Valentina Lisitsa's playing always fascinates me, her playing is beautiful, eloquent, impressive. Every time I listen to her, it's as if I travel into the deepest, most endless corners of music.
The piano is one of the great miracles of human invention. Added to that is the miracle of the playing of great pianists like Valentina, playing one of the miracles of composition by a great composer. All we ordinary mortals can do is be amazed, and very grateful.
I picked it out right away that the "pitch" on the first piano is not A440, but is in fact tuned a whole tone low. I checked on my Steinway D and confirmed this. This makes the "A4" 392 Hz instead of 440Hz. This is much lower than the "Mozart" A4 which would be 415Hz (typically). So instead of hearing the lyrical middle section in the usual "Db+" pitch as written, you are actually hearing her play in the key of B+. Besides her amazing technique and musical interpretation as always, it is a remarkable feat to play a piece where the hands and "inner ear" are wired to hear the usual pitch, and then compensate for the music being a whole tone lower. The other pianos that she plays are also not "on pitch" except for the second piano. They varied to some degree, but not as low as the first piano. The last piano was perfectly on pitch at A440. I'm also impressed that she was able to still perform the piece on the variety of actions that no doubt are not in "perfect regulation" and would have a very different touch from one piano to another. That is not easy to do, and demonstrates her masterful ability to quickly adapt to the instrument to keep the music going. Most people have no awareness or experience of what a pianist needs to be able to do across the spectrum of keyboards, and she demonstrated the enormous flexibility and adaptability she has to have to pull off this feat. BTW, I'm a profoundly deaf man (I can't hear my Steinway with my natural hearing) and require powerful hearing aids to hear at all. Yet I'm a reasonably accomplished pianist (but not nearly like Valentina) and also a piano technician that has tuned many pianos as well as rebuilt a number of them, including my own 1915 Steinway D. I'm also a piano teacher for my main livelihood. Having played and taught this piece, I knew right away that the pitch was "wrong" on the first piano, as it did not match the pitch I know in my head. Nevertheless, this is a lovely video recording, albeit with some pianos having an "old and tired" sound that I encounter from time to time when tuning the vast variety of pianos I come across. The last piano was the best overall. Very interesting video with the variety of pianos in different pitches of tuning.
Well I didn't notice on the first one (propably because I don't listen Chopin that often), but some of them were somewhat painful for my ears :D But yeah the last one perfect
@@tebaldo1935 in this case the piano is old so friction in the holes of iron deck is lower, hence lower force on strings. My mother is music teacher and most her children students played old Soviet pianos that were tuned to half, one or even one+half tones below 440, depending simply on age and conditions.
Очень люблю фортепианную музыку и постоянно слушаю ее в исполнении разных пианистов - советских, российских, зарубежных. Но больше всех и всего люблю игру Валентины Лисицы. Звуки, льющиеся из-под ее пальцев - такие родные и любимые! Слушая ее, забываю об усталости, проблемах и будто опять становлюсь молодой. Спасибо вам, дорогая Валентина!
Hello from POLAND, the homeland of Chopin… For many years, I have been following with attention and fascination the development of your incredible, epochal piano talent. Your interpretations of Chopin’s works have already - in my opinion - become a part of history. Thank You, Maestro Valentina, for restoring my faith in pure, immaculate beauty…
With all due respect to the Horowitz's and Cliburn's and Gould's, Valentina Lisitsa is the greatest classical pianist on earth. Her touch, her presentation, her ability to reach inside the music...combined with a physical technicality that is almost beyond human...makes her the only pianist I listen to any more. She brings the music alive in a way no one else does.
If you just listening to one pianist you make it your reference and reduce your ability to apreciate more subtilities. However your statement sounds veey very strange and personal to me. What about Cziffra,, Argerich, Samson François, Brendel..... each one i quote has something typical and universal at the same time, that cannot be done better, VL has not such a thing, to me , what makes her different is something flat and less, with kind of a no soul syste that work a bit. Even in the extraordinary performances like the Liszt totentanz, that I love to listen from her, i still can feel this emptyness... maybe it is a character but to me it is far tom relevance. Just my opinion
Whether you’re playing a modern piano or a vintage, you can make them all sound magical. It’s nice hearing you play. Have a very merry Christmas, Val. ❤
Звучание даже самой отточенной техники игры никогда не сравнится со звучанием души. Здесь же и то и другое на высочайшем уровне. Браво, Валентина Евгеньевна, вы как всегда прекрасны.
Oh my god! Such a wonderful video! Great idea to let us know and understand how this marvelous piano world is... Beautiful interpretation! The misterius piano (K O), the Schroeder and the Mulbach my favourites...with their own tipical characteristics. Once again, thank you. And please, give us much more of this kind of material!
Абсолютно великолепно! Эти древние инструменты обладают удивительным звучанием. Но мне лучше говорить о личности. И одно и то же произведение волшебным образом адаптируется к характеру каждого инструмента... Спасибо за это необыкновенное исполнение.
WOW !! this video really is brilliant ! as a start, your piano technique is delightful, not simply perfect, but so oh so sensitive ! the f and p and ff and pp there where they make sense to be. then, the idea of presenting the same composition on different pianos, each one with its own voice, not only in a row, but even mixed one into te other is joyously surprising. not to mention the superb video editing work !!!! all my most sincere congratulations to the video editor! and the final part, where only your hands are shown... that is so subtly, delicatly, beautifully hypnotizing... thank you so very much for this video. i hope one day i will have the chance to see you for real, in concert - and with a good piano...
0:00 - C.M. Schröder 4:27 - F. Muhlbach 8:20 - красный октябрь (“Red October”) Thank you for letting us hear the difference between these pianos with such a beautiful piece of music ❤️
Of all the instruments, one in particular stood out, it seemed like the re-taming of the beast, the battle between Mustang and man. I am amazed! The instrument bowed before the beauty of music performance, drowned its piano holes under the skill of Valentine. Well done ! B R A V A !!! 👏 🤗
Grandissima Valentina! È stupendo sentirti suonare su questi strumenti così diversi tra loro! Sono tornato per un attimo agli anni del Conservatorio quando studiavo su pianoforti uno diverso dall'altro! Non cambia il contenuto espressivo della musica di Chopin però e la tua bravura! È una musica per tutti e per tutte le stagioni!
Валечка, здравствуйте! Я давний Ваш почитатель, слушаю в Вашем исполнении всё что есть в RUclips. И люблю Вас не только как пианиста, мастера высочайшего класса. которому под силу произведения самой высокой степени сложности от Баха, Моцарта, Бетховена до Листа, Шопена, Рахманинова, Скрябина и Прокофьева, но и как гражданина, человека чести. Я полностью разделяю Вашу жизненную позицию. Более того восхищаюсь Вашей смелостью, при том ещё и простотой и скромностью Вы не отказываетесь играть для простого народа в любых условиях, на любых инструментах, даже самых древних и расстроенных, не боясь уронить престиж. Желаю Вам ЗДОРОВЬЯ и творческих успехов в Новом 2024 году. Ваш Вадим Ильич
Καλά Χριστούγεννα Βαλεντίνα...σε/ ευχαριστώ πολύ/ για τα/βιντεάκια/ που μου/στέλνεις/της τελευταίες μέρες/είσαι καταπληκτική/σε ευχαριστώ/σου εύχομαι/καλή χρονιά/με/υγεία/ και να/βγάζεις/ αυτά τα πολύ/ωραία βιντεάκια/ για να σε/ απολαμβάνουμε...ΧΜΚ...ΙΧΝ.
Your playing is truly amazing. But I love all the old pianos and the different tunings that they have. And I can't help myself by thinking how many different hands have graced each of those beautiful instruments.
Wonderful performance! Yes piano manufacturing space has consolidated but there are still unique sonic diversities between different major brands. You got Yamaha (including Bosendorfer and its own unique sound), Kawai, Steinway, Fazioli, Bechstein, and others - they are all different and have unique sound profiles. I also listen to Jazz and especially in Japan they have hundreds of Jazz clubs and venues all trying to differentiate themselves with different pianos installed. You get to experience these sonic profile differences when you follow the same artist and hear them play the same pieces on different branded pianos and there are worlds of difference. But I think in a classical world it's much more narrow scope of differentiation at prestigeous venues.
@@Martial-Mat Even 5-figure $ digital pianos still have ways to go to match clarity and precision of acoustic piano, despite having key-hammer mechanics of acoustic concert grand pianos (what's responsible for driving up their costs) - the Analog-to-F Digital sensors and digital processing is still lacking.
I appreciate very much your passion for "the different sound", the variety of sounds pianos once offered. I own myself two completely different ancient grands (Blüthner and Grotrian-Steinweg), and it's a pleasure to switch between them. Needless to say your playing is excellent!
The idea of showing us the different sounds of the various pianos is very timely. Your interpretation, as always, is fantastic... Merry Christmas to you and your whole family.
Every piano has its way of expressing Fantasie Impromptu. Old pianos have a more different way to express it than new pianos. And different old pianos have for certain a more different way to do it, compared to other old pianos. Perhaps one can say that old pianos have more of a personality than new pianos? But I also think with that personality it perhaps occures more problems than wanted? Thank you Valentina for this interesting lesson about old personalities. And always interesting to listen to the sound of old beauties.
I love most of her interpretations. Definitely one of the best. Why she is not more recognized in the western world is mind boggling. I would love to go to her concerts.
I had tickets to see her Rach concert in Toronto, until they "cancelled" her. So I cancelled my tickets. The Western world has minds made up mostly of mush, to answer your question.
Dear Valentina, Merry Christmas to you and your family ❤. Thanks a lot for this stunning recording. With this video on various instruments you prove, that you don't need a brand new Steinway to make the Fantasy Impromptu sounding good. It proofs your extraordinary skills and it's always a pleasure to watch your finger movements as you touch the keys, simply outstanding 🤗
A C. M. Schröder piano manufactured in Saint Petersburg until 1918 when the factory was confiscated by the Bolsheviks and renamed the brand after Lunacharsky, the Bolshevik minister for education. Probably the best Russian piano then. Previously Schröder had bought its main competitor, the Becker piano factory of Saint Petersburg. Amazing, beautiful, perfectly balanced sound.
Indeed they all sound and respond very differently, Valentina :) They likely lose a bit of power with time, so it can be more of a challenge to get enough volume out to a large audience. But in front of some quality studio monitors it's very interesting to listen to all of them. Although I had to readjust the volume as something else came on. Lovely stuff! Thanks for doing this. I love it and had to listen twice! And will probably do it again.
Grazie anima bella , grazie per il tuo tocco magico che nutre le anime umane. Sii benedetta sempre, Buon Natale e splendido anno nuovo alle anime umane che si riconoscono, pace e amore per tutti.
love the sound of the first piano the second one also reminds me of my first piano a little which we had to keep in the ' shed at the bottom of the garden as my dad was too ill to have it in the house , unfortunately it was crushed when we had a storm and a tree fell on the building.
If someone wants to know how to tune an (especially old) piano just aks me ;) I "found" an C. Goetze upright made in Berlin or St. Petersburg, around 1910 or similar. Found a note inside "repaired 09/10/18". This was 2017. So i did another repair of nearly everything and took it home. Repaired and tuned it some more and finally was able to learn to play again. I had learned to play on an electric piano when i was a child and did not play for 25 years after that. Such a joy to have a purely mechanical instrument without power button, humming transformer inside, awful keystroke, flat sound ... Listening to Valentina is a even greater joy - as always! And especially the Becker produces a sound that is so much more free, vibrating, enjoyable than all Bechsteins, Boesendorfer and of course Steinways ..
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she is number one piano performer in my mind .
Not only yours!
and mine...!
I think u need to be crazy to understand and play the music as well she dos.m her Interpretation are so deep! She is also my number one😭❤️
@@曼巴黑 ok, solipsist.
Yes
Valentina Lisitsa's playing always fascinates me, her playing is beautiful, eloquent, impressive. Every time I listen to her, it's as if I travel into the deepest, most endless corners of music.
Totally agree. However I think her tempo is a bit on the faster side.
@@sdinc1Ikr, it still sounds well when it's played faster but I prefer a bit slower.
Valentina has a great talent and a big heart, we love her very much and are very grateful to her ❤
The piano is one of the great miracles of human invention. Added to that is the miracle of the playing of great pianists like Valentina, playing one of the miracles of composition by a great composer. All we ordinary mortals can do is be amazed, and very grateful.
I picked it out right away that the "pitch" on the first piano is not A440, but is in fact tuned a whole tone low. I checked on my Steinway D and confirmed this. This makes the "A4" 392 Hz instead of 440Hz. This is much lower than the "Mozart" A4 which would be 415Hz (typically).
So instead of hearing the lyrical middle section in the usual "Db+" pitch as written, you are actually hearing her play in the key of B+. Besides her amazing technique and musical interpretation as always, it is a remarkable feat to play a piece where the hands and "inner ear" are wired to hear the usual pitch, and then compensate for the music being a whole tone lower.
The other pianos that she plays are also not "on pitch" except for the second piano. They varied to some degree, but not as low as the first piano. The last piano was perfectly on pitch at A440.
I'm also impressed that she was able to still perform the piece on the variety of actions that no doubt are not in "perfect regulation" and would have a very different touch from one piano to another. That is not easy to do, and demonstrates her masterful ability to quickly adapt to the instrument to keep the music going. Most people have no awareness or experience of what a pianist needs to be able to do across the spectrum of keyboards, and she demonstrated the enormous flexibility and adaptability she has to have to pull off this feat.
BTW, I'm a profoundly deaf man (I can't hear my Steinway with my natural hearing) and require powerful hearing aids to hear at all. Yet I'm a reasonably accomplished pianist (but not nearly like Valentina) and also a piano technician that has tuned many pianos as well as rebuilt a number of them, including my own 1915 Steinway D. I'm also a piano teacher for my main livelihood.
Having played and taught this piece, I knew right away that the pitch was "wrong" on the first piano, as it did not match the pitch I know in my head. Nevertheless, this is a lovely video recording, albeit with some pianos having an "old and tired" sound that I encounter from time to time when tuning the vast variety of pianos I come across. The last piano was the best overall.
Very interesting video with the variety of pianos in different pitches of tuning.
Well I didn't notice on the first one (propably because I don't listen Chopin that often), but some of them were somewhat painful for my ears :D
But yeah the last one perfect
音程が、あれ？って思う所がありました。調律出来てないのかなと思いました。
言葉に出来ない素晴らしい演奏で、せめて一生に一度は生で聴いてみたいです。
Accordatura sul la a 440 hz è la peggiore (standard nazista), molto meglio 432 hz oppure il 392 barocco....
@@tebaldo1935 in this case the piano is old so friction in the holes of iron deck is lower, hence lower force on strings. My mother is music teacher and most her children students played old Soviet pianos that were tuned to half, one or even one+half tones below 440, depending simply on age and conditions.
I noticed right away too, it was actually really cool, I enjoyed the lower tones.
Очень люблю фортепианную музыку и постоянно слушаю ее в исполнении разных пианистов - советских, российских, зарубежных. Но больше всех и всего люблю игру Валентины Лисицы. Звуки, льющиеся из-под ее пальцев - такие родные и любимые! Слушая ее, забываю об усталости, проблемах и будто опять становлюсь молодой. Спасибо вам, дорогая Валентина!
Your fingers take me into another world😌
Богиня фортепиано!
Фантастическая Валентина!
Обожаю!❤
Hello from POLAND, the homeland of Chopin… For many years, I have been following with attention and fascination the development of your incredible, epochal piano talent. Your interpretations of Chopin’s works have already - in my opinion - become a part of history. Thank You, Maestro Valentina, for restoring my faith in pure, immaculate beauty…
With all due respect to the Horowitz's and Cliburn's and Gould's, Valentina Lisitsa is the greatest classical pianist on earth. Her touch, her presentation, her ability to reach inside the music...combined with a physical technicality that is almost beyond human...makes her the only pianist I listen to any more. She brings the music alive in a way no one else does.
Yep yep yep.
If you just listening to one pianist you make it your reference and reduce your ability to apreciate more subtilities. However your statement sounds veey very strange and personal to me. What about Cziffra,, Argerich, Samson François, Brendel..... each one i quote has something typical and universal at the same time, that cannot be done better, VL has not such a thing, to me , what makes her different is something flat and less, with kind of a no soul syste that work a bit. Even in the extraordinary performances like the Liszt totentanz, that I love to listen from her, i still can feel this emptyness... maybe it is a character but to me it is far tom relevance. Just my opinion
Listen to yundi li’s version imo its the best I have heard!
@@savonliquide7677you mean, when people play less exaggerated ie different than what you’re used to - which all composers do - you don’t like it?
Couldn't agree more!
I've been waiting for so long to hear you play Fantasie Impromptu. Thank you, I loved it.
Valentina Lisitsa plays Fantasie Impromptu c#minor ruclips.net/video/6bYdZo4MYEw/видео.htmlsi=QI1-pGiaio6UEThx
So, so lovely, such a gift this season. Much ,much love,Michael and Suzy.🌞🌝🎄😘🌟
Whether you’re playing a modern piano or a vintage, you can make them all sound magical. It’s nice hearing you play. Have a very merry Christmas, Val. ❤
Звучание даже самой отточенной техники игры никогда не сравнится со звучанием души. Здесь же и то и другое на высочайшем уровне. Браво, Валентина Евгеньевна, вы как всегда прекрасны.
Absolutely magnicient.
Valentina, I love this beautiful and fantastic performance of Chopin. Have a very merry Christmas 🎄🎁.
Wonderful to hear you again, especially on these many splendour pianos- a very happy Christmas from Sakuntala in India
Valentina sei GRANDISSIMA! Ascoltarti è sempre una straordinaria emozione. Grazie
Bravo! Thanks for taking us travel through time by music. What a marvellous way to express this timeless piece❤
Oh my god! Such a wonderful video! Great idea to let us know and understand how this marvelous piano world is... Beautiful interpretation! The misterius piano (K O), the Schroeder and the Mulbach my favourites...with their own tipical characteristics. Once again, thank you. And please, give us much more of this kind of material!
Абсолютно великолепно! Эти древние инструменты обладают удивительным звучанием. Но мне лучше говорить о личности. И одно и то же произведение волшебным образом адаптируется к характеру каждого инструмента... Спасибо за это необыкновенное исполнение.
Блистательная, обожаемая Валентина! ❤❤❤
Уже 4 раза был на Ваших концертах, мечтаю ещё! 😍
Your performances and your videos on this channel are truly mesmerising 🥀...
Extraordinary musicality and curiosity exploring - wonderful thank you❤
WOW !! this video really is brilliant ! as a start, your piano technique is delightful, not simply perfect, but so oh so sensitive ! the f and p and ff and pp there where they make sense to be. then, the idea of presenting the same composition on different pianos, each one with its own voice, not only in a row, but even mixed one into te other is joyously surprising. not to mention the superb video editing work !!!! all my most sincere congratulations to the video editor! and the final part, where only your hands are shown... that is so subtly, delicatly, beautifully hypnotizing... thank you so very much for this video. i hope one day i will have the chance to see you for real, in concert - and with a good piano...
Восхитительно! Спасибо, дорогая Валентина!
0:00 - C.M. Schröder
4:27 - F. Muhlbach
8:20 - красный октябрь (“Red October”)
Thank you for letting us hear the difference between these pianos with such a beautiful piece of music ❤️
it's red October (красный октябрь) krasny octyabr'
Of all the instruments, one in particular stood out, it seemed like the re-taming of the beast, the battle between Mustang and man. I am amazed! The instrument bowed before the beauty of music performance, drowned its piano holes under the skill of Valentine. Well done ! B R A V A !!! 👏 🤗
Thank you Valentina! You are great!
I wish you a merry Christmas. Thank you for this share in music, the classical music is a beautiful discovering for my mind.
Grandissima Valentina! È stupendo sentirti suonare su questi strumenti così diversi tra loro! Sono tornato per un attimo agli anni del Conservatorio quando studiavo su pianoforti uno diverso dall'altro! Non cambia il contenuto espressivo della musica di Chopin però e la tua bravura! È una musica per tutti e per tutte le stagioni!
Валечка, здравствуйте! Я давний Ваш почитатель, слушаю в Вашем исполнении всё что есть в RUclips. И люблю Вас не только как пианиста, мастера высочайшего класса. которому под силу произведения самой высокой степени сложности от Баха, Моцарта, Бетховена до Листа, Шопена, Рахманинова, Скрябина и Прокофьева, но и как гражданина, человека чести. Я полностью разделяю Вашу жизненную позицию. Более того восхищаюсь Вашей смелостью, при том ещё и простотой и скромностью Вы не отказываетесь играть для простого народа в любых условиях, на любых инструментах, даже самых древних и расстроенных, не боясь уронить престиж. Желаю Вам ЗДОРОВЬЯ и творческих успехов в Новом 2024 году. Ваш Вадим Ильич
Καλά Χριστούγεννα Βαλεντίνα...σε/ ευχαριστώ πολύ/ για τα/βιντεάκια/ που μου/στέλνεις/της τελευταίες μέρες/είσαι καταπληκτική/σε ευχαριστώ/σου εύχομαι/καλή χρονιά/με/υγεία/ και να/βγάζεις/ αυτά τα πολύ/ωραία βιντεάκια/ για να σε/ απολαμβάνουμε...ΧΜΚ...ΙΧΝ.
Such an amazing C.Bechstein sound of that period instrument, lovely!
So amazing!!!! Always a joy to listen to Valentina. I can’t believe we have access to such talent to listen to here on RUclips
Thank you Valentina for to share with us your performances! I love you!❤ Is wonderful to hear Chopin with those old pianos!
Your playing is truly amazing. But I love all the old pianos and the different tunings that they have. And I can't help myself by thinking how many different hands have graced each of those beautiful instruments.
Wonderful performance! Yes piano manufacturing space has consolidated but there are still unique sonic diversities between different major brands. You got Yamaha (including Bosendorfer and its own unique sound), Kawai, Steinway, Fazioli, Bechstein, and others - they are all different and have unique sound profiles. I also listen to Jazz and especially in Japan they have hundreds of Jazz clubs and venues all trying to differentiate themselves with different pianos installed. You get to experience these sonic profile differences when you follow the same artist and hear them play the same pieces on different branded pianos and there are worlds of difference. But I think in a classical world it's much more narrow scope of differentiation at prestigeous venues.
In a digital world, there's no excuse for not being able to create the precise profile of any piano you like.
@@Martial-Mat Even 5-figure $ digital pianos still have ways to go to match clarity and precision of acoustic piano, despite having key-hammer mechanics of acoustic concert grand pianos (what's responsible for driving up their costs) - the Analog-to-F
Digital sensors and digital processing is still lacking.
Oh my God! Considering the sound board of the piano which is totally different Tune, she still played it perfection! Love her sooo much
Bellísima!!! ❤interpretación
I appreciate very much your passion for "the different sound", the variety of sounds pianos once offered. I own myself two completely different ancient grands (Blüthner and Grotrian-Steinweg), and it's a pleasure to switch between them. Needless to say your playing is excellent!
gran bel regalo di Natale, grazie Signora
The idea of showing us the different sounds of the various pianos is very timely. Your interpretation, as always, is fantastic... Merry Christmas to you and your whole family.
You are unbelieveable and with your music you make my days better.
Sublime interpretación. además hermosa mujer...
The best pianist of all times! 🥇🏆❤
Magnificent!!!
Congratulations, it's great to hear the difference between three different instruments, I'm looking forward to the next video with great interest.
表現力が大好きです
Quanti colori perduti... Grazie Valentina!! 🙏🖖
Thanks for all your effort and may you be satisfied.
Chopin, to me, is the best composer, and to hear Valentina playing Chopin is just marvellous. 💝
Как я люблю это исполнение ,спасибо мастер
A delight even in wintertime. Lovely!
Her playing is now a morning addiction. I eagerly await a new video.
You play the Fantasie Impromptu beautifully!
Every piano has its way of expressing Fantasie Impromptu. Old pianos have a more different way to express it than new pianos. And different old pianos have for certain a more different way to do it, compared to other old pianos. Perhaps one can say that old pianos have more of a personality than new pianos? But I also think with that personality it perhaps occures more problems than wanted? Thank you Valentina for this interesting lesson about old personalities. And always interesting to listen to the sound of old beauties.
Sempre bom escutá-la, mesmo que eu prefira um tempo mais lento. 🎉
Marvelous playing
I love most of her interpretations. Definitely one of the best. Why she is not more recognized in the western world is mind boggling. I would love to go to her concerts.
I had tickets to see her Rach concert in Toronto, until they "cancelled" her. So I cancelled my tickets. The Western world has minds made up mostly of mush, to answer your question.
This is my favorite kind of video: Fantaisie Impromptu on period instruments!! ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Dear Valentina, Merry Christmas to you and your family ❤. Thanks a lot for this stunning recording.
With this video on various instruments you prove, that you don't need a brand new Steinway to make the Fantasy Impromptu sounding good.
It proofs your extraordinary skills and it's always a pleasure to watch your finger movements as you touch the keys, simply outstanding 🤗
I love the fluidity
¡Cómo siempre, Valentina fantástica! ❤❤
I clicked on this almost as fast as Valentina's fingers playing Chopin's polyrithms
Valentina, I love this beautiful concert ❤❤. Have a blessed and beautiful April 💐💐💕
Valentina tiene una tecnica muy especial...A demas particularmente versatil...La admiro profundamente!....Saludos desde Argentina....
GRANDE VALENTINA !!!! - From Argentina CONGRATULATIONS and WE LOVE YOU !!!!!!!!....😎...😎...😎.................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes. The best pianist. I was in Bath England just before COVID and her Liszt number 2 was magical
Beautiful old piano. Unique sound.
Валентина расширяет границы возможного и раскрывает весь потенциал этого фортепиано. Искусство ведущей пианистки.
I love the way you play ❤️. Thank you 🙏
Fantastic thank you beautifull Lady❤
Wow an ancient out of tuned pianos making beautiful sounds at the hands of our beloved Valentina Lisitsa!! 😌😍
They aren’t out of tune. They are just tuned differently than we are accustomed. These are period piano tunings.
Playing in a fur coat - you have that real Slavic princessvibe going on.
Superb performance, but then I expect nothing less from you.
A C. M. Schröder piano manufactured in Saint Petersburg until 1918 when the factory was confiscated by the Bolsheviks and renamed the brand after Lunacharsky, the Bolshevik minister for education. Probably the best Russian piano then. Previously Schröder had bought its main competitor, the Becker piano factory of Saint Petersburg. Amazing, beautiful, perfectly balanced sound.
古いピアノの音色も素晴らしいですね
Valentina’s playing is the best…and beautiful, too! Almost unbelievable. I can only listen to her version of this now. ❤
Indeed they all sound and respond very differently, Valentina :)
They likely lose a bit of power with time, so it can be more of a challenge to get enough volume out to a large audience.
But in front of some quality studio monitors it's very interesting to listen to all of them. Although I had to readjust the volume as something else came on.
Lovely stuff!
Thanks for doing this.
I love it and had to listen twice! And will probably do it again.
Всегда рады слышать вас и не только ❤❤❤ Спасибо
Grazie anima bella , grazie per il tuo tocco magico che nutre le anime umane. Sii benedetta sempre, Buon Natale e splendido anno nuovo alle anime umane che si riconoscono, pace e amore per tutti.
It's amazing,despite old Grands her virtuosity is such convincing in offering the finest details of the composition.Overwelming Valentina.❤🌞🌞🌞🎵🎶🙏🏼
love the sound of the first piano the second one also reminds me of my first piano a little which we had to keep in the ' shed at the bottom of the garden as my dad was too ill to have it in the house , unfortunately it was crushed when we had a storm and a tree fell on the building.
I've been waiting this for so long! Beautiful, Valentina! 😍👏
She is absolutely the best
Im awestruck. It almost seemed you sustained a trill or two, and it worked brilliantly. You took a great work and made it your own. Bravo!!
💖💖💖...even her hands are expressive
Merry Christmas ~~
I like Chopin … by your piano.
Perfection 🌟❤
Merry Christmas......My favorite Valentina❣💞💓💗💖💝💌
If someone wants to know how to tune an (especially old) piano just aks me ;)
I "found" an C. Goetze upright made in Berlin or St. Petersburg, around 1910 or similar.
Found a note inside "repaired 09/10/18". This was 2017. So i did another repair of nearly everything and took it home.
Repaired and tuned it some more and finally was able to learn to play again.
I had learned to play on an electric piano when i was a child and did not play for 25 years after that.
Such a joy to have a purely mechanical instrument without power button, humming transformer inside,
awful keystroke, flat sound ...
Listening to Valentina is a even greater joy - as always!
And especially the Becker produces a sound that is so much more free, vibrating, enjoyable than all Bechsteins, Boesendorfer and of course Steinways ..
Great Valentina!!! You are the best!!!! ❤❤❤
Grande Valentina! Cheers from Italy
Очень круто!!!! Как бы я хотел уметь играть это произведение! Да техники не хватит....
Bravo Valentina....
Truly amazing she is devine
Ohh...MON AMOUR...💟
best song and best play~!
❤bravo❤
Damn, girl! I felt like I was hearing Chopin play! 👏👏👏👏👏
Oops. I thought it was a Bechstein. But I love the adventure. This is great. Brilliant idea. Your playing is marvelous.