Yeah like that part at 1:49 to 1:57 sounds so different than the others I’ve heard, it’s almost sounds like she hits different keys than others, also the part from 5:14 to 5:18
@@GreyWind1988 because he did a lot of concerts, but Liszt has a lot of beautiful pieces that are not virtosistic too. I love both sides of Liszt but he wasn't only a showoff.
@@GreyWind1988 you can’t really know if he was showing off or did because of his love for his music, you can actually feel the love and devotion he had towards music if you listen Hungarian rhapsody or la Campanella which wasn’t even his composition .
I can't imagine how many countless days/years it takes to master something like this, but the look of absolute ecstasy on her face says it all. This woman is loving what she does. That's all that matters.
It took me half a year (same as Heroic Polonaise) to get it to proper tempo plus another 6 months to polish it to performance level. I prefer Adam Gyorgy’s more steady rendition or maybe CIffra’s.
Tim Countis also true but she’s sometimes so fast she doesn’t even play all the notes, e.g. at 8:10 when she literally smudges the right hand scales, but of course her rendition is overall more tempestuous than, say, Gyorgy.
Domen Sever could you upload it to UA-cam? I want to see it played by You. Also from what age did you start learning piano and how long do you practice each day?
The way her hands play so lightly as if there was no strain on her hands, and the way her fingers flit over the keys so quickly and lightly is so elegant.
She is very good with not tensing up. Thats what allows her to play at such speeds. You can even see it in her biceps, they rapidly flex and relax instead of just staying flexed most of the time. She is optimizing her energy very well to be able to play at this speed. Shoulders relaxed, hands relaxed. You can get much faster explosive speed that way compared to being tense all the time.
That is completely trivial and comes naturally with any difficult piece. But even then, if you know it by heart, there's still a _loooong_ phase of still having to focus on the technique, difficult parts etc. Most hobbyists get stuck in this phase.
I think she played it enough, so I’m sure she memorizes easily. It’s crazy because it seems like she has so much experience with this piece it seems like she played it since birth😂
Has anyone noticed how happy she is playing this? There are multiple camera angles where it is just her smiling. This is probably the best performance of this piece I have ever seen, because until the time machine is invented, I will never see Liszt play.
I love watching her face as she plays. You can tell she absolutely loves what she does. She not only has a technical grasp of the music she plays, she also has emotional attachment as well.
this is completely insane. her hands move so fast you can barely tell which keys she's pressing, it looks like they don't even touch the keys. i'm speechless
I am an intermediate amateur and even I can do that, it's not that hard. The hard part is to deliver flawlessly, which is lightyears ahead of just playing fast.
The piano says: Valentina approaches; 'Oh shit..' Just a thought. Imagine writing this piece of music..... Imagine not being some future interpreter, but the instigator, the composer. Thats the level beyond.
This was the performance that brought me into classical at the age of 12. Now i am 16, play the piano and am completely in love withthe music of Schumann and Bach. Returning to this video gives me so many memories of where my obsession began and how my taste changed over the years.
As a pianist I agree with you. Amazing technique. What people don't always realize is that to accomplish these pieces at such high technical and mature emotionally, first both sides of the brain is being used simultaneously. Second, to achieve the dexterity in the fingers takes years and thousands if not tens of thousands of hours practicing over and over, increasing the mm a notch each day so that your fingers glide effortlessly across the keys. Thirdly, also takes the ability to change emotions as to convey the story you are weaving on the piano. There was s so much more than most people realize. Amazing performance.
Thanks - that sometimes we feel too alone when there are no affinity buddies in sight. I am not a musician, but anyway was impressed by what I was calling 'the harmony of execution'. Your «both sides of the brain» helped me in having a more precise idea. But, again, I'll stick to 'harmony' since for me it is more a question of feeling the harmony of sound than feeling emotions, though I know that it is all connected. Could be because I got polarized by the difference in interpretations, where the world-known ones, with great technical skills, miss completely the 'harmonic feeling'. Among them the very known LL, that to me seems just an extremely fast piano typist.
This piece is a lost song from my childhood. This was the last song my father ever learned on our old piano. I remember being a toddler sitting on his lap watching him. My sister and I dancing like ballerinas in the backround. It blows my mind that as soon as i heard the first 2 notes of this song, i stopped breathing. I couldn’t believe my ears. Instantly began to cry as soon as i realized it was the SONG! I instantly sent it to my sister saying “ I FOUND IT”!
The long pause at 5:03 really nails it. I had watched so many other players doing this rhapsody and none of them made any sense; all sounded like schizophrenic incoherent performances. Now Valentian's pause finally made sense of the whole thing. There is a transition of mood that all other players didn't capture.
22 months after sitting down and committing to learning this piece, I can play 120 measures at roughly 85% this tempo. I can play nearly the whole thing at half tempo. I’m looking forward to uploading my performance in 2020.
I watched Valentina playing this piece live in September 2022 at Sala São Paulo - Brazil, it was the most impressive thing i've ever seen in my life, I couldn't hold back the emotions, it made me feel so emotional I cried a lot and had goosebumps the whole concert, it was magical. And then I had the opportunity of meeting her in person, she was so sweet to all the Brazilian fans. ❤️
I've been playing piano since I was 6, and I'm 39 now...and this remains one of the most difficult pieces I've ever played. She makes it look effortless.
technical difficulties of this piece include: super fast passages nonstop leaps that sometimes exceed 2 octaves fast octaves in both hands simultaneously fast chords extremely fast scales in one hand and big jumps in the other, occurring simultaneously melody paired with trills physical strength repeated notes repeated notes paired with some other melody edit: thanks for 500 likes!
It is incredibly impressive how she not only has mastered the technical aspect of this, but also managed to simultaneously communicate a full spectrum of emotions that really draws one in, all while making it look so effortless and her face exposing how much she is truly enjoying it! Her passion shines and she is absolutely amazing 🤍
Ulli Meinhof o I can only agree...what an profoundly and overwhelmingly gifted artist (how fortunate we are to be able to appreciate, in amazement, once such good good musicianship) o
This music stirs something up in my european soul, it is a mix of greatness , tremendous suffering , setbacks ,pain but also powerful, beauty, ,playfull , joyfulness and self confidence.
1. This is absolutely my favorite classical performance by any artist on any instrument 2. Her hands were moving so fast in the middle that it almost seemed like a big joke, not intentional. A nearly psychotic level of playing. 3. What’s more daunting is that Liszt actually intentionally wrote this. He dreamed to extract from the piano as much as humanly possible. Will anyone ever extract more?
@@switterbeet this is on the very edge of the realm of possible, as a not genetically enhanced human. I would guess with no genetic engeneering no natural born human will ever surpass this level of skill.
She is the master. Unbelievable skill she is like a freak of nature. She can play so many pieces of music on the top of her head without having to read the music from a sheet. Virtuoso at its highest level. The best
She also has just the right bone structure. Liszt was noted for writing pieces that required extended reach, he had very large hands. She can get it done. Love it.
I'm going to assume you don't play piano or a musical instrument so, it's actually easier to play without the music sheet once you've practiced enough, you yourself as well as your fingers memorize the song pretty well, you remember the rythm and what comes next and your fingers have their muscle memory. Combine that with an insane amount of talent and practice and you get this.
@@thezerbs872 I can play the intro of The Entertainer and that's about as far as it goes for me haha I don't have much idea on how to play the piano whatsoever just I do find this performance absolutely breathtaking it's amazing to watch and listen too.
@@thezerbs872 I still need the sheet music as a reference even I already master the piece, especially the longer ones. Sometimes I forget what's next quite often. I don't read the notes, but see which part, formation of the notes and how it should be played.
@@alna9681 I have examined his comment above. And, under cultural subjects I found that your explanation has probability to be correct. Thank you for your effort.
I personally think 9:10 is extremely impressive. I've heard a lot of pianists try to play this (including myself) and either make it too slow, or too mushy. Valentina plays it incredibly clear and hastily while still retaining quality and the composers intention for it to be played. She is a remarkable pianist no matter what any critic says.
Yes I noticed that too. Liszt probably meant this to sound a bit edgy, like maybe the wrong note was hit, and many people just assume that it's the pianist. It is not. It's the art of the piece and requires something special to achieve.
This is a perfect example of how a musician makes the instrument an extension of themselves and how to make it "sing". You can see the emotion start from within her, move down her arms to her hands and fingers then to the keyboard. She's made the piano part of her. The joy in her face says it all.
Woody Woodpecker was an episode with this song too... He is tunning a piano and a thief shows up and wants to hide in there. "Convict Concerto" the name of the episode.
As a newbie piano player getting their first meaningful insights into the higher levels of mastery, this is just mindblowing, and kicks my inspiration and motivation into overdrive. I imagine only the very pinnacle of players are even willing to devote the blood, sweat, tears and pure magic that it takes to achieve playing similar to this. Not just the technical difficulty, but the absolute grace, fierce power, keen precision, and depth of soul and emotion - stunning!
5:05 pure magic. Followed by pure joy of playing drifting more and more into the pure insanity. I wonder how often she went through this until she achieved this level of perfection.
Well, I ran out of words to describe this performance. This is absolutely unreal and magical, and I'm so lucky to get to watch this legendary performance!!!
I personally would appreciate a calmer, slower version of the second half and a slightly quicker version of parts of the first half. however, this seems like a demonstration of skill, not an attempt to make the piece pleasing to the ear, so I'm not too mad. she's the composer's (?) descendent, she's got everything to prove in playing his piece as impressively as possible
Valentina is absolutely CRAZY! This performance is, by no means, a perfect representation of what Franz Liszt intended when he wrote the sheet music for this rhapsody, but I desperately want to believe that it would make Franz absolutely ecstatic to hear someone having so much fun while playing one of his pieces of music. Her performance is so whimsical and brave. God I love it!
Sorry-not-sorry but: even if you had a 'perfect representation of what Franz Liszt intended' written down and signed by him (which you don't, and are therefore make-believing your way into his mind), it wouldn't be useful even to inform the arbitrary ideals of performance ethics you seem to be pursuing. His genius was in musical composition and performance, not explaining himself.
cf the excellent anecdote about Beethoven being asked to 'explain the meaning behind' his Eroica after a performance. He just snorted, said nothing, and started playing it again on the piano. Or Mendelssohn's wonderful quote about the futility of trying to translate musical intentionality with language: "The feelings aroused in me when listening to music that I love are not too indefinite to put into words; they are, in contrast, *too definite*."
truered lucky yup. Both Franz Liszt (piano) and Niccoló Paganini (violin) were considered the world’s first “superstars” in the modern sense of the word, mainly because of the effect they’ve had on their audiences. There was a phenomenon called “Lisztomania” where women would attend Liszt’s live concerts and faint and squeal with delight and excitement, and apparently no one at the time really knew why.
I am perfectly willing to die now. There can be nothing more beautiful than this! I now meet my maker with sheer bliss. This is perfection. Mr. Liszt would be envious of Ms. Lisztsista's rendition of his work. God bless you, Valentina, and thank you for this!
She is my great great great great granddaughter
Franz Liszt Oh dear.
@@keyyf7039 LOL
@@keyyf7039 Hi!
xLxszt CH Hello there.
Too funny. :)
Little-known fact: the energy generated by her fingers during this performance powered the lights in the concert hall for the next 17 months.
Ahahahaah fuck no
Hahahah , you made my day man !
Ha ha, great...
i would not want to be a lesbian with her
Ha ha ha ha. That's funny...
You watch her and you think how can she even play this? Then you think, how can some one even write this?
Step 1: be Franz Liszt
Step 2: Cry because you´re not Franz Liszt
felix villarreal step 3: Give up and play the flute
Step 4: Call a suicidal help-line, so that you don't do that.
Step 5: Eat everything in the house because you tried and hey that's good enough you deserve it as you sit there crying because you failed
Saw this 12 years ago and still haven't seen another performance of Hungarian rhapsody no.2 better.
Rousseau’s was also great.
Yeah like that part at 1:49 to 1:57 sounds so different than the others I’ve heard, it’s almost sounds like she hits different keys than others, also the part from 5:14 to 5:18
Лучший - Гилельс!
Bro there is traum piano and if you want to know, she do a lot of weird notes
maybe czifra
Scientists: Nothing can travel faster than light
Valentina: Hold my vodka
move*
Checkmate, atheists
hahahahahaha
Lmao
lol
Best part is how much fun she looked to be having.
Once you actually learn this piece, it is so fun to play. It's just getting there is really hard. Franz Liszt was kind of a showoff
@@GreyWind1988
I feel the same about playing 'Blame It On The Rain' drum.
@@GreyWind1988 because he did a lot of concerts, but Liszt has a lot of beautiful pieces that are not virtosistic too. I love both sides of Liszt but he wasn't only a showoff.
Not at the last few seconds. Her forearms were probably dying. I'm a pianist, I know how bad the forearms ache by the end of a song lol
@@GreyWind1988 you can’t really know if he was showing off or did because of his love for his music, you can actually feel the love and devotion he had towards music if you listen Hungarian rhapsody or la Campanella which wasn’t even his composition .
Liszt is typically known for his early beginner pieces like this
Take a few online lessons, chill, and there's nothing to easy stuff like this.
Yea man, La Campanella was also a classic
Mark Fowler it’s a joke bruf
Mark Fowler op was telling a joke.
Mark Fowler it was a joke dude calm down
Legend says the piano never forgot her. You can still find it roaming the streets aimlessly, trying to find Valentina.
If it’s trying to find Valentina, then it won’t be roaming aimlessly cuz finding Valentina is it’s aim
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA good one
Lol
We're so blessed to live in an era where we can listen to this world class pianist right here.
Same shit for the people in the 18th century
No, very few people in the 1800s could have heard this.
I think you meant to say, “people are so blessed to have lived in an era where they could listen to the world class pianist(Franz Liszt) right there”
At least a mouse wasn't hiding in the piano to ruin it again.
@@SleepyWeasle Cat Concerto!
Even the piano is wondering wtf is happening
good one ha ha ha
...and thinking: WOW! I didn't even know it was in me all the time!
Waterfalls
it's Tom and Jerry fighting :))
LOL !! Thanks for that ... I just spewed coffee all over the computer monitor
0:00 - 5:09 me the whole exam
5:09 - 9:45 *sees clock* *only 5 mins left*
LoL
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL its not funny
Like this one
@@part4963 lol y u trippin
Glen Caleb thank to you, I can skip to my favorite part😂👌
The way she moves her hands is unreal, truly incredible.
és ezt Tom macska 8 ujjal tudta😂
I can't imagine how many countless days/years it takes to master something like this, but the look of absolute ecstasy on her face says it all. This woman is loving what she does. That's all that matters.
Yep. Even the hardest things could be easily done if you like it.
It took me half a year (same as Heroic Polonaise) to get it to proper tempo plus another 6 months to polish it to performance level. I prefer Adam Gyorgy’s more steady rendition or maybe CIffra’s.
Tim Countis also true but she’s sometimes so fast she doesn’t even play all the notes, e.g. at 8:10 when she literally smudges the right hand scales, but of course her rendition is overall more tempestuous than, say, Gyorgy.
Domen Sever could you upload it to UA-cam? I want to see it played by You. Also from what age did you start learning piano and how long do you practice each day?
Mateusz Loniewski check out my instagram profile for my recordings: @dominicvansever 😜
When she's faster than your internet
*cries in third world*
Loool cries in third world
almost had a heart attack! bahahahahha!
I feel you bruh
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
cries in german, wait is that legal yet?
The way her hands play so lightly as if there was no strain on her hands, and the way her fingers flit over the keys so quickly and lightly is so elegant.
She is very good with not tensing up. Thats what allows her to play at such speeds. You can even see it in her biceps, they rapidly flex and relax instead of just staying flexed most of the time. She is optimizing her energy very well to be able to play at this speed.
Shoulders relaxed, hands relaxed. You can get much faster explosive speed that way compared to being tense all the time.
It's the Russian Piano School technique. The first thing kids learn is how to relax the wrist and arm.
yeah i’m like in awe her touch with the piano at some points looks like she’s caressing it to play the notes
not only is her technique impeccable, her bicep and forearm muscles are also very strong!
I missed anyone else mentioning that the piece is committed to her memory, no sheet music to flip through, so she has full emotional focus. Love it.
Yes, that is typical of a pianist playing a piece, especially one of this difficulty
That is completely trivial and comes naturally with any difficult piece.
But even then, if you know it by heart, there's still a _loooong_ phase of still having to focus on the technique, difficult parts etc. Most hobbyists get stuck in this phase.
I think it’s easier that way.
I think she played it enough, so I’m sure she memorizes easily. It’s crazy because it seems like she has so much experience with this piece it seems like she played it since birth😂
It's not shit music. Respect lizt's music! It's good music.
Has anyone noticed how happy she is playing this? There are multiple camera angles where it is just her smiling. This is probably the best performance of this piece I have ever seen, because until the time machine is invented, I will never see Liszt play.
Or some successful necromancy.
Or maybe you are looking at Liszt in this video
Looks like she enjoy the challenge :D
Yes the smiling is wonderful. Martha Argerich also does that and it seems almost enchanting to me. Just a wonderful experience.
If I can play this piece I will die smiling whatever killed me
I feel blessed that I can listen to this as many times as I want.
Glory to God
@@ToyotaGuy1971 no, Glory to Google.
@@silverblack78 May God bless you, Sergio.
@@ToyotaGuy1971 thank you buddy, I appreciate!
@@ToyotaGuy1971 may google bless you, toyota guy
I love watching her face as she plays. You can tell she absolutely loves what she does. She not only has a technical grasp of the music she plays, she also has emotional attachment as well.
It was like seeing the Goddess of music herself playing the piano: "Ah, yes. Just like that day..."
300 likes. Kudos.
yes
True talent and passion
SIMPPP
this is completely insane. her hands move so fast you can barely tell which keys she's pressing, it looks like they don't even touch the keys. i'm speechless
its a thing to say whoever invented the piano did such a good job that it can keep up with her fingers.. thanks, V!~
Same here ❤❤❤❤Love
Mostly F Sharp and C Sharp will be pressed
And she memorized every single note.
I am an intermediate amateur and even I can do that, it's not that hard. The hard part is to deliver flawlessly, which is lightyears ahead of just playing fast.
How many days do you practice in an hour?
I really hope this is a joke
cherrybabe ...no shit
I think at least 2 days in an hour
@@manmeetsingh4719 Remember she practices 40 hours in a day, so she practices at least 80 hours in an hour
Maybe she's the piano counterpart of ling ling
Camera: I have the have best frame rate
Franz List: *Hold my beer*
Lol
The beer mentioned in this anecdote was an ice cold bottle of Stella Artois, bit of trivia for you.
I literally laughed out loud reading that. Very nice
Therapist:Franz Liszt is dead he cant hurt you
Me: Looking at Hungarian Rhapsody No.2's Music Sheet
I’m laughing way too hard at this. I think about this when I play rachminoff
@@ClassicalPianoisMyJam Do you mean Rachmaninow?
Ha, now look at Erlkonig.
"Let me intoduce my friend, carpal tunnelling"
@@ogthekingofbashan333 there are so many more pieces that are exceptionally more difficult than Erlkonig, Idk why youd mention that of all things.
The best part is that she looks like she is genuinely having pure fun.
It is a fun piece says someone who can play it full
@@randomkidbelkke12how much time it occurs to learn Hungarian Rhapsody?
I cant hit the wrong keys that fast
😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂............ 😭
Ahahahahahahah
If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly
@@0ros3t iF yOu CaN pLaY iT sLoWlY, yOu CaN pLaY iT qUiCkLy
they are not wrong keys if you play free jazz
2.7 thousand dislikes?
Must be the piano tuners' union
I'm sure that has to do with her political opinions. I don't like her politics, but I love her playing!
Or you are living inside the piano, trying to sleep...
I think 2.7 thousand is the number of c# at 5:28
theoldar what are her politics ?
probably all the concert pianists who cannot play as well as she can!
Valentina approaches.
Piano: Oh shit, here we go again.
*traumatic flashbacks*
Brilliant comment
The piano says: Valentina approaches; 'Oh shit..'
Just a thought. Imagine writing this piece of music..... Imagine not being some future interpreter, but the instigator, the composer. Thats the level beyond.
You have a very strange name. I have a strange name too.
Tty
She literally transform any masterpiece in a better and deeper experience. We admire her and love her.
*This is what Rousseau sees in his nightmares :D*
true
Edit murad more like *poo rad* haha owned
Lol
MuraD lolll
@@Alexuhhh hello
Lol good one
Not Valentina was nervous before the concert... *THE PIANO WAS*
hahahaha
Grammar not bad you was
@@idontlie6373 at least he was funny
@@idontlie6373 unlike you
@@sonicdark1375 i think i did a good job
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She used a typewriter once. There were no survivors. Incredible skills.
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She always leaves one alive to tell the tale
Then how did you know when there were no survivors?
This was the performance that brought me into classical at the age of 12. Now i am 16, play the piano and am completely in love withthe music of Schumann and Bach. Returning to this video gives me so many memories of where my obsession began and how my taste changed over the years.
dam. i thought only Tom and Jerry could play this fast.
Cat concerto!
Tom and Jerry's best!
Bugs Bunny can do it too
That's how I first heard this song!
I like the tom and jerry version more
Beethoven: *Phew* The third movement of my Moonlight Sonata sure is fast and hard.
Liszt: Hold my beer.
I dunno about you but what about his "rage over a lost penny" piece? Feels much more difficult to play tbh
@@shahmirkhan5373 i agree, it's just i feel this is the most "widely known" of his pieces, if you will
Zachary Valdes 😂 😂 😂
Ever heard “A World On Fire” by Bo Burnham?
Respectively, I think all Liszt pieces are significantly harder than Moonlight 3rd movement
After training this for 1 year, finally I can play this for 10 seconds.
i can play all notes in this piece, although not at the right order and speed
@@WonyoungJang-uq1sj HA i c what u did there
I've been training for nearly a decade and I've never even been able to sight right beyond the 5th page
김준엽 only took me 1.5 months to learn this
trust yourself and you can do 1 minute
As a pianist I agree with you. Amazing technique. What people don't always realize is that to accomplish these pieces at such high technical and mature emotionally, first both sides of the brain is being used simultaneously. Second, to achieve the dexterity in the fingers takes years and thousands if not tens of thousands of hours practicing over and over, increasing the mm a notch each day so that your fingers glide effortlessly across the keys. Thirdly, also takes the ability to change emotions as to convey the story you are weaving on the piano. There was s so much more than most people realize. Amazing performance.
Thanks - that sometimes we feel too alone when there are no affinity buddies in sight. I am not a musician, but anyway was impressed by what I was calling 'the harmony of execution'. Your «both sides of the brain» helped me in having a more precise idea. But, again, I'll stick to 'harmony' since for me it is more a question of feeling the harmony of sound than feeling emotions, though I know that it is all connected. Could be because I got polarized by the difference in interpretations, where the world-known ones, with great technical skills, miss completely the 'harmonic feeling'. Among them the very known LL, that to me seems just an extremely fast piano typist.
One of those rare performances that will remain a testament to what a human being is capable of
Don't forget the composition itself.
It's music like that this makes me think there is a god.
@@dougn2350 And his name is Franz Liszt!
you sure she's a human?
sort of thing we should send to space in the next Voyager
@@regarrzo No.
A piano has 88 keys and I’m going to use ALL of them…
- Franz Liszt
...at once.
@@orkunone571 LMAOOOOO
He has paid for them!
Franz Liszt is a fucking nightmare…
What if I bash my head against my keyboard of notes
Everyone : why can't you just be normal?!
Liszt : *screams in c-sharp minor*
I love this comment 😂
*screams in 8 octaves simultaneously*
IHSUWJA LMAO
I mean, C# minor sounds cool and it’s honestly not that uncomfortable.
moonlight sonata's another
Where ever Mr. Liszt is now he is enjoying the heck out of this performance. The Piano has been waiting for this performance all it's life.
H-How- How in the HELL did she do that?! She's super human! So fast, her fingers were a blur! Poor Jerry. She killed him for sure.
watch hamelin play his cadenza of this piece it is incredible
Muscle memory.
It is very simple, she is made in the image of God. And it certainly has nothing to do with hell.
i thought everyone was made in the image of god. why cant i play it :(
Superoxide Dismutase God doesn't exist.
This piece is a lost song from my childhood. This was the last song my father ever learned on our old piano. I remember being a toddler sitting on his lap watching him. My sister and I dancing like ballerinas in the backround. It blows my mind that as soon as i heard the first 2 notes of this song, i stopped breathing. I couldn’t believe my ears. Instantly began to cry as soon as i realized it was the SONG! I instantly sent it to my sister saying “ I FOUND IT”!
That's a beautiful memory. I'm glad you found it. 😀
That’s so sweet!
ayo you related to idrissa gueye from paris saint germain
Your dad could play this!?
@@matth5734 What a nice memory!!!
1:22 that cheeky nod like *"yeah, I know I'm good"*
Good is an understatement
I think you meant *”yeah, I know I’m GOD”*
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@mindi97 That's well done X')
Cried through most of this. What a brilliant performance, I don’t even have words
I smoke, then watch, at certain moments my heart bursts and eyes tearing up.
The reason you don't hear many screams and cheers at the end is that most of the people in the audience fainted
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😂
That’s hilarious
It‘s Lisztomania all over again
She looks like she is enjoying herself so much...it is glorious to watch.
Did you learn Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2?
Yes
What did it cost you?
The C# key.
5:28
Did you learn la campanella
Yes
What did it cost?
The D# key
NSN Gaming no joke I learned la Campanella on my crappy 40 year old piano and that D# will never stay in tune no matter what
@@kylernice1505 liszt hates those keys man /:
Is that an infinity war reference?
@@Majestic469 yes... and it was beautiful
The long pause at 5:03 really nails it. I had watched so many other players doing this rhapsody and none of them made any sense; all sounded like schizophrenic incoherent performances. Now Valentian's pause finally made sense of the whole thing. There is a transition of mood that all other players didn't capture.
Most pianists with pieces like this have a ''look, I CAN play this'' vibe.
Lisitsa has the ''I feel this piece'' vibe.
Literally most of the pianists do this pause as it's literally written on the sheet music but okay
bingo
22 months after sitting down and committing to learning this piece, I
can play 120 measures at roughly 85% this tempo. I can play nearly the
whole thing at half tempo. I’m looking forward to uploading my
performance in 2020.
Wow. That's pretty amazing tbh.
For some reason I thought I saw this commemt on Valentina Lisitsa monlight sonata 3rd movent............
@@kyledsouza5 same :))
@@lukashellmann1029 Interesting
@@lukashellmann1029 I went to her 3rd movment of moonlight sonata an somebody named volvocloud posted the exact same comment 1 month ago
I just added this to my Liszt.
No
Yes
good one haha 😂
Ba-dum-tsss
I hate that I laughed at this haha
I watched Valentina playing this piece live in September 2022 at Sala São Paulo - Brazil, it was the most impressive thing i've ever seen in my life, I couldn't hold back the emotions, it made me feel so emotional I cried a lot and had goosebumps the whole concert, it was magical. And then I had the opportunity of meeting her in person, she was so sweet to all the Brazilian fans. ❤️
😊👍👏👏👏
I don't blame you. The best musical performances are a transcendent experience and overwhelm you with emotion. I'd love to see her perform in person.
ela é uma das minhas maiores inspirações, eu não consegui ir assisti-la pessoalmente, que grande privilégio! ❤❤❤
You are very fortunate ❤
I've been playing piano since I was 6, and I'm 39 now...and this remains one of the most difficult pieces I've ever played. She makes it look effortless.
Valentina sees a piano:
*Piano* "My time has come..."
Piano: Argh! It's Valentina!
(runs away)
😂
Send shivers down my spine
April Wang that’s what she said
technical difficulties of this piece include:
super fast passages
nonstop leaps that sometimes exceed 2 octaves
fast octaves in both hands simultaneously
fast chords
extremely fast scales in one hand and big jumps in the other, occurring simultaneously
melody paired with trills
physical strength
repeated notes
repeated notes paired with some other melody
edit: thanks for 500 likes!
How technical is this piece?
@@doncappo1509 very
I love how u added physical strength at the end
@@priyammascharak8400 tbh that's quite necessary
@Mathews ik those are harder
also what would you think is more technically hard
s219 or this
Play it on 2* speed and your phone will disappear because you have broken the space time continuum violating the speed of light
LMAO
Thank you!
It is incredibly impressive how she not only has mastered the technical aspect of this, but also managed to simultaneously communicate a full spectrum of emotions that really draws one in, all while making it look so effortless and her face exposing how much she is truly enjoying it! Her passion shines and she is absolutely amazing 🤍
If you can play it slowly, you can play it qui-oh wait wrong channel
interesting
But isn’t it sacrilegious?
I guess she really can play 15 notes a second...
She clearly practices 40 hours a day....
Violas have left the chat
That Tom and Jerry feeling in your heart making you happy.
Zen Naut finally,I saw somebody mentioning this 😂😂😂
Zen Naut omg same
Zen Naut this comment made my day thats how I always feel listening to this or I feel bugs bunny
most ducking unexpected feeling ever))))))) but your 100% right
Bugs Bunny does it better.
I think Valentina Lisitsa should upgrade to 60fps. 30 is waaaay too low for her
Yeah! Get with it Valentina! ROTFL!!!
davemz999 stop
saboo she needs 10000fps
saboo
"Saboo!!!" - Monkey D. Luffy (2017)
This performance is not just playing a piece of fabulous music, it's feeling and living it.
Thank you SO much 🥰 x
+ She's amazingly talented.
+ Best version of this song I've ever heard.
- RIP Jerry.
so you said rip jerry *its on the tom and jerry*
*Piece :^)
yeh cuz jerry is the mouse, dont u get it
she tends to slur a lot of her notes, & i dont get much of feeling when i listen to her. check out hamelin's version, or vladimir horowitz
Ulli Meinhof o I can only agree...what an profoundly and overwhelmingly gifted artist (how fortunate we are to be able to appreciate, in amazement, once such good good musicianship) o
she's not lisitsa she's lisztisa
her name is Валентина Евгеньевна Лисица
@@filipbulovic4259
Yup, she is one Foxy lady
@@TeslaLegend that would be translation of her surname, otherwise she is one one imposing female figure so foxy is kind of diminutive
@@filipbulovic4259
The translation pun was all I was after. Huge respect for Valentina.
드립 ㄷ
I bet a mouse is sleeping inside that Grand piano
poor Jerry
Poor tom
not anymore
That's the comment I was looking for XD
most beautiful performance
This music stirs something up in my european soul, it is a mix of greatness , tremendous suffering , setbacks ,pain but also powerful, beauty, ,playfull , joyfulness and self confidence.
1. This is absolutely my favorite classical performance by any artist on any instrument
2. Her hands were moving so fast in the middle that it almost seemed like a big joke, not intentional. A nearly psychotic level of playing.
3. What’s more daunting is that Liszt actually intentionally wrote this. He dreamed to extract from the piano as much as humanly possible. Will anyone ever extract more?
It seemed like watching a cartoon! Completely amazing.
I think nothing can top this. Maybe you can play faster but making it sound as harmonic as this at the same time is nearly impossible
@@switterbeet this is on the very edge of the realm of possible, as a not genetically enhanced human. I would guess with no genetic engeneering no natural born human will ever surpass this level of skill.
You haven´t heard of Kazuhito Yamashita, for me the artist most "scary technique" i know
@@williamtaittinger4529 While she plays this piece extremely well, I think that you simply lack understanding
She is the master. Unbelievable skill she is like a freak of nature. She can play so many pieces of music on the top of her head without having to read the music from a sheet. Virtuoso at its highest level. The best
She also has just the right bone structure. Liszt was noted for writing pieces that required extended reach, he had very large hands. She can get it done. Love it.
Simsy I'm not sure you can play it with notes, unless you have 3rd hand to turn pages
I'm going to assume you don't play piano or a musical instrument so, it's actually easier to play without the music sheet once you've practiced enough, you yourself as well as your fingers memorize the song pretty well, you remember the rythm and what comes next and your fingers have their muscle memory. Combine that with an insane amount of talent and practice and you get this.
@@thezerbs872
I can play the intro of The Entertainer and that's about as far as it goes for me haha I don't have much idea on how to play the piano whatsoever just I do find this performance absolutely breathtaking it's amazing to watch and listen too.
@@thezerbs872 I still need the sheet music as a reference even I already master the piece, especially the longer ones. Sometimes I forget what's next quite often. I don't read the notes, but see which part, formation of the notes and how it should be played.
This is the best performance of the piece.
Liszt was a genius.
I dare to disagree, as Marc-Andre Hamelin's performance is undoubtedly the best one so far.
Really good
Cziffra's recording is legendary
While I agree this is a superb performance, in my opinion Adam Gyorgy's version is better.
She plays faster than my internet...
weird flex
That's the video's frame rate dude. No matter how fast your network connection is
@@jeffreyliang2845 it was a joke
*cries in Australian*
I’ve heard that comment about 77382829290197476462718190times
I just want to BEGIN with this Statement: This woman is AMAZINGLY, INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL. END of Statement.
Damn!
I was just about to begin that statement!
Utterly astonishing: the best I've ever heard, and she looks as though she not only IS the music, but she's truly enjoying it.
If you look at the reflection of her hands on the piano it looks like the reflection is struggling to keep up
because it does
No.
Speed of light can travel so fast, our vision systems will not be able to recognize the delay.
Lica hes joking
Shadow playing!
@@alna9681
I have examined his comment above. And, under cultural subjects I found that your explanation has probability to be correct.
Thank you for your effort.
Fun fact: She burned 1000 calories here with her fingers alone
In one of her interviews she actually talked about her hand muscles 🤣
Wow that is crazy
Is that really true??
Chaitanya Chaudhary no lol her heart rate is no where near cardio levels aha. Jogging for 10 mins would burn way more.
@@cactish3191 I thought so too but many comments like these have got a lot of likes so I thought it may be true
Thanks anyway
I personally think 9:10 is extremely impressive. I've heard a lot of pianists try to play this (including myself) and either make it too slow, or too mushy. Valentina plays it incredibly clear and hastily while still retaining quality and the composers intention for it to be played. She is a remarkable pianist no matter what any critic says.
So true
Who the heck could possibly criticize her?? It's beyond me.
This fucking scared me
Yes I noticed that too. Liszt probably meant this to sound a bit edgy, like maybe the wrong note was hit, and many people just assume that it's the pianist. It is not. It's the art of the piece and requires something special to achieve.
That is part of the Cadenza right?
Unprecedented interpretation of musical phrases. One of the fewer pianists who make the music speak and bring it to life
No classical performance is complete without a sneeze
6:35 **ach-ooo**
😂
@TheClasher202 fucl
You've got the hearing ability of a... a... new born baby
@@AA-sn9lz thanks....?
Bugs bunny was much more harsh on interruptions.
This is a perfect example of how a musician makes the instrument an extension of themselves and how to make it "sing". You can see the emotion start from within her, move down her arms to her hands and fingers then to the keyboard. She's made the piano part of her. The joy in her face says it all.
Bit weird for it to end so suddenly, with no mouse inside the piano to keep it going.
Kai Cyreus #TomAndJerry
Lmao!!! Ibwas thinking the same thing
Not any mouse only jerry
Woody Woodpecker was an episode with this song too... He is tunning a piano and a thief shows up and wants to hide in there. "Convict Concerto" the name of the episode.
Actually, the performance in the episode was shorter by a considerable amount of time. About 2 minutes.
As a newbie piano player getting their first meaningful insights into the higher levels of mastery, this is just mindblowing, and kicks my inspiration and motivation into overdrive. I imagine only the very pinnacle of players are even willing to devote the blood, sweat, tears and pure magic that it takes to achieve playing similar to this. Not just the technical difficulty, but the absolute grace, fierce power, keen precision, and depth of soul and emotion - stunning!
I hear you. I started piano just a month ago. I may never get to be able to do this piece, but it's a great inspiration.
Liszt: i paid for the whole piano, i am using the whole piano
Oh look, is the same joke for 192829 time
chuercoski :D hahaha i know 😂😂😂
This joke is so over used.
"payed" lol
@@catherinejanet5806 ah ok
Her expression at the pause at 6:00 was priceless!
Great flair, panache and all around badassery.
Plus she’s having FUN!
Awesome!
This makes me feel very grateful that people like Franz Liszt have existed in this world and people like Valentina Lisitsa exist in this world.
5:05 pure magic.
Followed by pure joy of playing drifting more and more into the pure insanity.
I wonder how often she went through this until she achieved this level of perfection.
I think the piano's gonna want a cigarette after that one
For pianists, playing piano make them orgasm already.
Max, you didn't get the quote
Me neither. Could you explain, please? :)
Jonas Amaro just watch the movie "The Legend of 1900" by Tornatore, you'll understand then
I heard this particular piano retired after that night's concert.
Piano abuse is not a joke, Liszt, millions of pianos are harmed each year.
Lizst: PAGANINI!
Excited Taco: Oh that's funny. PAGANINI!!!!
there shouldn't be millions of pianos that's being played liszt
So true...say no to piano violence, though my teachers tell me to play harder on the keys
@@Majestic469 i think the keys wouldn't mind, but the hammers in the piano on the other hand...
@@go1485 r/whoosh
I swear I saw some keys being pressed only by her sheer willpower.
The keys were terrified of what she would do once she got there, so they pressed themselves out of utter fear.
hehehehe
She hits some of these keys faster than the camera's framerate, especially at the start of the friska. She's insanely good.
@@vidblogger12 haha brilliant yes!
My 120 hrz refresh rate ain't cuttin' it.
Well, I ran out of words to describe this performance. This is absolutely unreal and magical, and I'm so lucky to get to watch this legendary performance!!!
Cat: "meow mewo"
Dog: "bark bark"
Ling ling: "if you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly"
You mean the sacrilegious boi?
What
ling ling? you mean Lang Lang?
eka puja agung of course he can say that. He practices 48 hours a day
@@homiej2548 oo
6:10 if you look closely you gonna see 10 fingers in each hand.
A twist for an over used joke, liked it.
What?
I saw 2 hands in each finger
i can actually do that part in 150 bpm
Sir, how much alcohol have u drunken🧐
Before u come for me, this was a joke
I do not understand anyone who would put a thumbs down on this. Her performance (and interpretation) is superb.
I personally would appreciate a calmer, slower version of the second half and a slightly quicker version of parts of the first half.
however, this seems like a demonstration of skill, not an attempt to make the piece pleasing to the ear, so I'm not too mad. she's the composer's (?) descendent, she's got everything to prove in playing his piece as impressively as possible
I suspect it's politics, and not appreciation for the art. Which is sad.
Felix Le Chat she's nothing, compared to greats, like Horowitz or Rubenstein
@@filippkarandeev139 personally I like the original version more than the Horowitz version
Illbambino that's not about the arrangment, it's about musicality
彼女は、この曲色んな人弾いて中でトップに君臨する位圧巻で世界観に入って上手すぎる。
ピアノタッチもただ軽くなく弾んでいてスピード感がやばいです。
高速連打トリル使わず指連打だから音の短過ぎずに弾けてるところが神ですね。
Valentina is absolutely CRAZY! This performance is, by no means, a perfect representation of what Franz Liszt intended when he wrote the sheet music for this rhapsody, but I desperately want to believe that it would make Franz absolutely ecstatic to hear someone having so much fun while playing one of his pieces of music. Her performance is so whimsical and brave. God I love it!
Sorry-not-sorry but: even if you had a 'perfect representation of what Franz Liszt intended' written down and signed by him (which you don't, and are therefore make-believing your way into his mind), it wouldn't be useful even to inform the arbitrary ideals of performance ethics you seem to be pursuing. His genius was in musical composition and performance, not explaining himself.
cf the excellent anecdote about Beethoven being asked to 'explain the meaning behind' his Eroica after a performance. He just snorted, said nothing, and started playing it again on the piano. Or Mendelssohn's wonderful quote about the futility of trying to translate musical intentionality with language: "The feelings aroused in me when listening to music that I love are not too indefinite to put into words; they are, in contrast, *too definite*."
John Bevan idk what about this is so mildly infuriating but this belongs on r/nobodyasked
@@jbro2780 every comment ever. We're all in this together, friend.
John Bevan yes but creating a problem that doesn’t need to be created would just end in something like this where i am typing.
This is the first time i have applauded to a youtube video.
Your comment should get more likes
Same here
Me too!!
Underated comment
Yes!!! Me too!!
I am mezmerized by her fingers dancing on the keyboard, such as at 06:38.
What fingers? I didn't see no fingers, the video's framerate is not high enough for that
Please why the profile picture
Yessss and at 6:15 as well
It’s a true sight to behold!
*finesse*
noun
1.
impressive delicacy and skill.
she is my favorite pianist of all. i use her as an example when i am at the piano she inspires me so much
I keep expecting her hands to bump into each other, then I realize they are transparent and go through each other.
That's not what transparent means.
the Collisions setting in her hands had been turned to 'Off'
Magnificent
Her hands dont have collision boxes
So her hands can go through anything? 😳
Liszt was probably thinking “ No one is actually going to play this it’s April fools”
Valentina:
Liszt: *shoot*
How is this funny?
Why It? It isn’t
@@etsanurmth3787 OK. Just making sure I wasn't going insane.
@@whyit487
It was solooooooo funnyyyyyyy
Waaaaaaaaa
@@etsanurmth3787
Sooop funnyy
Dada di daaa
Dada di daaaaaaa
Wa da di daaaaaaaa
I can tell the piano is scared of her.
+CMCdoesMusic LOL! I bet it was thinking, 'Aw shit not this bitch again!"
+CMCdoesMusic wouldn't you be?
+Xyko
I wouldn't be scared. I'd love to have her play that on my back!
...
(Nooooo, don't you dare! Don't even go there.)
+CMCdoesMusic fucking lol
Most of you people haven't seen Vladimir Horowitz live.He transcribed this work and make it 100 times more difficult and only he can play !
Valentina is magnificent....... never heard this tune played so wonderfully good as this is.......!!!! BRAVO VALENTINA.......!!!!
Legend has it that no one coughed during Liszt's performances
Did this man just solve coronavirus?
Apparently girls would scream and cheer when he played, and some would even faint.
Sorry... but at 6:44 - 6:46 you can vaguely hear a *cough*
@@edgarhehehe6800 true
truered lucky yup. Both Franz Liszt (piano) and Niccoló Paganini (violin) were considered the world’s first “superstars” in the modern sense of the word, mainly because of the effect they’ve had on their audiences.
There was a phenomenon called “Lisztomania” where women would attend Liszt’s live concerts and faint and squeal with delight and excitement, and apparently no one at the time really knew why.
I am perfectly willing to die now. There can be nothing more beautiful than this! I now meet my maker with sheer bliss. This is perfection. Mr. Liszt would be envious of Ms. Lisztsista's rendition of his work. God bless you, Valentina, and thank you for this!
Clamchucker i love white people
Because true beauty comes from within, and not everyone can see it.
Mystic Boltz, love? clearly you know nothig abuot it
The best part, to me, is how she clearly took as much joy in playing it as we do in hearing it.
Indeed!