As always, Valentina gives us the soul of the piece. Not dark necessarily, but certainly foreboding and dread. Then.....the snow. Wonderful performance VL.
This is my favourite piano piece, I get shivers every time I listen to it. I got double shivers hearing it from you; you don't know how long I'd expected for you to play it! Excellent!!
This piece is so complex, it's unbelievable. I've been playing piano forever, but that's just way too extreme for normal people. Rarely do we get the chance to admire such a great piano player! Congratulations and I wish you the best :)
Santiago Morales You own a funeral? Wow, I’ve never met someone who owns one before. What’s it like inside? But man this piece is great, I should have it played AT my funeral
Amazing playing this version is one of the best, I can't wait to hear your Mazeppa and it would be a real treasure to hear your take on Medtners piano works.
Великолепно!Многослойность фактуры и частота звука это высший уровень мастерства.А динамика и эмоциональная наполненность захватывает дух.Это то, зачем люди приходят на концерт .Здесь даже запись передаёт всё волшебство исполнения на 100%! ❤❤❤❤❤
For your Dutch fans: chasse-neige translates in the Dutch language as "jachtsneeuw". Whatever Liszt meant by it, this stands for snow that "bites" into your face, because of strong wind pushes the small snowflakes in an almost horizontal direction. In contrast to snow falling slowly and vertically, transforming the landscape to a quiet atmosphere. Liszt certainly gives this stormy, unrestful character its musical voice.
Exotically beautiful work. Liszt never fails to amaze me. Chopin will always be my favorite but Liszt is on a pedestal of extreme originality and intensity.
Liszt intended to compose 24 pieces in all keys for his S.139 Ètudes d'exècution transcendante, but was unable to complete the project. I can only imagine the masterpieces he had in mind that were just waiting to be written down.
What you are starting to achieve is true heart of piano virtuosity: fluid movement of the hands, where the music just flows out of you - it's piano zen. This is exactly what Liszt seemed to be communicating - not two hands but ten fingers and one soul. It's fantastic to listen to but even more beautiful to watch you perform. Your Un Sospiro was the most fluid performance I've ever seen. Bravo!
Valentina, the sheer quality of your productions is a revelation so I thank you for not only leading the way in content but in also in quality. Thank you for sharing your wonderful Bosendorfer with us also.
Wow. Holy smokes. Mad genius. The writing, and the ability for one to comprehend, absorb, and play so beautifully. Please don't ever stop posting vids, Valentina...I've never heard such incredible takes on the pieces you post. And I really love seeing what hands have to do to produce the results you achieve.
It occurs to me that Liszt would have been particularly familiar with "the elements", from his Concert Tours through Europe . He came to Lincoln and gave a Concert at the Assembly rooms. The audience was by all accounts small and not very appreciative. He went on to other venues in Lincolnshire and had his Piano transported, presumably by horse and cart, to Horncastle and Boston! This was before the Railways reached Lincolnshire I believe.
its so awesome shes playing ona Busendorfer or whatever the brand is, its got an extra key at the bottom! gosh so relaxed extremely well planned well played, scales are perfectly even, seamless and precise, like when a true carpenter finishes off his pieces with sandpaper.
I love your ominous description of reality. It is sobering but also enticing. I love feeling myself be totally "dépassée" by the forces of Nature. I rejoiced when the Cathedral of Notre Dame burnt, not because I am a hidden pyromaniac as I am a Rat of Fire Chinese Zodiac, and an Aries in the Babylonian skies, but because I suffered a lot in Paris and the "hautaine" caractère of people who bullied me there for being Colombian, with Lithuanian ancestors and ancestresses, was suddently shut up by the fire. I really love how forces of nature can shot us up. Under the rain, Bogotá's highest money-level neighborhoods are equal to the small precarious houses of "invasion" that are built upon the Mountain. I really loved that something that French / Parisian people thought so imperishable, and thought made them superior because it had been standing "from the Middle Ages" (that is not long ago, in Earthen time), was gone in a couple hours. All of their "orgueil" aussi. I really loved your temperamental description of a blizzard, and this dutch comment about snow biting in your face. I have another Colombian friend who loved experiencing earthquakes (terremotos), because she felt how Powerful was nature in face of us all. For me it is not sobering, as you excellently said (of someone in their appartment of New York being as impoverished and vulnerable as someone from the Middle Ages, in front of Nature's wrath!), but it is exalting. Thank you for your wonderful writing whose music parallels the one you are a goddess to make.
I once got lost in a grey deadwood forest whilst listening to this ferocious piece, and forever since listening to it brings back those fairy tale like images and atmosphere from that day.
'Transcendental' is certainly the term for this piano tone-poem. The swirling snow and rising winds take the listener as well as the performer to places existing only inside their minds. Fantastic!
The point of the Transcendental Etudes is that if you have the technique and the musicality, they become beautiful; if you don't they are crunching and sound difficult. You bring out the beauty in this etude. It is quite ethereal and shimmering. Not every pianist "gets" that, or can bring out the subtle delicacy that is in there--and you do.
Valentina,u are one of the greatest pianist of our time !You play like no others !! such a talent,technique,musicality,you are genius !! I studied piano for years,and I I know how hard and complicated classical music is,and U,make it look so easy ..... You are genius !!!!!
Даже мурашки стояли, не пробежали, а стояли. Да, пьеса невероятно трудная. Но прочтение такое убедительное и глубокое(музыке Листа часто не хватает глубины, вместо экзальтации, в т.ч. даже и Соната), как только женщина может дать, что некоторая сдержанность, вместо бравуры, совсем не воспринимаются как сознательный уход от возможных технических огрехов. Это куда лучше, нежели даже безупречно дубасить клавиши в подвижном темпе и так и оставить слушателя в нервном раздражении. Данная же игра захватила смирением, начатым хорошо заранее. Мощно, зрело. Браво! Да нет, и темп на месте в каждом месте;). Сейчас послушал еще раз. Вообще потрясающе.
Your thoughts on this piece of music are absolutely true. Nature, in all its awe - inspiring power , can be dangerous. Your thoughts are very relevant in today's modern contexts, so are Liszt's. Thank you!
Hi Valentina, this is the rendetion i love the most, kind of late to find this that you have posted 7 years ago, hahha! i love how you drive the "wind" more and more intense to the climax and the ending, nothingness ... Liszt would love this i strongly believe ... also love how you let music speak itself, no pretense ... so natural, so perfect for this Chasse-neige, perfect closure to the whole set! Wishing you would visit Indonesia again one day! greetings from the tropic:) hope you stay well during this pandemic
Uma música muito forte e intensa que mexe com os sentimentos, toda vez que escuto me sinto desafiado por algo quase inalcançável que ainda não entendo o que é. Liszt realmente fechou com chave de ouro os seus 12 estudos. Parabéns a Valentina pela belíssima interpretação!!!
this is life changing i love it and u inspired me to try this on my piano it might be difficult for my level but i downloaded it and i just wanna tell u that u r amazing
Music is something that can identify yourself, but at the same time hides and protects you from bad things, shows integrety, and that we not fail everytime has human beiings. I love Liszt and his virtuosist humbility, i love all erudits who reenforce the colossal tree of arts, but i love the most Beethoven and Brahms. They are immortal, leaving a message that how often we find for it in they'r work, we never will find the answer, thats that powerfull chalenge. Thank you Valentina for being part
A much more fierce and vivid interpretation than most others - who usually play it like a nocturne, rather contrary to the title. Well done, Val! :) I have always been puzzled by those extremely beautiful little chromatic runs in the middle section, but hearing them and everything else so much more alive here, they make a lot more sense.
thank you for this information. I have never thought of that. I should have said more clearly - it amazing how you mastered your left hand in such a difficult etude.
A beautiful performance. You make the techniques seem so effortless and inconsequential whilst putting the affect of the music as the focal point of the work. I think Liszt himself would have been proud! :D
Hello Valentina, You have shown great artistry and sentimentality with this performance. It is wonderful to watch you perform. Your hand movements over the keys are always amazing. Your hard work and dedication to your craft clearly shows love for the music you play. I can only say congratulations and send you my best wishes. Your love of music makes the world a better place for us all!....Will
Great comment! I read that Richter towards the end of his career didn't want people looking at him so he only played with minimal lighting. He knew his expresssions were a distraction from the music (and I will avoid the obvious knock on a certain artist with a repetitive name -- I'm too old for another internet flame war). Now in order to help you out . . . before a concert take a bunch of salt tablets, then CHUG water. You'll sweat like a rock star.
My favorite UA-cam pianist playing (as of now) my favorite recording of my favorite Transcendental Etude. The East coast storm was worth it. Well, no, people died, but still, glad you played it, thank you, thank you.
I always end up laughing hard at some point in your videos, because what I see is beyond my comprehension. I'm amazed once again. Beautiful to listen to, beautiful to watch. Thank you!
I love Liszts Transcendental Etudes, and believe they are among his greatest works.My absolute favorites are Nos 10 & 11.You were born for the virtuoso romantic era.
Fantasmagoricallyfabulous! Let the French debate that one! You made it look so effortless and relaxed!!! This is one piece I will NEVER attempt! At least not in this life!
1:47 I cannot describe that perfect sound you created from that resolution into E major. The way those lower bass nots just hum. Stunning!
yes. it is absolutely undescribable and yet absolutely hearable, like a lot of layers under a layer, that all fit perfectly.
A performance full of passion and drama.
You have to see Trifonov...
I want to be able to play this, just so I can do so at a window, while it's snowing intensely outside.
Its gonna take some time and practice but you can do it slowly
You can. While take a while though.
Depends where you live, for example, I am preparing this piece, but the difficult part is to find snow here 😂
Weird challenge: bring your piano out in the snow and play this (or Chopin Op 25 No 11)
@@endergreek4016 "iF yoU cAN plAy iT sLOwLy, yOU caN pLAy iT qUIckLy."
As always, Valentina gives us the soul of the piece. Not dark necessarily, but certainly foreboding and dread. Then.....the snow.
Wonderful performance VL.
This is my favourite piano piece, I get shivers every time I listen to it. I got double shivers hearing it from you; you don't know how long I'd expected for you to play it! Excellent!!
chasse-neige is like, something that moves snow around. and so violently, that you feel the snow is being chased by it.
Valentina you have played this wonderful piece in a perfect way. Great job!
Extremely hard piece! Bravo Valentina!
@@Numberonesorabjifan it's rated as a grade 9 bruh
@@rekzbois9581 Hi guys, what is the grade?
@@egorgor 9
9 is the hardest grade
Rekzbois i thought you meant 9th grade in like school wise, i was so confused for a second, because this is surely professional level
Absolutely stunning performance
This piece is so complex, it's unbelievable. I've been playing piano forever, but that's just way too extreme for normal people. Rarely do we get the chance to admire such a great piano player! Congratulations and I wish you the best :)
I play for overall two years. And I learned this piece in 6 months. Difficulty is subjective.
@@bboyo8307 good joke
@@tommyvercetti1827 I played it in front of school 3 weeks ago. It was so good
@@bboyo8307 video?
@@swety2962 on red. Search chasse neige under classical music subred. Uploaded it 1 week ago or so
please, play this in my funeral
Santiago Morales You own a funeral? Wow, I’ve never met someone who owns one before. What’s it like inside? But man this piece is great, I should have it played AT my funeral
azmah ila wow, that's so funny
not Funerailles?
Nick B well caught haha!
@@azmahila8100 not every one can f#cking speak english perfectly
Amazing playing this version is one of the best, I can't wait to hear your Mazeppa and it would be a real treasure to hear your take on Medtners piano works.
She still hasn't recorded mazeppa( too sad((
I feel that Liszt would have appreciated your interpretations of his piano music. That was beautiful and perfect!👏🎶
Великолепно!Многослойность фактуры и частота звука это высший уровень мастерства.А динамика и эмоциональная наполненность захватывает дух.Это то, зачем люди приходят на концерт .Здесь даже запись передаёт всё волшебство исполнения на 100%! ❤❤❤❤❤
Чистота , а не частота звука!
Valentina assolutamente sublime!!
Un vero miracolo artistico coronato dalla genialità esecutiva.
Meravigliosa!!
calmati però
For your Dutch fans: chasse-neige translates in the Dutch language as "jachtsneeuw". Whatever Liszt meant by it, this stands for snow that "bites" into your face, because of strong wind pushes the small snowflakes in an almost horizontal direction. In contrast to snow falling slowly and vertically, transforming the landscape to a quiet atmosphere. Liszt certainly gives this stormy, unrestful character its musical voice.
It's actually from French. Means Snowstorm or blizzard
@@SvetlioTheG Indeed. "chasse" means "jacht" in Dutch, but not meant for killing animals
great piece of writing in this text!!!
Exotically beautiful work. Liszt never fails to amaze me. Chopin will always be my favorite but Liszt is on a pedestal of extreme originality and intensity.
Valentina Lisitsa: The Master. Sublime. No other words ;)
Incredible technique and musicality...wonderful sonority from that Bosendorfer...wish I had one...
Liszt intended to compose 24 pieces in all keys for his S.139 Ètudes d'exècution transcendante, but was unable to complete the project. I can only imagine the masterpieces he had in mind that were just waiting to be written down.
Same with Chopin
Watching her play this and hit every note perfectly in those Tremolos is just so unbelievably relaxing.
yeo!
What you are starting to achieve is true heart of piano virtuosity: fluid movement of the hands, where the music just flows out of you - it's piano zen. This is exactly what Liszt seemed to be communicating - not two hands but ten fingers and one soul. It's fantastic to listen to but even more beautiful to watch you perform. Your Un Sospiro was the most fluid performance I've ever seen. Bravo!
that E flat bass at 4:03... gut wrenchingly beautiful.
Valentina, the sheer quality of your productions is a revelation so I thank you for not only leading the way in content but in also in quality. Thank you for sharing your wonderful Bosendorfer with us also.
Wow. Holy smokes. Mad genius. The writing, and the ability for one to comprehend, absorb, and play so beautifully. Please don't ever stop posting vids, Valentina...I've never heard such incredible takes on the pieces you post. And I really love seeing what hands have to do to produce the results you achieve.
I am fascinated, mesmerized by those flying hands and taken away by that piano music
AMAZING GOD BLESS YOU AND FAMILY
Thumbs up for playing the Boesendorfer imperial!! :D
The light, the piano, the sound and the player are perfect. How much People help with this amazing Quality? its really a unseen Quality everywhere!
It occurs to me that Liszt would have been particularly familiar with "the elements", from his Concert Tours through Europe . He came to Lincoln and gave a Concert at the Assembly rooms. The audience was by all accounts small and not very appreciative.
He went on to other venues in Lincolnshire and had his Piano transported, presumably by horse and cart, to Horncastle and Boston! This was before the Railways reached Lincolnshire I believe.
its so awesome shes playing ona Busendorfer or whatever the brand is, its got an extra key at the bottom! gosh so relaxed extremely well planned well played, scales are perfectly even, seamless and precise, like when a true carpenter finishes off his pieces with sandpaper.
Nine extra keys; Sub bass C to sub bass A flat.
This performance is exactly what I have imagined of Transcedental Etude #12.
I love your ominous description of reality. It is sobering but also enticing. I love feeling myself be totally "dépassée" by the forces of Nature. I rejoiced when the Cathedral of Notre Dame burnt, not because I am a hidden pyromaniac as I am a Rat of Fire Chinese Zodiac, and an Aries in the Babylonian skies, but because I suffered a lot in Paris and the "hautaine" caractère of people who bullied me there for being Colombian, with Lithuanian ancestors and ancestresses, was suddently shut up by the fire. I really love how forces of nature can shot us up. Under the rain, Bogotá's highest money-level neighborhoods are equal to the small precarious houses of "invasion" that are built upon the Mountain. I really loved that something that French / Parisian people thought so imperishable, and thought made them superior because it had been standing "from the Middle Ages" (that is not long ago, in Earthen time), was gone in a couple hours. All of their "orgueil" aussi. I really loved your temperamental description of a blizzard, and this dutch comment about snow biting in your face.
I have another Colombian friend who loved experiencing earthquakes (terremotos), because she felt how Powerful was nature in face of us all.
For me it is not sobering, as you excellently said (of someone in their appartment of New York being as impoverished and vulnerable as someone from the Middle Ages, in front of Nature's wrath!), but it is exalting. Thank you for your wonderful writing whose music parallels the one you are a goddess to make.
I once got lost in a grey deadwood forest whilst listening to this ferocious piece, and forever since listening to it brings back those fairy tale like images and atmosphere from that day.
Wonderful performance. And spectacular view of her hands. Love the close-ups.
This has inspired me to start learning the piano!
One of the best renditions next to ovchinnikov and kultyshev, as well as some other pianists
'Transcendental' is certainly the term for this piano tone-poem. The swirling snow and rising winds take the listener as well as the performer to places existing only inside their minds. Fantastic!
Your touch is so incredibly soft, not even the tremolos I mean the jumps and the main melody, goosebumps..
Bravississima. You are incredible. Remarkable work on one of the most challenging of the Transcendentals. I am a new fan of yours!
The point of the Transcendental Etudes is that if you have the technique and the musicality, they become beautiful; if you don't they are crunching and sound difficult. You bring out the beauty in this etude. It is quite ethereal and shimmering. Not every pianist "gets" that, or can bring out the subtle delicacy that is in there--and you do.
exactly
Valentina,u are one of the greatest pianist of our time !You play like no others !!
such a talent,technique,musicality,you are genius !! I studied piano for years,and I
I know how hard and complicated classical music is,and U,make it look so easy .....
You are genius !!!!!
Даже мурашки стояли, не пробежали, а стояли. Да, пьеса невероятно трудная. Но прочтение такое убедительное и глубокое(музыке Листа часто не хватает глубины, вместо экзальтации, в т.ч. даже и Соната), как только женщина может дать, что некоторая сдержанность, вместо бравуры, совсем не воспринимаются как сознательный уход от возможных технических огрехов. Это куда лучше, нежели даже безупречно дубасить клавиши в подвижном темпе и так и оставить слушателя в нервном раздражении. Данная же игра захватила смирением, начатым хорошо заранее. Мощно, зрело. Браво!
Да нет, и темп на месте в каждом месте;). Сейчас послушал еще раз. Вообще потрясающе.
Your thoughts on this piece of music are absolutely true. Nature, in all its awe - inspiring power , can be dangerous. Your thoughts are very relevant in today's modern contexts, so are Liszt's. Thank you!
Hi Valentina, this is the rendetion i love the most, kind of late to find this that you have posted 7 years ago, hahha! i love how you drive the "wind" more and more intense to the climax and the ending, nothingness ... Liszt would love this i strongly believe ... also love how you let music speak itself, no pretense ... so natural, so perfect for this Chasse-neige, perfect closure to the whole set!
Wishing you would visit Indonesia again one day! greetings from the tropic:) hope you stay well during this pandemic
Uma música muito forte e intensa que mexe com os sentimentos, toda vez que escuto me sinto desafiado por algo quase inalcançável que ainda não entendo o que é. Liszt realmente fechou com chave de ouro os seus 12 estudos. Parabéns a Valentina pela belíssima interpretação!!!
Pathetique by you would be heavenly! It is my bucket list song to learn on the piano.
A beautiful interpretation! 👏🎹
Hearing that in short distance of 3 meters must be a great experience,..Again wooonderful!! Thank You!!!!
Damn. And to think I still sometimes have trouble finding the 'G' string on a guitar!
Beautiful lady and beautiful pianistics!
A glimpse into the 19th century. Great playing.
Grandioso,que manos maravillosas.
Feliz jueves🌿
Ik vind dit geweldig, het geeft veel weer wie en hoe bijzonder Fransz Liszt was als pianist en componist.
this is life changing i love it and u inspired me to try this on my piano it might be difficult for my level but i downloaded it and i just wanna tell u that u r amazing
How did it come along?
@@bananabattlebean4858 She can't reply because she broke all her fingers
Великолепное понимание и знание клавиатуры. Bravo.
Beautifull interpretation with a lot of nerve and tension. Extremely romantic.
One of the best contemporary Interpreters of F.Liszt piano Repertoire.......no doubt.
Music is something that can identify yourself, but at the same time hides and protects you from bad things, shows integrety, and that we not fail everytime has human beiings. I love Liszt and his virtuosist humbility, i love all erudits who reenforce the colossal tree of arts, but i love the most Beethoven and Brahms. They are immortal, leaving a message that how often we find for it in they'r work, we never will find the answer, thats that powerfull chalenge. Thank you Valentina for being part
absolutely amazing performance
this is what i have been waiting for... ...probably the best recording of this piece on youtube
Умничка! Превосходное выступление...
SHE PLAYS THIS VERY CHALLENGING PIECE WITH SUCH EASE AND ARTISTRY. A CONSUMMATE VIRTUOSO!
No one ever plays like Valentina Lisitsa, Bravo !
Anything from you is a banquet of beauty for my ears and heart!
You are the greatest pianist of our time!
Hauntingly sublime
Valentina Divina!!! Ese cerebro conectado a esas manos! Excelente!
Великолепно! Свободно и легко.
Но я все-же не могу отойти от того сильного и глубокого образа, который был создан Берманом в этом шедевре Листа.
Как и в остальных 11))
Incredible! Liszt was a rockstar of his day for good reason. And the same goes for you, Valentina:P
A much more fierce and vivid interpretation than most others - who usually play it like a nocturne, rather contrary to the title. Well done, Val! :) I have always been puzzled by those extremely beautiful little chromatic runs in the middle section, but hearing them and everything else so much more alive here, they make a lot more sense.
I like your thoughts, we are indeed very fragile creatures.
It is always a pleasure to listen to your performances. Thanks for this video.
This is one of my favorite ones that I heard just recently. It's perfect that you posted this.
I love it how you noted - no matter in what time we live in, nature is always much more powerful.
Thank you so much. It was my request for a ling time. It worths waiting. It's gracious
I am in awe of your mastery - what can't you play Ms. Lisitsa? Once again, thank you for this beautiful performance~
Een echte sneeuwstorm, wat kan zij dit goed! Bravo! Leve Lisitsa! ( ook heerlijk om naar te kijken )
beautiful interpretation
i think im watching the best pianist of our time!!!amazing,thank you
thank you for this information. I have never thought of that. I should have said more clearly - it amazing how you mastered your left hand in such a difficult etude.
Its a joy to watch you play. Thank you sooooooo much.
A beautiful performance. You make the techniques seem so effortless and inconsequential whilst putting the affect of the music as the focal point of the work. I think Liszt himself would have been proud! :D
I'm anxiously waiting for the day that you share with us, a composition of yours!
Hello Valentina, You have shown great artistry and sentimentality with this performance. It is wonderful to watch you perform. Your hand movements over the keys are always amazing. Your hard work and dedication to your craft clearly shows love for the music you play. I can only say congratulations and send you my best wishes. Your love of music makes the world a better place for us all!....Will
Great comment! I read that Richter towards the end of his career didn't want people looking at him so he only played with minimal lighting. He knew his expresssions were a distraction from the music (and I will avoid the obvious knock on a certain artist with a repetitive name -- I'm too old for another internet flame war).
Now in order to help you out . . . before a concert take a bunch of salt tablets, then CHUG water. You'll sweat like a rock star.
Pure magic. I can't wait until your Liszt project is finally released!
Watching her hands flying is another enjoyment.
Vorrei poter mettere un mi piace ogni volta che guardo questo video, e sarebbero tanti...
I am recalling your North Carolina storm video. Both were beautiful. I don't think this is depressing at all -- stormy yes -- but majestic as well.
Great fun learning this etude. Thank you for the idea.
The best of the 12, along with 11..and 8..
Merveilleux, j'ai dû regarder cette vidéo 100 fois depuis qu'elle est sortie mais c'est toujours aussi puissant
Je peux parler un peux to français
Souverän und elegant gespielt - sehr gut.
My favorite UA-cam pianist playing (as of now) my favorite recording of my favorite Transcendental Etude. The East coast storm was worth it.
Well, no, people died, but still, glad you played it, thank you, thank you.
Wonderful - thank you so much
Aside this breathtaking interpretation this film is a piece of art for itself.
Go, Valentina
I always end up laughing hard at some point in your videos, because what I see is beyond my comprehension. I'm amazed once again. Beautiful to listen to, beautiful to watch. Thank you!
I love Liszts Transcendental Etudes, and believe they are among his greatest works.My absolute favorites are Nos 10 & 11.You were born for the virtuoso romantic era.
Last time you were in Chicago, I missed your show. I hope I get the chance to see you perform again soon.
The first version (1826) of this étude was composed by Liszt when he was 15 years old!
Fantasmagoricallyfabulous! Let the French debate that one! You made it look so effortless and relaxed!!! This is one piece I will NEVER attempt! At least not in this life!
Valentina should definitely record the entire suite of Liszt's 12 Etudes D'Execution Transcendentale on CD.
or on dvd!