who doesn't practice barefoot. So there, myehhh!
+emlmm88 i wear only socks in my house amd well...i dont know anyone who plays barefoot so...i guess you cant say that everyone is doing it ^^
Anime Lover Doesn't it ever feel weird to not feel the pedal though? Try playing without socks, just once. I almost guarantee you'll prefer it after a few hours of getting used to it.
Как же красиво Валентина Лисица играет босиком на фортепиано. Невозможно устроять перед величественностью и грациозностью этих ножек. И перед красотой и обаянием самой пианистки.
Your description is interesting and a good history lesson.Bravo!!
This pianopiece is one of my fovourites and your interpretation is soooooooo good.
many thanks
this girl is incredilbly well marketed, she s all over youtube, no matter what piece you are looking for...!
eric rouach She has recorded so many pieces and they are always so amazing that she gets million views. That's why she is so well positioned on YT :)
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My favorite performance of my favorite piece. Brava!
It's really cool, the comments that you make under some pieces, I like to learn interesting stuff about the composer's life or about the piece itself! Thanks V!
This is truly a wonderful, exquisite performance (as always). Thank you Valentina :-)
Amazing, as always. The description is also very well done. Cheers!
One of my fav Chopin pieces, the last one I was learning at music college, thanks as allways Valentina : )
Sou seguidor assíduo dessa grande pianista. Sempre proporcionando-nos, trabalhos maravilhosos !
Opa. Sempre, ela é demais!
She is the ultimate! Speechless!
Sometimes i aske to myself, wherefore i am onto the world.
When i hear those music, i know why - to hear this music.
Thank you!
Hi Valentina,
I am only new to, if I may say so, Western Classical Music - baby steps.
I loved your Liszt recordings and have started with Chopin now. The passage you have written down in the "description" section is very very good (though not as good as the music itself is played).
Thanks for all the music you have made live here.
Thanks!
love your interpretation and the comment you wrote about the song! :)
Great performance
Oddly, this piece is livening and ordering my mind while writing a tooth-pull of an essay (on the dullest of subjects).
Must be magic.
One of my favorite pieces.
Aparte de que eres una pianista impresionante, eres una interprete magnífica de una gran elegancia interpretando...TE FELICITO......
Te he conocido por esta red y me has impactado.
FELIZ NAVIDAD
Saludos cordiales...desde Barcelona
Волшебная игра! Валентина, Вы волшебница! Дай Вам Бог здоровья!
Спасибо Валентине Лисице за её талант!
simplemente me encanta como eres de expresiva en todo y eso es lo q hace la verdadera musica q la sientas y hagas q la gente la sienta!!
tout est magnifique dans la façon dont vous mettez littéralement en scène vos mains sur le clavier, la musique est extraordinaire, une très belle oeuvre de Chopin, mais vous l'habillez d'un prestige inégalable, celui de votre présence et votre talent. Tout est beau dans cette séquence, à commencer par l'interprète. Bravo une fois de plus.
So lovely and amazing!
muito bonito.... incrivel!!!
i enjoy you playing. You play with panache and conviction. I have enjoyed "getting to know you" via u tube. You seem like a lovely person. i recall however, playing for a jury, who where commenting on the scope of my concerto repetoire. i commented that " i don't find the Brahms (B flat) difficult. I quickly learned that this is a quick way to be toppled from what I perceived to be my throne.
i'm in the middle of learning this---its one of my Chopin favorites. it's definitely a tough song to play...gosh, how do you get so good? Definitely best interpretation/ performance of this song iv seen so far. Love your videos---You are truly one of the best pianists (if not the best) out there.
@ValentinaLisitsa I literally fell in love with you :) too bad you're already married
Keep uploading videos I enjoy so much watching them! And I love your way of playing!!
Hi, Valentina.. I had the delight of hearing you play this piece in Buenos Aires, at the Colon Theatre. You've captured all the emotions of this piece and delivered it from your heart to your fingers which beautifully set every emotion free, for us to enjoy it, for us to taste it, for us to feel it and to breathe it in the air...That was so intense...When are you coming back to Argentina? I hope you’ll do it soon. I'm looking forward to hearing you play live again. Best wishes, Georgeu.
Awesome and interesting reading once again. I agree on detailed programs that can become dated. It happened in some parts of Pink Floyd last Waters-leaded album "The Final Cut" with names of presidents and other historic figures of around 1983. Anyway I prefer Liszt to Chopin ... as I adore "The Final Cut" ^_^ Sorry, I couldn't resist, lol. Keep playing in such a wonderful way Valentina ! (And please come to Italy ^_^)
half the stuff you do with your technique, my piano teacher tells me not to do. WHY CANT I PLAY LIKE YOU *sobs*
magnifique!!!
...she wear not SHOES, ???!!! Valentina always surprising, in many ways! And see Her fingers playing piano! WOWWW!
@maaanny16 i gasped when i read fantasie but then i saw it was f minor :( but still great valentina! please please please c-sharp minor! i learned that this summer and really want to hear you play it! there are not many good recordings of that and im sure u will be no. 1!!! keep it up :D
Valentina Lisitsa...Wonderful!!
Quanto mais a conheço, mais me impressiono. Bravo Lisitsa!
My deepest respects Madam...
awesome play!
@theoryman1 yes, you're right!! there are only 3 measures of the arpeggios at that part and she did indeed play 4...It's an inconsistent repetition from before and it's easy to miss. I admit that I had to pay special attention to it when I started to memorize it. I really hope she catches that mistake and fixes it before she performs it again!
something about the triumphal moment beginning at 5:20...
one of the most moving pieces of all!
Una maravilla gracias.
This is so beautiful
Bravo bravo bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic super
Beautiful piece, powerful playing. The "history lesson" added to my appreciation of it. The videography is inspired too...and are you playing BAREFOOTED?!?
3:20 - 3:49 is really really good, how could one get the inspiration to compose such passage?
This is honestly the most beautiful cover of this song that I’ve heard in my whole life and it’s truly phenomenal how your fingers glide on those ivory’s and just go with it, it’s truly amazing! I’d love to know, what was the first song you ever learned?
The guillotine strike is in the 4'th movement of the symphony fantastique. 3'rd movement is the scene in the country. Regardless, this is a marvelous interpretation of the f minor fantasy by Chopin.
How does she remember all those notes? I don't remember what I did last Monday and I'm 34. Fantastic performance.
Beginnings, passion, desire, ambition, talent and teaching....continuing.
I think in one of her interviews she said she has a photographic memory
memorizing the notes is one of the easiest parts
I am playing 11 piecd now some of them 5 min others 3 or 2 minutes. Its just a matter of repition and practice ;)
Freddy Fazbear indeed, it is
Te amo Valentina, te amo.
Beleza mágica !!!!!!!!!!!!
Italy needs such piano performances... will you come here in Rome one day?
Oh!! I almost loved your interpretation! Everything was going perfect until the very last moment before the ending; the part with only the right hand playing C - Eb - C - Bb - Ab. Why did you left the pedal!!?? I respect your decision, I just think it doesn't work like that. But thank you so much for your performance!
I think i am in love
You are the best pianist in the world
Incredible piece and incredible interpretation
you have soul, Valentina :) you bring this music alive for me, and am glad to see you like playing barefoot too :)
WOW YOU ARE AWSOME LOT OF RESPECT YOU RE THE MASTER
I'm struggling to decide if I like this or Ballade no. 4 better. So conflicted!
Beautiful rendition.
no need to choose?
I had the honor of hearing this LIVE on Buenos Aires (it was my honeymoon! :D) and was even more breathtaking. I hope that you upload the Rondeau Fantastique that you perform, better than anything else on youtube
Kind Regards from Chile
PS: could you ever do Bach's Italian Concerto? I would love if your fingers could bless us all with that piece
Hi MIke Karren--I appreciate your attempt at historical accuracy. I think that you still might have your sisters mixed up. It was his older sister Ludwicka who was with him when he died and was able to smuggle his heart back into Poland. The issue of TB or CF is unresolved--I'd be surprised that someone with CF in those days would have been able to live so long! Perhaps it sounds catty to say it, but Liszt had the advantage of living longer than most of his contemporaries, so he was able to draw on the genius of others in his later compositions. It's true of Haydn, too--some of his greatest.works were written after Mozart passed away.
jegraham440
Chopin expressed his Polish nationalism many times through his music
Valentina, I wish you could put up some slow motion videos on these Chopin/Liszt pieces (especially etudes) so we trying hard students could better study your movements.
@carlhopkinson if the videos are in uncompressed or low compressed form, in 60P which some domestic digital cameras can do you will see most of it with careful observation, but it would need more bandwidth and storage I think that Google/UA-cam would care for I think.
I am recently learning Liszt's Funerailles and reading what you wrote in the description box inspired me, it is very hard to play this piece and at the same time detach yourself from the history behind it. In this case Liszt's dedication to his countryman that perished during the revolution or as other suggest a dedication to his friend Chopin since he wrote October 1849 on the original manuscript. I guess I will think about Chopin while playing this the Funerailles :)
Is she playing without any shoes ? haha
*sigh* That's not what he meant. It's not about who's better, or who's worse....think it about it.
Some people are just so simple-minded that they think music comes down to who can play it better, it's a shame really...
version with animated score: ua-cam.com/video/v-2wuHjVew4/v-deo.html
Jeeze! What a video! And what a text! Thank you, everybody should write such musical-historical contexts when posting a music video. And everybody should play like you ^^ I bow before you Valentina, once again