I’ve played this since I was a child, ( the complete original version, as here) and once it’s in muscle memory, there is a great temptation to play it at this speed. I hear Beethoven’s playfulness in this piece, after all he had just fallen in love with a 16 year old girl. It’s as if she made him feel young again, and he’s trying to express a light hearted airy innocence and purity, almost like a gaiety he thought he’d lost. Obviously there is the dark broody section, where he starts to feel insecure and negative, but generally, I feel this is Beethoven feeling playful and in love, and young again. Once you know the piece well, I think it’s hard to see it as a slow or sad piece. It might sound nice played in a slow sad way, but it doesn’t feel authentic, from a performers point of view. I can’t imagine Beethoven writing a piece with this ebb and flow, and lightness, if he wanted to write a piece to be played as Lang Lang plays it. It’s also obvious that anyone who knows the piece, would be able to play it fast or slow, heavy or light, sad or happy, but I honestly feel a movement and driving force in the music which you have to crush if you play it slowly. After all, isn’t a Bagatelle a kind of dance music , historically? I would need to check on that, but if it is, it’s obvious Valentina isn’t doing it justice, and has accidentally or deliberately missed the point.
Wow you articulate the reasoning so well. Do you write for a music journal? Thanks for adding this comment as it enriches the content here for others to appreciate.😊
@@vitaeipsofacto Thank you for your nice response. I don’t write for a journal. I’m just an amateur pianist, but when I learn a piece, I I do tend to get quite emotionally involved with the composer, particularly if it’s Beethoven or Schubert. I also try to listen to recordings going as far back as Schnabel, to see how pianists interpret a piece from different eras. I like your playing and your interpretation. Thank you for posting these videos.
@@marinka424 I'm enjoying the process of making them and sharing them. It gives me motivation to do more when people like yourself show an interest. So thank you! I like to see alternate performances too to get ideas on interpretation.
Great for you! It's in the key of A minor, so listening in respect to its key/scale is helpful. I hope you can hear and identify the left hand harmonies too. Sometimes students find it difficult moving from one section to the next and keeping the 3 eighth notes per measure at the same pace. Keep at it. This piece never gets tired, it's a masterpiece!
@@vitaeipsofacto fab playing excellent, I love playing fur elise myself, it sounds so much better when played not fast, it says poco moto with motion, when I play I tend humbly speaking stick to this tempo, brings the emotion and feeling into the piece, which yourself done and beautifully, it's a fab piece by Beethoven, greetings from wales uk 😀
Perhaps it's a matter of taste. That's the beauty of this piece, it can be played in a personalized manner and works in several tempos. I've heard it performed convincingly at both higher and lower tempos.
I guess it may seem that way to some folks. RCM level seven book has the mm as eighth note = 132-144. Poco Moto. I think my performance here stayed within that range. I can play it at any tempo you like. Having played the piece for so many years, I guess I just came to hear it at this tempo. I'm sure when I started playing it, the tempo was slower if not cautionary. : )
Great job!
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Such a beautiful piece, Joanne. Took me back eight years.
I’ve played this since I was a child, ( the complete original version, as here) and once it’s in muscle memory, there is a great temptation to play it at this speed. I hear Beethoven’s playfulness in this piece, after all he had just fallen in love with a 16 year old girl. It’s as if she made him feel young again, and he’s trying to express a light hearted airy innocence and purity, almost like a gaiety he thought he’d lost. Obviously there is the dark broody section, where he starts to feel insecure and negative, but generally, I feel this is Beethoven feeling playful and in love, and young again. Once you know the piece well, I think it’s hard to see it as a slow or sad piece. It might sound nice played in a slow sad way, but it doesn’t feel authentic, from a performers point of view. I can’t imagine Beethoven writing a piece with this ebb and flow, and lightness, if he wanted to write a piece to be played as Lang Lang plays it. It’s also obvious that anyone who knows the piece, would be able to play it fast or slow, heavy or light, sad or happy, but I honestly feel a movement and driving force in the music which you have to crush if you play it slowly. After all, isn’t a Bagatelle a kind of dance music , historically? I would need to check on that, but if it is, it’s obvious Valentina isn’t doing it justice, and has accidentally or deliberately missed the point.
Wow you articulate the reasoning so well. Do you write for a music journal? Thanks for adding this comment as it enriches the content here for others to appreciate.😊
@@vitaeipsofacto Thank you for your nice response. I don’t write for a journal. I’m just an amateur pianist, but when I learn a piece, I I do tend to get quite emotionally involved with the composer, particularly if it’s Beethoven or Schubert. I also try to listen to recordings going as far back as Schnabel, to see how pianists interpret a piece from different eras. I like your playing and your interpretation. Thank you for posting these videos.
@@marinka424 I'm enjoying the process of making them and sharing them. It gives me motivation to do more when people like yourself show an interest. So thank you! I like to see alternate performances too to get ideas on interpretation.
C'est gracieux, c'est beau et très bien interprété
Merci
Oh, that music will never get old, it’s so beautiful and you played it very good🎉
Parabéns belíssima execução ❤
Gracias!
Learning this from last 20 days, its just not easy how it looks !!
Great for you! It's in the key of A minor, so listening in respect to its key/scale is helpful. I hope you can hear and identify the left hand harmonies too. Sometimes students find it difficult moving from one section to the next and keeping the 3 eighth notes per measure at the same pace. Keep at it. This piece never gets tired, it's a masterpiece!
nahhh u play it so good, the way you express your emotion through the piece though!!
Glad it comes across that way.
The best interpretation of "Fur Elise" which I have heard to date. Most play it mechanically.
Sweet!
@@vitaeipsofacto fab playing excellent, I love playing fur elise myself, it sounds so much better when played not fast, it says poco moto with motion, when I play I tend humbly speaking stick to this tempo, brings the emotion and feeling into the piece, which yourself done and beautifully, it's a fab piece by Beethoven, greetings from wales uk 😀
I don't agree. It is too fast. Compare it with the outstanding slower und smoother performance of Valentina Lisitsa, to be found here.
Perhaps it's a matter of taste. That's the beauty of this piece, it can be played in a personalized manner and works in several tempos. I've heard it performed convincingly at both higher and lower tempos.
@@vitaeipsofacto I agree that it is a matter of taste. The faster one's are definetely not MY cup of coffee
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Why so fast?
I guess it may seem that way to some folks. RCM level seven book has the mm as eighth note = 132-144. Poco Moto. I think my performance here stayed within that range. I can play it at any tempo you like. Having played the piece for so many years, I guess I just came to hear it at this tempo. I'm sure when I started playing it, the tempo was slower if not cautionary. : )
@@vitaeipsofacto regardless, it's still too fast. Good playing though.
@@WezBolton it’s not fast at all read the music she’s going the tempo that’s written in the music
Way too fast. Best is to play it as you feel it and not rely on some music book to guide you.
ok, so maybe for you and others who feel it that way, I will record it again at a slower tempo. : )
great!
thanks!