It's fascinating that Chopin wrote such a piece in his era.. which is truly years (maybe a whole century) ahead of its time - the repeating left hand chords, the complex chord voicing and harmonic changes he reaches with his right, the modern dreamy mood, the clear structure - while still making it come off like an "on-the-spot" improvisation.. Pieces like Gymnopédie No. 1 by Satie and Bill Evans' Peace Piece are basically just a continuation of what Chopin did here. His ability to predict such future "trends" is what makes him a giant among all composers, a true authentic genius, and a huge influence over the next centuries of music.
As it's a lullaby I'm inclined to think the repeating bass notes are inspired by a nursery rhyme, or perhaps a child's music box which he may have come across when he wrote the piece in a friends home in 1844. Being a tune 'to be played to a sleepy child' the repeating bass obviously makes perfect sense as it's enveloping and soothing and not too stimulating. The tempo and rhythm here though which is faster than other examples really does give a music box feel although it also invokes a swinging cradle. The right hand is sublime, like splashes onto a still pool, but the tempo rises a bit too much for me in the middle, the cradle will be off it's hinges at this rate and the baby rudely awoken. I don't know a lot of Chopin's music but agree this is so Satie, Gnossiennes were only 40 years later but still Chopin clearly led the way.
I see much thought - possibly a good part of your lifetime - can be found in and behind your comment here. I'm listening. Thank you for pulling these words together 0:14 . A joy.
Absolutely exquisite pianist. She is a master at breathing life from a repetitive left-hand as I believe was Chopin's intention. This is no sleep aid for insomniacs! It's a tonic to quiet a restless soul.
I read that Chopin said something like "after playing so many notes for so long that simplicity is where beautiful music lies or something to that effect. After I read I thought, Wow! Chopin, whose music could be so technically challenging and complex, would say that, but i can see and hear that concept in some of his work. I think some pieces are so choked with all the technique and embellishments that the main idea, melody, is crying out to be heard.
danny taylor the quote you’re looking for is ‘Simplicity if the highest goal, achievable only when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art’
chopin is always as simple as possible in the way he conveys any given emotion. Pure confidence with no arrogance in sight. He simply doesnt care if you think he is a good composer, he'll fill your ears and mind with childlike wonder regardless. thats my take atleast!
@@dincerekin This is fuckin' fantastic comment. Right to the point. Pianist writing from here. And proud polish citizen - Chopin was a Pole, not French. We had many great warriors and battles during all these years, we had 123 years without been on a map - still our people defend and reclaimend this land. The same during world war 2. But still, at a musician at heart, chopin is the perfect one, and Kopernik for heliocentric theory ;) But we had many more.
This is just wonderful - I love this performance. It is like opening a window and suddenly you realize that spring has come, the light has changed, everything is fresh and wonderful, crystal clear.
Chopin is the single greatest composer of piano music.. its staggeringly beautiful and complex and brings so much detailed story telling to his music.. its just splendid and I am a huge fan of yours Valentina. May you continue sharing the gift with the world and inspiring us so very much!
My absolute favourite piece of music. I think Chopin wrote dances for fingers and watching this performer confirms exactly that. I simply melt when I hear this piece of music - especially played as beautifully as this. Bravo!
i’m a 17 year old aspiring pianist, you inspire me so much! i love chopin’s pieces more than anything, i’m currently trying to learnt this one. you’re an amazing and beautiful performer :)
hello Valentina Lisitsa. thanks for shaking off my veil of ignorance, and showing me a bit of the immense beauty that is possible in this world. bravo!
After searching for some other performances of this wonderful masterpiece I was surprised that most of them last about 4’45 minutes or more, what is much slower than this version. At first I thought Valentina takes it too fast, but after a couple of concentrated hearings I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a very appropriate timing, she discloses all the hues and nuances of the work with great deepness and intensity. After all, a berceuse needs to evoke clearly the movement of the cradle, that soft swing that transport us to a reverie atmosphere. I’d dare to say some other players induce the slumber through monotony and boredom, while this superb artist brings it to us through a pure sense of tender pleasure and satisfaction. Bravo, Valentina!
@@ValentinaLisitsaQOR Thank you for your answer. I've listened Hofmann's version and I'm glad you didn't go so far in speed. He has personality and command, but I think that his playing lacks the tenderness we expect in a cradle song.
I can't ever imagine getting bored by this, its the most beautiful piece of music and Valentina plays it so well.....it sends a shiver down my spine every time I hear it (which I make sure is quite often)
I've just started learning piano as a self study a month ago, so I am playing this simplified piece in G Minor and was proud of myself that I put two hands together with the relatively good speed, and then I saw Valentina playing it in original D-flat Major!!! So inspiriting and unreachable at the same time! She is just amazing!
Just when I thought Erik Satie's works would be great for setting my nights up for bedtime, I chanced upon this piece and it had overturned my expectations for the perfect bedtime accompaniment. Erik's music has this subtly unsettling, restless and almost dark vibe to his sparse compositions, but this lullaby composed by Chopin just disarms you completely and compels you to float away and along with its gliding notes.
I listen to this every single night. I have PTSD and it is always hard to sleep, but this calms me. and I will only listen to Valentina's version. thank you for playing me to sleep and making the passage into my dreams feel safe
I am not sure that I am the only one that feel the sentiment of this piece and deep inside me feel like crying as I could perceive the loneliness inside the heart of this polish composer. The portrayal of the melody is really of a bit of bitterness inside as many know as melancholia.
I was hesitant when I saw the comments regarding the speed...but it's Valentina...she never disappoints. Incredible technical mastery. I love this rendition. It's fresh, it's vital. I love its fadings to slow nothingness. Mastery. Wow.
You remember me this wonderful young cat I meet today. It was so playful and tender always looking for more caress and more game. A wonderful time, a musical time very much like a berceuse. Thanks!
Thank you, Valentina. Your performance of this piece is at once serene and stirring. Absolutely captivating and impossible to stop watching. I find new things I love about it each time I listen to it.
I love you because of this. I personally believe this piece sounds ten times better when played at the speed in which you play it here. You are truly an inspiration to me.
Are you serious? Today was my FIRST time ever watching a You Tube video with classical music which i occasionally listen to, and I am just recently learning to play piano. I am completely IN LOVE with your videos, your playing style, and your renditions of these songs!!! I am seriously a huge fan!!!
You know your music history! I love it how knowledgeable you are of the pieces you play, how you take the time to explain it's history to us, and what they were called before it was changed to something else. I think it's funny how pple wine and cry about how fast you play and little do they know that is exactly how you ought to do it.....I enjoy watching how fast but smooth your hands "go". haha...thank you!
This song gives me a weird deja vu feeling. I'll try to explain it in the best way I can. The beginning of the song feels so sad yet happy, it's like reassuring you that even the saddest times will end. And then as the song progresses, the tune starts getting drowned by the rapid notes, trying to make your worries swivel away... At the end of the song, it starts becoming more and more soothing, retaining the first tune in the beginning of the song. Overall, it's a really calm and nostalgic song.
in my eyes with every song shez plays wether beethoven on chopin she brings so much emotion out with in every piece she piece, valentina you brought a tear to my eye, you are the best xxx thank you for sharing ur talent with the world
@ValentinaLisitsa Having your idols answering all your questions and giving you feedback on your life decision is such a privilege, thank you so much for being this audience friendly!
To those who say much too fast, I would point to Rosenthal's recording which comes in at 3:56 or so. Rosenthal studied with Mikuli, who was a pupil of Chopin's, and also with Liszt (who knew Chopin's playing style intimately as the two had been friends at one point). Koczalski, another Mikuli pupil, also comes in at around the same tempo, at 4:12. One has to believe that, given the similarity in their speeds, this must be in the right ballpark and is almost certainly handed down from Chopin himself. Too often Chopin is played too slowly, which may enhance the audibility of the felicities in his scoring, but is probably not the way the composer himself played.
I know I might sound ridiculous, but this piece is a misnomer. It isn't a lullaby. It should be played at this speed. Simply exquisite at this speed. I can't sum up its magic but I don't think I'll ever understand a person's capacity to be able to fall asleep (wtf) to this piece. It makes you want to dream more but live to fulfil them at the same time.
Absolutely breathtaking... I will never get tired of listening to her play this Berceuse. It is so delicate, so light, and yet so technically demanding... (at least, for us mere mortals!).
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely heavenly. No wonder Chopin was voted Top Composer by Telephone Poll on ABCFM Classical Radio Perth on 97.7fm some years ago. He does play around up and down with the chromatic scale. Brilliant!
The ending of this piece is indescribably beautiful... but I’ll try anyways - the music gently winds down, until the last two chords are nothing more than a whisper. The long pause before the very last note makes me catch my breath, but also makes the last chord all the more beautiful. It brings tears to my eyes and a pit in my stomach.
My eyes became full of tears watching this awesome Chopin interpretation. What a feeling, what a technique... Get this "like" for you and this "subscribe". You're an inspiration.
You play with such finesse and tempo is spot on, your interpretations are the best of all pianist I have heard and this is not exception. I would love to see you play more Beethoven sonatas since you are just brilliant at them. :)
My daughter is 7yo and currently doing grd 8, and she can't have enough of watching this and the rest of your works! Just would like to say thank you for such an inspiration to her (also to me:). Awesome!!
Valentina... you're fantastic... I'm an italian piano student in Rome Conservatory, I'm 15 and I'm your bigger italian fan!!! :-) I love your hands...your musical thoughts...your golden hair :) Thank you so much for all your video and I hope to see you soon in Rome :( ... A hug from Rome, Antonio :)
1'47" wow! It just glitters! What a lovely performance and SOUND. This is one of the lesser known Chopin pieces, but undeservedly. I think it is just gorgeous in it's 'simplicity' and elegant virtuosity. She makes it sound do darned easy!! NOT FAIR!
Such a wonderful use of counter rhythm.....left hand keeping a moderate metronomic pace as a flurry of sparks of embers give way to fast melodic and fiery emissions in the right hand passages.
She plays it the same tempo as Sapellnikov, a student of Sophie Menter, who was a student of Liszt. Very similar to Michelangeli and Rubenstein also. I like her tempo.
Absolutely sublime playing and music. You play this so lightly, just as a lullaby should sound. Your piano is exquisite, so very musical. Must be a joy to play, as well. Thank you!!
To me, Lisitsa is the Itzhak Perlman of pianists -- which is to say that she is the best combination of getting the notes right and also playing with feeling. Almost like a feather floating across the keys. A joy to listen to.
It's fascinating that Chopin wrote such a piece in his era.. which is truly years (maybe a whole century) ahead of its time - the repeating left hand chords, the complex chord voicing and harmonic changes he reaches with his right, the modern dreamy mood, the clear structure - while still making it come off like an "on-the-spot" improvisation.. Pieces like Gymnopédie No. 1 by Satie and Bill Evans' Peace Piece are basically just a continuation of what Chopin did here. His ability to predict such future "trends" is what makes him a giant among all composers, a true authentic genius, and a huge influence over the next centuries of music.
As it's a lullaby I'm inclined to think the repeating bass notes are inspired by a nursery rhyme, or perhaps a child's music box which he may have come across when he wrote the piece in a friends home in 1844. Being a tune 'to be played to a sleepy child' the repeating bass obviously makes perfect sense as it's enveloping and soothing and not too stimulating. The tempo and rhythm here though which is faster than other examples really does give a music box feel although it also invokes a swinging cradle. The right hand is sublime, like splashes onto a still pool, but the tempo rises a bit too much for me in the middle, the cradle will be off it's hinges at this rate and the baby rudely awoken. I don't know a lot of Chopin's music but agree this is so Satie, Gnossiennes were only 40 years later but still Chopin clearly led the way.
asi es la musica de Chopin
I see much thought - possibly a good part of your lifetime - can be found in and behind your comment here. I'm listening. Thank you for pulling these words together 0:14 . A joy.
I have Peace Piece in my collection but until now had never associated it with Chopin. Now every time I play it I will. Thanks
@@benedictearlson9044 Yes, yes and yes! Both well-written and well-put, thank you!
Absolutely exquisite pianist. She is a master at breathing life from a repetitive left-hand as I believe was Chopin's intention. This is no sleep aid for insomniacs! It's a tonic to quiet a restless soul.
Totally agree.
👏
She’s bad at playing
@@ryuzakil1751 Says somebody with an anime pfp
Bruh I play the piano and what does my profile pic have to do with piano lmao moron
It's brilliance in bloom, fingers in fluorescence!
PEOPLE read the description she had less than 5 minutes! Incredible lyricism, control, touch, tone! You are truly an inspiration!
I think this is about how the mind starts to wander as you're falling asleep. Wonderful pianist. God bless Chopin.
I read that Chopin said something like "after playing so many notes for so long that simplicity is where beautiful music lies or something to that effect. After I read I thought, Wow! Chopin, whose music could be so technically challenging and complex, would say that, but i can see and hear that concept in some of his work. I think some pieces are so choked with all the technique and embellishments that the main idea, melody, is crying out to be heard.
danny taylor the quote you’re looking for is ‘Simplicity if the highest goal, achievable only when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art’
chopin is always as simple as possible in the way he conveys any given emotion. Pure confidence with no arrogance in sight. He simply doesnt care if you think he is a good composer, he'll fill your ears and mind with childlike wonder regardless. thats my take atleast!
@@e.hutchence-composer8203 Thank you for the inspritaion and muse brother, fro another mother..
@@dincerekin This is fuckin' fantastic comment. Right to the point. Pianist writing from here. And proud polish citizen - Chopin was a Pole, not French. We had many great warriors and battles during all these years, we had 123 years without been on a map - still our people defend and reclaimend this land. The same during world war 2.
But still, at a musician at heart, chopin is the perfect one, and Kopernik for heliocentric theory ;) But we had many more.
@@tomaszczapiewski3359 His father was French, but Frederic considered himself Polish.
This woman has such agile fingers and seeing her get immersed in the notes is simply a treat to watch.
This is just wonderful - I love this performance.
It is like opening a window and suddenly you realize that spring has come, the light has changed, everything is fresh and wonderful, crystal clear.
This is a good description.
Very apt description.
Chopin is the single greatest composer of piano music.. its staggeringly beautiful and complex and brings so much detailed story telling to his music.. its just splendid and I am a huge fan of yours Valentina. May you continue sharing the gift with the world and inspiring us so very much!
2:03 This part which starts in here sounds like played on two pianos. Such a beautiful composition and performance.
I read Chopin composed this lullaby for a baby (friend or relative) that he loved, the baby brought him joy!
I feel the left hand is rocking the cradle and the right hand represents the contented dreams of the infant child. Exquisite,
My absolute favourite piece of music. I think Chopin wrote dances for fingers and watching this performer confirms exactly that. I simply melt when I hear this piece of music - especially played as beautifully as this. Bravo!
i’m a 17 year old aspiring pianist, you inspire me so much! i love chopin’s pieces more than anything, i’m currently trying to learnt this one. you’re an amazing and beautiful performer :)
My cat loves this song. I turn it on and I can hear him sprinting upstairs to hear it! 😸
+Lily Adams that's so cute omg
I love your cat.
I used to have a dog that reacted the same way to songs by Gordon Lightfoot! :^)
It's a lullaby!
PurrrrrMeow!!!
Excellent performance. This is one of the most gorgeous compositions Chopin ever wrote.
I'm just so glad that there are people who can play like this.
hello Valentina Lisitsa. thanks for shaking off my veil of ignorance, and showing me a bit of the immense beauty that is possible in this world. bravo!
Her hands slither and slide over the keys like they are not there and the sound is flawless. What a phenomenally gifted pianist!
After searching for some other performances of this wonderful masterpiece I was surprised that most of them last about 4’45 minutes or more, what is much slower than this version. At first I thought Valentina takes it too fast, but after a couple of concentrated hearings I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a very appropriate timing, she discloses all the hues and nuances of the work with great deepness and intensity. After all, a berceuse needs to evoke clearly the movement of the cradle, that soft swing that transport us to a reverie atmosphere.
I’d dare to say some other players induce the slumber through monotony and boredom, while this superb artist brings it to us through a pure sense of tender pleasure and satisfaction. Bravo, Valentina!
@@ValentinaLisitsaQOR Thank you for your answer. I've listened Hofmann's version and I'm glad you didn't go so far in speed. He has personality and command, but I think that his playing lacks the tenderness we expect in a cradle song.
The gates of Heaven have been opened and it will be with difficulty that i return to earth after hearing this beautiful piece.
The fluidity of her playing really attracts me. She makes the piano keys look like their made of a silky cloud or something. Quite nice
I can't ever imagine getting bored by this, its the most beautiful piece of music and Valentina plays it so well.....it sends a shiver down my spine every time I hear it (which I make sure is quite often)
Beautiful touch and feel! I love your playing!!! ❤
One of the most hauntingly beautiful sounds that passed through my earholes is this ❤
She has got incredible intonation and pure softness under her fingers. Her music is totally mesmerizing!
I've just started learning piano as a self study a month ago, so I am playing this simplified piece in G Minor and was proud of myself that I put two hands together with the relatively good speed, and then I saw Valentina playing it in original D-flat Major!!! So inspiriting and unreachable at the same time! She is just amazing!
Waltz in A minor is a great piece for early piano. For me, a great intro to playing Chopin.
She makes this look easy and I know it's absolutely not. One of my three favorite pieces, along with Nocturne in E flat and Raindrop.
Raindrop - drop top - smoking on cookie in the hot box ?
she has a fantastic technique! very professional
I just started learning to play this song. Being able to play this would bring me more joy then I could put into words.
Just when I thought Erik Satie's works would be great for setting my nights up for bedtime, I chanced upon this piece and it had overturned my expectations for the perfect bedtime accompaniment. Erik's music has this subtly unsettling, restless and almost dark vibe to his sparse compositions, but this lullaby composed by Chopin just disarms you completely and compels you to float away and along with its gliding notes.
This has got to be one of the all time greatest pieces of music every written
She just glides over the keys, you have to be super-talented to do that.
How do you know?
It’s technique
ling ling
Well, I am 15 and i also play this song :)
@@blubbblubb9741 dude holy crap you're that old? i played this song coming out of my mother's womb
Increrible!! What a performance. This piece makes me feel ways i cant describe. So much elegance and emotion
I listen to this every single night. I have PTSD and it is always hard to sleep, but this calms me. and I will only listen to Valentina's version. thank you for playing me to sleep and making the passage into my dreams feel safe
I am not sure that I am the only one that feel the sentiment of this piece and deep inside me feel like crying as I could perceive the loneliness inside the heart of this polish composer. The portrayal of the melody is really of a bit of bitterness inside as many know as melancholia.
My absolute favorite composition by Copin or any other composer. Simply beautiful. This interpretation is quite beautiful.
This piece is a miracle - not just for its time. And so is her playing of it.
I was hesitant when I saw the comments regarding the speed...but it's Valentina...she never disappoints. Incredible technical mastery. I love this rendition. It's fresh, it's vital. I love its fadings to slow nothingness. Mastery. Wow.
The left hand is the trunk. The right hand, the leaves that swirl in millions ways about the wind. So inspired. Magic. ❤❤❤
Beautiful description! So perfect. 😍
Oh my gosh...how to make Chopin look easy. 25 years and I will never play like you. Utterly inspiring, Thank you. Hannah, x
You remember me this wonderful young cat I meet today. It was so playful and tender always looking for more caress and more game. A wonderful time, a musical time very much like a berceuse. Thanks!
Thank you, Valentina. Your performance of this piece is at once serene and stirring. Absolutely captivating and impossible to stop watching. I find new things I love about it each time I listen to it.
You've surpassed technique and theory, and create beauty each time you sit down at the piano. Please come back to NYC and play Chopin for us!
I always go back to this beautiful piece of haunting music .
I love you because of this. I personally believe this piece sounds ten times better when played at the speed in which you play it here. You are truly an inspiration to me.
Are you serious?
Today was my FIRST time ever watching a You Tube video with classical music which i occasionally listen to, and I am just recently learning to play piano. I am completely IN LOVE with your videos, your playing style, and your renditions of these songs!!!
I am seriously a huge fan!!!
You know your music history! I love it how knowledgeable you are of the pieces you play, how you take the time to explain it's history to us, and what they were called before it was changed to something else.
I think it's funny how pple wine and cry about how fast you play and little do they know that is exactly how you ought to do it.....I enjoy watching how fast but smooth your hands "go". haha...thank you!
That was so beautiful! Glad you were able to include it. 👏🎹
this song is the breath of fresh air you take in at dusk.
Parece que los que se quejan de too fast, no leyeron tu explicación del mínimo tiempo restante. Gracias Valentina!!! Sigues siendo LO MÁXIMO!
One of my favorite Chopin pieces and she does it justice. Amazing pianist.
This song gives me a weird deja vu feeling. I'll try to explain it in the best way I can. The beginning of the song feels so sad yet happy, it's like reassuring you that even the saddest times will end. And then as the song progresses, the tune starts getting drowned by the rapid notes, trying to make your worries swivel away... At the end of the song, it starts becoming more and more soothing, retaining the first tune in the beginning of the song. Overall, it's a really calm and nostalgic song.
Like babies breathing and dreaming in their sleep
in my eyes with every song shez plays wether beethoven on chopin she brings so much emotion out with in every piece she piece,
valentina you brought a tear to my eye, you are the best xxx thank you for sharing ur talent with the world
Quite simply the most beautiful piece of music ever written and wonderfully played
@ValentinaLisitsa Having your idols answering all your questions and giving you feedback on your life decision is such a privilege, thank you so much for being this audience friendly!
i read a really sad story..your music makes me alive...thanks Valentina!!!!!!
To those who say much too fast, I would point to Rosenthal's recording which comes in at 3:56 or so. Rosenthal studied with Mikuli, who was a pupil of Chopin's, and also with Liszt (who knew Chopin's playing style intimately as the two had been friends at one point). Koczalski, another Mikuli pupil, also comes in at around the same tempo, at 4:12. One has to believe that, given the similarity in their speeds, this must be in the right ballpark and is almost certainly handed down from Chopin himself. Too often Chopin is played too slowly, which may enhance the audibility of the felicities in his scoring, but is probably not the way the composer himself played.
I know I might sound ridiculous, but this piece is a misnomer. It isn't a lullaby. It should be played at this speed. Simply exquisite at this speed. I can't sum up its magic but I don't think I'll ever understand a person's capacity to be able to fall asleep (wtf) to this piece. It makes you want to dream more but live to fulfil them at the same time.
It is beautiful to see her fingers in the black of the piano.
Lovely!
Intense melancholy inducing piece played with great skill and sensitivity.
I simply dream off, floating on these waves of fluid music, played with so much attention and care.
Absolutely breathtaking... I will never get tired of listening to her play this Berceuse. It is so delicate, so light, and yet so technically demanding... (at least, for us mere mortals!).
beautiful! I have heard slower versions of that lullaby, but this particular is just about right tempo to me!!!
I am always mesmerized watching your beautiful hands on the keyboard! So much like dancing ballerinas.
So profoundly enchanting and played by a lovely enchantress.
you're derivation of elegance from complexity is positively stunning. ...thank you sharing this most beautiful gift of yours.
Watching her play is like being in a living dream.
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely heavenly. No wonder Chopin was voted Top Composer by Telephone Poll on ABCFM Classical Radio Perth on 97.7fm some years ago. He does play around up and down with the chromatic scale. Brilliant!
“Chopin is the greatest.” That’s what I say every time I hear his music.
One of the best and greatest, that’s why I love learning to play his work and same with his contemporaries.
The ending of this piece is indescribably beautiful... but I’ll try anyways - the music gently winds down, until the last two chords are nothing more than a whisper. The long pause before the very last note makes me catch my breath, but also makes the last chord all the more beautiful. It brings tears to my eyes and a pit in my stomach.
My eyes became full of tears watching this awesome Chopin interpretation. What a feeling, what a technique... Get this "like" for you and this "subscribe". You're an inspiration.
i find it wonderful that you reply to comments and give people advice
This is just one of the most beautiful peices of music played absolutely beautifully, thankyou for sharing it with us
Totally sublime! Three and a half minutes of sheer bliss....Thanks Valentina!
Sooooooo good! She makes it look so easy, her hands float across the keys. Master level stuff.
Absolutely exquisite!
You play with such finesse and tempo is spot on, your interpretations are the best of all pianist I have heard and this is not exception. I would love to see you play more Beethoven sonatas since you are just brilliant at them. :)
My daughter is 7yo and currently doing grd 8, and she can't have enough of watching this and the rest of your works! Just would like to say thank you for such an inspiration to her (also to me:). Awesome!!
Majestic and seemingly effortless performance
¡Que maravilloso oírte, verte y disfrutar de tu interpretación...excelsa! Gracias Valentina.
Fascinating barefoot Chopin, fascinating that this piece again and again will communicate this peaceful mood.
Valentina... you're fantastic... I'm an italian piano student in Rome Conservatory, I'm 15 and I'm your bigger italian fan!!! :-)
I love your hands...your musical thoughts...your golden hair :)
Thank you so much for all your video and I hope to see you soon in Rome :( ...
A hug from Rome,
Antonio :)
For those of you wondering, you pronounce "Berceuse" like "Bear Seuss." just looked it up haha
more like Bear Sirs
\bɛʁ.søz\
Oh dang I thought it was “ver Seuss”
Ber like the e of red and Ceuse like Sseuze
1'47" wow! It just glitters! What a lovely performance and SOUND. This is one of the lesser known Chopin pieces, but undeservedly. I think it is just gorgeous in it's 'simplicity' and elegant virtuosity. She makes it sound do darned easy!! NOT FAIR!
Look how raised her wonderful fingers are, and how she caresses the keys like nobody else!
Wow, you play this so beautifully. It was the song my music teacher analyzed and taught us in college at Swarthmore.
I don't have a favorite Chopin piece, but for me this is at the top of any list I could imagine. To me it is a very under appreciated piece.
Such a wonderful use of counter rhythm.....left hand keeping a moderate metronomic pace as a flurry of sparks of embers give way to fast melodic and fiery emissions in the right hand passages.
That's one of those pieces i cry listening to.
Me as well
I played this at his grave when I was lucky enough to have the chance to go there❤️
A beautiful piece played by a big titan of the piano, thank you so much☺
Great piano technique! Valentina, you are sooooooo talented!
Even if it is played faster than usual, it still sounds super calm and relaxed! Excellent playing!
She plays it the same tempo as Sapellnikov, a student of Sophie Menter, who was a student of Liszt. Very similar to Michelangeli and Rubenstein also. I like her tempo.
@@mntervuren3753agree😊😊
Taehyung love this piece. So beautiful I'm mesmerized 😍
Your playing always looks so effortless and serene, you have very graceful fingers a joy to watch and listen to. X
My very favorite piece of Chopin's.
It's absolutely ethereal.
I find you an inspiration...such a delight to watch is your beautiful technique and sensitive playing!
Thank you.
David - London
Absolutely sublime playing and music. You play this so lightly, just as a lullaby should sound. Your piano is exquisite, so very musical. Must be a joy to play, as well. Thank you!!
You always manage to capture the truly sublime and this glowing portrayal is no exception.
This is a super rich and delicate piece. It's as I consider a ' twice ' baked nocturne dipped in smooth, velvety pianissimo passage work
To me, Lisitsa is the Itzhak Perlman of pianists -- which is to say that she is the best combination of getting the notes right and also playing with feeling. Almost like a feather floating across the keys. A joy to listen to.
One of my favourite pieces and beautifully played