Thank you for putting that into words. I love when a performer does that. The famous pieces are often famous for a reason, but they're so overplayed we forget that reason, until a great performer reminds us.
It is considered easy piece but by notes only. I have never seen anyone capable to grasp a true feelings in it however. And Lisitza performs it the way so she shut up all the disrespectful audience. Just remarkable.
Subverting expectations is at the base of humor. Every joke that works finishes with an unexpected punchline. Playing this piece in this sort of situation is so unexpected, that many people reacted finding it funny. This is a pianist that, in similar situations, has chosen to play Liszt's _La Campanella._ The laughs lasted for a very short time and silence quickly resumed. There was no booing and no persistent signs of disrespect. You're free to disagree, of course, but I mantain my understanding that there was just surprise, nothing more. Actually, I thinnk she did it on purpose, with a humorous spirit.
Wrong. Valentina Lisitsa is the Empress of the Universe and...and...she does not have ego. I have met her twice in London. She also plays street pianos if she espies one & has a few minutes to spare. 🐾🐾🌞😷
"How Many in the World Have Awakened The setting sun illuminates the evening clouds The evening light is always tinged with sorrow Last rays have beauty for only a moment The darkness seeps through edges of the clouds The last flash dies of in the Central Plain How many buildings will remain after the end times Where will people go The wise ones will surpass the Kings and Lords Early 2013 *** Why Do You Refuse Before descending to the world, you made a pact with the Creator When Dafa is spread widely, make sure you are found I tell you the truth now, why do you refuse it How many people have their minds filled with the lies of the persecution Kind people, don’t go along with the propaganda The path we take is guided by Gods To save people is my promise to Gods Before the great disaster comes, we must seize every minute, every second To save people, I do not fear ridicule To save people, I do not fear brutality Only when all beings gain the Fa will my wish be fulfilled Only when all beings gain salvation will my wish be fulfilled Summer 2013 *** A Dream From Long Ago I’ve been searching for that dream from long ago It was like a fairy tale, yet incomparably sacred At that time, I signed a contract in heaven I kept descending, just to fulfill my mission Reincarnating again and again, lost in the sea of suffering Finally that distant dream becomes true The Creator has come to spread Dafa, saving beings to high levels For this I came down to the world to wait for the Fa I have fulfilled the contract from a prehistoric time What is taking place is not a fairy tale Many people have the same dream as I Summer 2013 *** I Help You Cleanse Yourself Dafa disciples have told you the truth behind illusion Those truly poisoned are the mass of people, including you Believing the lies, you will disintegrate along with the red demon Telling the truth to save people-this compassion comes from my heart Reaping no reward, I often get up early on cold days Having no time to eat, nor rest in steaming hot weather To save people, I withstand terror and pressure Since I promised Gods to wake you up in the time of danger You came from heaven, and gaining Dafa is your purpose That will help beings in your paradise escape calamity This is the reason for your descending to be human Do not let the red demon brainwash you with Party culture Beings in your paradise are longing for you December 2, 2014" Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin IV, from Falun Dafa teachings)
She has managed to take what is considered a cliche- a beginner piece, over-played, simple- to something that makes you feel as if you've been transformed to heaven. You feel utter peace when you hear her play this. It's absolutely delicious. Sometimes it's the easier pieces that really shine when expert like her plays them.
Well said, but also it's a good way for beginners to understand the difference between a real musician and a beginner that just wants to hit all the notes. I don't really agree with the slow tempo that Valentina plays, I prefer it to have more of a "march" feel, but anyway you can straight away say her rendition is super high quality and well thought out.
Why it is so called SIMPLE ? It is NOT SIMPLE AT ALL It’s touchings and rhymes including appropriate tempos together is really HARD TO MASTER …. I just hear many people s playing this song SOUNDS REALLY UGLY AND LOOKS SO DULL A so called (eligible or qualified )candidate play this EVEN WORSE …, 😅😅😅😅😅
@@yonatanhoresh2695 If you dont like the speed which btw is the appropriate for this piece, go hear another type of music. As you said it is slow. Therefore just do not criticize such videos because you cannot be the person who is worthy to do so.
This listening to her play this it is almost hypnotic no? She plays with such ease that it is as if the music is emanating from itself, I don't know if I have heard Fur Elise this way before.
I discovered her about 5 years ago then watched her being interviewed. I loved her sense of humour in the way that she described her fingers, almost as if each one had its own personality. It’s a privilege to watch her play this - I’ve felt tears forming at the beauty of what certain musicians can create. It just happened again.
The audience laughed at the beginning because it was such a simple piece. But to be honest, no one plays this piece with such emotion and artistry as her!
The opening of this piece of music is easy to play, but it certainly gets harder towards the end and by no means should be classed as easy. There are abridged versions of this for less capable students, but it does take an accomplished pianist to give this a half decent performance. A great performance takes great pianist!
There goes Für Elise once and for all. The audience laughs because it typically is the first piece any aspiring piano player learns. So everyone who knows someone with a piano, has heard some timid attempt at playing it. It has become, in some ways, lesson 1. Now, the fact that Valentina Lisitsa comes in for a 4th (!!) encore and starts playing the much listened tune, well, that´s kind of unexpected and funny. Nobody laughed at Beethoven, ok?
doppiamente so you are saying because you can play this piece too that she's not good? By the way the audience laughed because the violinist struck the piano with his bow
I agree. While playing, Valentina is like in love with the keyboard. So beautiful to see her playing... Ludwig van would surely have fallen in love with her !
To those that have said she doesn't play with much emotion on her harder pieces that she's played, this is proof she can play with an absolute metric ton of emotion. Those pieces just require much more focus on musicality, quickness, and make it hard to flood each note and passage with emotion, but she nonetheless does it.
+j luke Hypernova listen to a computer play fur elise and then this. The computer doesn't have emotion and the human does. Trust me it's pretty obvious
People may have laughed, and you all may say this is an easy piece, but I have never heard it before so well played. It completely changed the way I think of it. It's so beautiful played like this! Amazing!
Love this pianist. Lady in Red is so beautiful. No show off bullshit. Serious artist. She has character and vision. (different from shitty pianists you see everywhere)
What I love about this is the subtleness with which she opens every phrase, the way she increases the intensity only to slow down again, and the way she is using silence in the very right amount. She also reminds me of Arrau in the way she is taking the time to acknowledge and bring out the sound of every single note. I have never heard a better interpretation of this piece. Superb.
Everyone here is saying "I can play that piece it's so easy why is she playing such an easy piece!"I best 90 percent of you slay the piece trying to play it as fast as you can.
How many top pianists nowadays back down from the virtuosic extravaganzas of classical music and play an all time easy classic with such beauty? Fur Elise has turned from overrated to shamefully underrated.
It is not easy to play! Easy notes, but hard to play with such a passion. But I can play "Fur Elise" now. See on my channel and please subscribe to it)!
it feels like your floating on beautiful grassy field with flowers and trees and you can hear the creek gently going down the hill with birds chirping and it is on a sunny day and it is very breezy
Oh, this is so beautiful. Its simplicity makes it so candid - how amazing that a piece so universal can be so freshly interpreted. A testament to Valentina, one of my favourite pianists.
How a piece that people call "simple" can be elevated to a heavenly level, Valentina truly floats over the piano. Is there a word beyond perfection? This is it
Miss Lisista, I doubt you'll ever read this, but I want you to know that your talent really moves me. You have a great sense of softness, and I know it doesn't mean much coming from some random nobody, but I wanted to thank you for all of this. You're one of the greatest artist I've heard so far.
She is a true musician. She squeezed every drop of music out of that piece and didn't deride it for its simplicity. She brought the beauty of the music out in all of its elegance and modesty. Amazing. I have never heard this song played with such care.
I think it's incredibly sweet that she played this piece and that the audience got a gentle laugh - I don't think they were mocking her. I think it was just an entertaining surprise. I would probably laugh in surprise, too, as though there was some sort of delightful secret I was in on! And then she plays beautifully and there's not a single sound in the room because everybody appreciates Beethoven so well-played. Well done! :)
It's easy to forget that this is a beautiful, masterfully written piece of music. Yes, it was the first piece (or first real piece, anyway) that I learned, just like many other people, but the reason for this is mostly because I was drawn to its beauty. Like Canon in D, or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, its popularity doesn't diminish its beauty.
I believe that technically the peace is not hard to play and even a child can do it. Most important thing from my standpoint is the level of perfection you can bring to this heavenly music.
She is not playing with her hands but with soul. I love how she live through every music piece what she plays and always delivers more like music story than regular music.
+Britney Vigil That is because she played something way more difficult before in that concert and Für Elise is more like a beginner to intermediate piece.
Only having recently begun piano do I come to realize how much humanity resides in music. It's easy to play. It is an entirely different matter, however, to make it sound good. Definitely not as easy as she makes it look.
He loved her. He composed a song for her. A quite lovely song, as it were. No one knows for sure who she was. Only that her name was Elise. She must have been quite wonderful in her day. Dignified, graceful, and elegant as it were. Thank You Herr Beethoven. It's beauty still evokes deep seated emotions in me some two hundred-forty years later. I think I understand how much he loved this woman. I loved a woman like that a long time ago. I missed my chance, and then shortly thereafter, She died. There really do exist some things that are timeless. Love is one of them. It is actually the greatest thing extant. Nothing can compare. Amazing. Inspiring. Still, to this day. Close your eyes, and listen. Love. " And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but the { greatest } of these is love. " Any questions ? I didn't think so.
Valentina Lisitsa spielt das Stück in absoluter Vollendung. Sie und das Instrument werden zur Einheit. Ich habe zeitweise aufgehört zu atmen. Fantastisch.
Section A and it's repeats are easy to play and so many beginners only play that part. The 32nd notes to play at correct tempo would defeat so many intermediate players, there is certainly no reason for an audience to laugh. There are other technically tricky parts, but the really tricky things are less obvious, subtle and delicate dynamics and subtle changes in tempo that even students on high grades usually don't achieve very well. This version is about as good as it gets and it is certainly not hurried as she has been accused of on some other pieces.
I'm getting a piano this or next week and gonna see if I can learn this (never played piano in my life). Don't want to be arrogant but I feel I gonna learn this in so little time with no effort lol BTW, gonna edit this comment after a few weeks when I realize its actually difficult and I can't play it well lol
dude she plays way more technically difficult songs, i’m assuming this was taken from a whole concert of her playing multiple songs. she probably played something as hard as la campanella before this, so the audience hearing fur elise; one of the more simple but recognizable song is funny to them. Therefore, they laughed.
I've always loved this Beethoven composition. No matter WHO plays it, it (to me) is always one of my favorites......I even have it playing on my doorbell............
The audience laughed because she played Fur Elise which is very common for the beginners. But when she continued playing that song we can see that she played it in a different way that makes the audience applaud her very much.
In all her music this young lady is an absolute pleasure to listen to and a sheer joy to watch. So fluid, so sensitive, so totally ‘simpatico’ Transporting.
Fur Elise has been one of my favorites since I was a child. But I’ve never heard it played so softly before. Ms. Lisitsa is the greatest pianist I have ever heard.
For me this is the BEST so far of all I have listened to. So seamlessly professionally rendered with an air of full comprehension of the mood and soul of the song.
I had a toy as a child that if you twisted the blue grip it would play this piece and the other end was a rattle. For the longest time I wondered what the music was. It calmed me down. And seeing it now I miss the toy, however childish it may seem.
Im im so grateful to have heard this, the notes soothe my ears like cheese tastes on my tongue, i cannot believe how soft elegant and smooth this performance was! So beautiful!
Valentina Lisitsa is my absolute favorite pianist -- I am mesmerized by her hands and technique. On this piece (on of my favorites), I am so happy she plays it at this moderately slow, contemplative tempo. I've heard others play it at a much quicker tempo and it feels so rushed. Thank you for sharing your awe-inspiring gift, Valentina!
I so remember my grand mother and my aunt Hélène playing Beethoven's "Für Elise" just for me when I was a child and Valentina's play made me nostalgic and the way she plays and feels the notes are so impressive
One of the reasons the audience laughed in the beginning is probably because, as @Lydia G. and @윤한일 said, the song brought them back to their childhood or people didn't expect a relatively simple piece. But, there is another reason people are missing. I don't know how to explain this, but the very first melody of this music is dubbed a SUPER CHILDISH lyric in South Korea, which goes: You are a gorilla And i'm handsome while you're ugly. Since this song is in the beginner program of most of the piano lessons (and nearly everyone tries piano in their childhood in South Korea), almost all of the young kids know this melody and that probably is the reason that the song was used to tease other kids.
I can't believe how she manages to make this song that everyone has heard so many times sound so refreshing, special and beautiful.
Thank you for putting that into words. I love when a performer does that. The famous pieces are often famous for a reason, but they're so overplayed we forget that reason, until a great performer reminds us.
heatedfrost you couldn't be more right. That was more than music.
Song?!
It was always refreshing, special, and beautiful.
not easy at all
I don't care if it's "easy to play", it's still one of the best pieces ever made.
yeeah 🙌
agree
It's not as easy as it sounds, but definately not the hardest piece ever
I started playing this when I was 6
It sure is the easiest piece that Beethoven composed. He was so inteligent that even his easy pieces were not thaaat easy.
i love how she "caress" the piano keys
is this intentionally meant to be a 'shigatsu wa kimi no uso'/'your lie in april' reference?
ehm... no
Lord Koldarth wow impressive that you were able to describe her playing in that way :D *applause applause*
LOL
Lord Koldarth unlike musicalbasics does😂😂
It is considered easy piece but by notes only. I have never seen anyone capable to grasp a true feelings in it however. And Lisitza performs it the way so she shut up all the disrespectful audience. Just remarkable.
I don't think they were disrespectful; they were surprised.
fur elise is beethoven showing franz liszt how to write a melody.
@@Doutsoldome they may not mean to be that way, but they can be disrespectful and surprised at once, which happens to be the case.
Subverting expectations is at the base of humor. Every joke that works finishes with an unexpected punchline. Playing this piece in this sort of situation is so unexpected, that many people reacted finding it funny. This is a pianist that, in similar situations, has chosen to play Liszt's _La Campanella._ The laughs lasted for a very short time and silence quickly resumed. There was no booing and no persistent signs of disrespect. You're free to disagree, of course, but I mantain my understanding that there was just surprise, nothing more.
Actually, I thinnk she did it on purpose, with a humorous spirit.
Disrespectful audience?
This interpretation = Valentina sacrificing ego for the grace this song greatly deserved.
Marice they only laughed because the violinist hit the piano with his bow.
Wow nicely said! Realy, you are absolutely right about that!
It’s a piece
Wrong.
Valentina Lisitsa is the Empress of the Universe and...and...she does not have ego.
I have met her twice in London.
She also plays street pianos if she espies one & has a few minutes to spare. 🐾🐾🌞😷
"How Many in the World Have Awakened
The setting sun illuminates the evening clouds
The evening light is always tinged with sorrow
Last rays have beauty for only a moment
The darkness seeps through edges of the clouds
The last flash dies of in the Central Plain
How many buildings will remain after the end times
Where will people go
The wise ones will surpass the Kings and Lords
Early 2013
***
Why Do You Refuse
Before descending to the world, you made a pact with the Creator
When Dafa is spread widely, make sure you are found
I tell you the truth now, why do you refuse it
How many people have their minds filled with the lies of the persecution
Kind people, don’t go along with the propaganda
The path we take is guided by Gods
To save people is my promise to Gods
Before the great disaster comes, we must seize every minute, every second
To save people, I do not fear ridicule
To save people, I do not fear brutality
Only when all beings gain the Fa will my wish be fulfilled
Only when all beings gain salvation will my wish be fulfilled
Summer 2013
***
A Dream From Long Ago
I’ve been searching for that dream from long ago
It was like a fairy tale, yet incomparably sacred
At that time, I signed a contract in heaven
I kept descending, just to fulfill my mission
Reincarnating again and again, lost in the sea of suffering
Finally that distant dream becomes true
The Creator has come to spread Dafa, saving beings to high levels
For this I came down to the world to wait for the Fa
I have fulfilled the contract from a prehistoric time
What is taking place is not a fairy tale
Many people have the same dream as I
Summer 2013
***
I Help You Cleanse Yourself
Dafa disciples have told you the truth behind illusion
Those truly poisoned are the mass of people, including you
Believing the lies, you will disintegrate along with the red demon
Telling the truth to save people-this compassion comes from my heart
Reaping no reward, I often get up early on cold days
Having no time to eat, nor rest in steaming hot weather
To save people, I withstand terror and pressure
Since I promised Gods to wake you up in the time of danger
You came from heaven, and gaining Dafa is your purpose
That will help beings in your paradise escape calamity
This is the reason for your descending to be human
Do not let the red demon brainwash you with Party culture
Beings in your paradise are longing for you
December 2, 2014"
Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin IV, from Falun Dafa teachings)
the passion in her fingertips.....timeless
an easy piece to playbut I have never heard it of this perfection.
Couldn't agree more
jeahere ditto
absolutely :)
its not that easy
her hands are a ballet
tellab a era sdnah reh
I agree with you this is amazing
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sdrawkcab!!
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Some might argue it is pure theater. Or wasted motion.
She has managed to take what is considered a cliche- a beginner piece, over-played, simple- to something that makes you feel as if you've been transformed to heaven. You feel utter peace when you hear her play this. It's absolutely delicious. Sometimes it's the easier pieces that really shine when expert like her plays them.
Well said, but also it's a good way for beginners to understand the difference between a real musician and a beginner that just wants to hit all the notes. I don't really agree with the slow tempo that Valentina plays, I prefer it to have more of a "march" feel, but anyway you can straight away say her rendition is super high quality and well thought out.
Why it is so called SIMPLE ?
It is NOT SIMPLE AT ALL
It’s touchings and rhymes including appropriate tempos together is really HARD TO MASTER ….
I just hear many people s playing this song SOUNDS REALLY UGLY AND LOOKS SO DULL
A so called (eligible or qualified )candidate play this EVEN WORSE …, 😅😅😅😅😅
this woman is a goddess, I have no words to describe her performances
Nascar Fan Too slow, maybe? Thank god for that fast part with the Gs, because I swear I would've otherwise fallen asleep.
@@yonatanhoresh2695 If you dont like the speed which btw is the appropriate for this piece, go hear another type of music. As you said it is slow. Therefore just do not criticize such videos because you cannot be the person who is worthy to do so.
Her playing is really, really soft. Reminds me of Clifford Curzon's playing style.
This listening to her play this it is almost hypnotic no? She plays with such ease that it is as if the music is emanating from itself, I don't know if I have heard Fur Elise this way before.
you smokin that stuff again
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I discovered her about 5 years ago then watched her being interviewed. I loved her sense of humour in the way that she described her fingers, almost as if each one had its own personality. It’s a privilege to watch her play this - I’ve felt tears forming at the beauty of what certain musicians can create. It just happened again.
I love how they first laughed and then realized that this 'simple piece' is no joke in her playing
BY FAR the BEST interpretation of
the classic
"Fur Elise" !!!
Never seen such sensitivity !
BRAVO, VALENTINA !!!
Now, when I think of "Fur Elise", I think of Valentina Lisitsa, not Beethoven !!
@@FakeItalianoII Shame on you.
@@FakeItalianoIIwe never heard Beethoven playing it
The audience laughed at the beginning because it was such a simple piece. But to be honest, no one plays this piece with such emotion and artistry as her!
The opening of this piece of music is easy to play, but it certainly gets harder towards the end and by no means should be classed as easy. There are abridged versions of this for less capable students, but it does take an accomplished pianist to give this a half decent performance. A great performance takes great pianist!
i think they thought she was gonna play some showy piece but she played a piece that every single person in that room knew haha, what a curve ball!
There goes Für Elise once and for all.
The audience laughs because it typically is the first piece any aspiring piano player learns. So everyone who knows someone with a piano, has heard some timid attempt at playing it. It has become, in some ways, lesson 1. Now, the fact that Valentina Lisitsa comes in for a 4th (!!) encore and starts playing the much listened tune, well, that´s kind of unexpected and funny. Nobody laughed at Beethoven, ok?
I just started learning, I've been playing for two years. And I didn't want to play it bc it was so overplayed and there are better songs.
4th, really? Valentina is such a wonderful person
every kid including me learn this because of some generic ringtone lol
doppiamente so you are saying because you can play this piece too that she's not good? By the way the audience laughed because the violinist struck the piano with his bow
You do seem to be right about that.
We don't have to stop liking pieces just because they're popular.
This music is pure love. Listen through your heart.Beethoven would have loved her so much ..
I agree. While playing, Valentina is like in love with the keyboard. So beautiful to see her playing... Ludwig van would surely have fallen in love with her !
😢😭😔
Yoe her how much Beethoven loved Elise
@Juliann de Belen III source for that?
To those that have said she doesn't play with much emotion on her harder pieces that she's played, this is proof she can play with an absolute metric ton of emotion. Those pieces just require much more focus on musicality, quickness, and make it hard to flood each note and passage with emotion, but she nonetheless does it.
agreed
Ahaha nice profile pic dude!
+David Bussell how does one tell if a solely instrumental piece is being played with emotion?
...
+j luke Hypernova listen to a computer play fur elise and then this. The computer doesn't have emotion and the human does. Trust me it's pretty obvious
People may have laughed, and you all may say this is an easy piece, but I have never heard it before so well played. It completely changed the way I think of it. It's so beautiful played like this! Amazing!
It is a difficult piece, because it is also the good sound who must be created ;)
Toozlepops they didn't laugh at her or the song. They laughed because the violinist hit the piano with his bow.
Everyone plays this like they are trying to win a race. This was absolutely magical!!!!
I just want to be that Elise who this was written for.
Uhm.. It wasn't a question, my friend
Are you sure? I always thot it was written for someone elise.
+Eric Wallter He obviously wrote it for Mona Lisa
I was just kidding
sorry youre just another loretta.
Love this pianist. Lady in Red is so beautiful.
No show off bullshit.
Serious artist.
She has character and vision. (different from shitty pianists you see everywhere)
+Ali A What do you mean no show off bullshit and shitty pianist. If your good at piano your good at piano. Its as simple as that.
TheNiceguy1156 shitty and show off means shitty character. it means you want to show yourself not music.
well show offs, play good music correct? im fine with either one to be honest.
TheNiceguy1156 no, a lot of show offs don't play well.
Ali A Yes but alot of show offs usually have skill to show for, thats why their show offs...
She is cuddling with the piano. So wonderful!
What I love about this is the subtleness with which she opens every phrase, the way she increases the intensity only to slow down again, and the way she is using silence in the very right amount. She also reminds me of Arrau in the way she is taking the time to acknowledge and bring out the sound of every single note. I have never heard a better interpretation of this piece. Superb.
Everyone here is saying "I can play that piece it's so easy why is she playing such an easy piece!"I best 90 percent of you slay the piece trying to play it as fast as you can.
How many top pianists nowadays back down from the virtuosic extravaganzas of classical music and play an all time easy classic with such beauty? Fur Elise has turned from overrated to shamefully underrated.
When was it overrated?😉
It is not easy to play! Easy notes, but hard to play with such a passion. But I can play "Fur Elise" now. See on my channel and please subscribe to it)!
@@cpgautam172 have you been living under a rock or smth
@@ommayayehet7850 i dont think so, can u elaborate?
u r right, the 1st time i heard it was in a car's reverse music.
Simple, pure and beautiful.
it feels like your floating on beautiful grassy field with flowers and trees and you can hear the creek gently going down the hill with birds chirping and it is on a sunny day and it is very breezy
Oh, this is so beautiful. Its simplicity makes it so candid - how amazing that a piece so universal can be so freshly interpreted. A testament to Valentina, one of my favourite pianists.
One of the best performances of this piece I have ever heard in my life!!
Me too
She caressed the piano as if it were another entity worth loving more than her own child.
Haha your lie in April reference
Uh, not really.
Music Kid gtfo anime weeb
It is.
Accidental Partridge
I've never heard it so soulfully
How a piece that people call "simple" can be elevated to a heavenly level, Valentina truly floats over the piano. Is there a word beyond perfection? This is it
Miss Lisista, I doubt you'll ever read this, but I want you to know that your talent really moves me. You have a great sense of softness, and I know it doesn't mean much coming from some random nobody, but I wanted to thank you for all of this. You're one of the greatest artist I've heard so far.
Victor Bordier calm down dude it's not even her channel
Body painting
+Noob Noob maybe its hers because she owns the account... she uploaded a video of herself talking so i imagine it is hers.
*LisiTSa
Wow she is amazing....she feels every note!
She is a true musician. She squeezed every drop of music out of that piece and didn't deride it for its simplicity. She brought the beauty of the music out in all of its elegance and modesty. Amazing. I have never heard this song played with such care.
3:04 there is no pianist, there is no piano, there are no sounds: it is all together forming something utterly amazing: a wonderful river of music
she is petting the piano
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Lucias the Goose of you watch her Mephisto performance of El Contrabandista you will she she fucked the piano like a pig
Before smashing it
I think it's incredibly sweet that she played this piece and that the audience got a gentle laugh - I don't think they were mocking her. I think it was just an entertaining surprise. I would probably laugh in surprise, too, as though there was some sort of delightful secret I was in on! And then she plays beautifully and there's not a single sound in the room because everybody appreciates Beethoven so well-played. Well done! :)
I love this!! So many kids in Korea play this emotionless. It's like she is showing a whole country the real beauty of this piece!!
It's easy to forget that this is a beautiful, masterfully written piece of music. Yes, it was the first piece (or first real piece, anyway) that I learned, just like many other people, but the reason for this is mostly because I was drawn to its beauty. Like Canon in D, or Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, its popularity doesn't diminish its beauty.
I believe that technically the peace is not hard to play and even a child can do it. Most important thing from my standpoint is the level of perfection you can bring to this heavenly music.
She plays it so well and she's so gentle to the piano it looks like she's not touching the piano
I was crying. It's one of the best performance of this music I ever heard. It has soul and deep feeling in every single sound she made. Beautiful!
Incredible Lisitsa , She can make you listen ! Absolute amazing! Never heard fur Elise so beautiful played !
This woman brings us gifts beyond measure. What a role model for all women!
I am immersed in pleasure while listening to her performance .
From Tokyo Japan
InitialIy: finally found something she plays I can play 2!😝😝😝
After: Why I'm I so naive 😑
Forgive my grammar
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Прекрасно чувствуеться индивидуальность в исполнении.
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Incredible hands seem to float over the keys. She is a Goddess of the Keyboard---best rendition of Fur Elise.
She is not playing with her hands but with soul. I love how she live through every music piece what she plays and always delivers more like music story than regular music.
Спасибо за стойкость, веру, оптимизм и красоту души! С праздником Рождества! С ув. Ан Ви
👏 👏👏 Clapping in beginning adds an extra note for a legendary Composer 💕
Everyone should know his name more 🙏
This song is a masterpiece, and she plays it like it is one, which is so amazing.
Valentina - The best interpretation I've ever heard, a caress to the ears! Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!
Simply Beautiful ... Beethoven would be proud
joe catania Beethoven would've died by the time she finished the third note.
0.51 Fingers caressing keys ever so gently but just enough express the perfect harmony...priceless!
best and smoothest version of this piece I ever have listened to
I can't believe you laughed at Beethoven!!!!!!!
+Britney Vigil That is because she played something way more difficult before in that concert and Für Elise is more like a beginner to intermediate piece.
+LeVolVik Still it's Beethoven!!!!!!!!!!!
Britney Vigil
Yes :D
+Britney Vigil people can be fucking stupid at times
+friedchicken1981 Thank you
Only having recently begun piano do I come to realize how much humanity resides in music. It's easy to play. It is an entirely different matter, however, to make it sound good.
Definitely not as easy as she makes it look.
He loved her.
He composed a song for her.
A quite lovely song, as it were.
No one knows for sure who she was.
Only that her name was Elise.
She must have been quite wonderful in her day.
Dignified, graceful, and elegant as it were.
Thank You Herr Beethoven.
It's beauty still evokes deep seated emotions in me
some two hundred-forty years later.
I think I understand how much he loved this woman.
I loved a woman like that a long time ago.
I missed my chance, and then shortly thereafter,
She died.
There really do exist some things that are timeless.
Love is one of them.
It is actually the greatest thing extant.
Nothing can compare.
Amazing.
Inspiring.
Still, to this day.
Close your eyes, and listen.
Love.
" And now abide faith, hope, love, these three,
but the { greatest } of these is love. "
Any questions ?
I didn't think so.
Valentina Lisitsa spielt das Stück in absoluter Vollendung. Sie und das Instrument werden zur Einheit. Ich habe zeitweise aufgehört zu atmen. Fantastisch.
it's about feelings. This music is the best
Perfect! She's the best pianist of the world!!
Love love love, the way she plays the piano, the way she caress the keys, ohhh my is beautiful!
Великолепное исполнение, хорошая акустика зала - бальзам для души!
Section A and it's repeats are easy to play and so many beginners only play that part. The 32nd notes to play at correct tempo would defeat so many intermediate players, there is certainly no reason for an audience to laugh. There are other technically tricky parts, but the really tricky things are less obvious, subtle and delicate dynamics and subtle changes in tempo that even students on high grades usually don't achieve very well. This version is about as good as it gets and it is certainly not hurried as she has been accused of on some other pieces.
I'm getting a piano this or next week and gonna see if I can learn this (never played piano in my life). Don't want to be arrogant but I feel I gonna learn this in so little time with no effort lol
BTW, gonna edit this comment after a few weeks when I realize its actually difficult and I can't play it well lol
@@FockeWulfFW200 well?
dude she plays way more technically difficult songs, i’m assuming this was taken from a whole concert of her playing multiple songs. she probably played something as hard as la campanella before this, so the audience hearing fur elise; one of the more simple but recognizable song is funny to them. Therefore, they laughed.
My favourite piece of music!
Love how her fingers appear to caress the piano, and it just gives away music out of pure pleasure..love it.
I've always loved this Beethoven composition. No matter WHO plays it, it (to me) is always one of my favorites......I even have it playing on my doorbell............
Beautifully performed! And without a doubt one of the most beautiful pieces ever to grace the pianoforte
The audience laughed because she played Fur Elise which is very common for the beginners. But when she continued playing that song we can see that she played it in a different way that makes the audience applaud her very much.
In all her music this young lady is an absolute pleasure to listen to and a sheer joy to watch. So fluid, so sensitive, so totally ‘simpatico’ Transporting.
Fur Elise has been one of my favorites since I was a child. But I’ve never heard it played so softly before. Ms. Lisitsa is the greatest pianist I have ever heard.
What a beautiful rendition; refreshing to hear such a well-known piece performed with such delicacy.
When i was at primary school Für Elise was our school bell. We love Beethoven, from Turkey
For me this is the BEST so far of all I have listened to. So seamlessly professionally rendered with an air of full comprehension of the mood and soul of the song.
Best interpretation I’ve ever heard, her talent is amazing, so natural. This is how music should be played!
this is absolutely magnificent! i felt comfort when i listened this instrumental
May I just say, it is not a "song", it is a piece!
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE CAN'T MAKE THE FUCKING DISTINCTION!!!!
I am so grateful to hear her play this!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Love to you Valentina!!
Omg! She plays with so much emotion. The dynamics 👌. That's what makes a pro in piano. She inspires me to practice harder!
I had a toy as a child that if you twisted the blue grip it would play this piece and the other end was a rattle. For the longest time I wondered what the music was. It calmed me down. And seeing it now I miss the toy, however childish it may seem.
A tspn of suga helps the meds go down That's funny, I had a similar toy when I was little that played brahms lullaby that'd I'd love to have again.
For Einstein, E=MC2 was child's play. Valentina simply proved there is great, profound beauty to be found in the simplest things in life...
+JohnBoyDeere E=mc²
+domsau2 I don't know how to type the "squared" symbol, maybe you can help?:)
JohnBoyDeere
On French keyboard, the small ² is between TAB and ESCAPE.
+domsau2 E=mc² yippie! On an American keyboard it is alt/0178 Thanks and Valentina still rocks!
+JohnBoyDeere its E^2=c^2((MC)^2+p^2) I can't do the squared symbol on my phone but it's close enough
Im im so grateful to have heard this, the notes soothe my ears like cheese tastes on my tongue, i cannot believe how soft elegant and smooth this performance was! So beautiful!
Valentina Lisitsa is my absolute favorite pianist -- I am mesmerized by her hands and technique. On this piece (on of my favorites), I am so happy she plays it at this moderately slow, contemplative tempo. I've heard others play it at a much quicker tempo and it feels so rushed. Thank you for sharing your awe-inspiring gift, Valentina!
My mother's favourite classical piece.
Für Elise. Für meine Mutter.
+systempatcher "Für meine Mutter" means "For my mother", not "Fuck my mother"... You should acknowledge this first before even commenting here...
MapDrawer It was a joke lol. It just sounded like it when I tried pronouncing it in my head.
Ah okay. Didn't know that
+systempatcher pervert
daenja So many stuck up pricks that listen to classical music these days. Google the definition of joke for me.
Incomparable. Spasibo Valentina.
She's one of my favorite pianists ever, she has amazing expressions
no rendition has ever been as perfect. Unique with no trace of artifice or condescension.
I so remember my grand mother and my aunt Hélène playing Beethoven's "Für Elise" just for me when I was a child and Valentina's play made me nostalgic and the way she plays and feels the notes are so impressive
You are very lucky to have lived in such house
Audience in the beginning : laughs
Audience after the piece : applauds
:D
Absolutely beautiful! Valentina, seemingly underrated yet totally amazing. Her playing is second to none, lovely!
Absolutely beautiful I could listen to her all night and every day and the way she touches the keys is like magic
Nenhuma outra toca como Valentina...
Beautiful . ...
My first time hearing Lisitsa play Fur Elise. She is a true master of this classic, she does it perfectly, WOW.
It can't be played better than that !
One of the reasons the audience laughed in the beginning is probably because, as @Lydia G. and @윤한일 said, the song brought them back to their childhood or people didn't expect a relatively simple piece. But, there is another reason people are missing. I don't know how to explain this, but the very first melody of this music is dubbed a SUPER CHILDISH lyric in South Korea, which goes:
You are a gorilla
And i'm handsome while you're ugly.
Since this song is in the beginner program of most of the piano lessons (and nearly everyone tries piano in their childhood in South Korea), almost all of the young kids know this melody and that probably is the reason that the song was used to tease other kids.
i was wondering what everyone was laughing at.....thanks for the explanation
good explanation. i'm korean, and you are exact.
comixmaniac you people must not have watched the video. They only laughed because the violinist hit the piano with his bow.
Noob Noob
I heard that 😂
Lived in korea, never heard of that stupid lyric
this is soo beautiful 😪loved it ❤❤
every now and then, we meet the perfection, a person that shows us the best of mankind
慈愛に満ちた、とても優しい響きで心が安らぎます。Valentinaさんの心情が伝わって来ます。💐