Oh wait, I did not even notice that there was no orchestra 😱

I "hear" it as well.

me three

me four

me six

best interpretation ever !!

jerrynova14 That was what Rachmaninoff was going for, which just goes to show the muscianship Lisitsa has while sticking to her own interpretation.

Makes me remember of Weissenberg's recording with Karajan and the Berliner Philarmoniker. That recording always gives me goosebumps.

well i guess rachmaninoff really liked bells

Funny you should say they sound like bells...

me too

ABSOLUTELY!!!

Yeah can't help at all!

Figment of your imagination

CRINGEEEEE

AGREED.

Toby Bradbury pinky is lit.

Where did she leave it?

It's titanium you jerk!!

played that concerto. right pinky is quite stressed too on all this melodies

Personally i think number 1

TimshawkTX KSA Seguro que ella es la Número Uno! Aunque hay otras excelentes Pianistas. Martha Argerich, Yuja Wang, H Grimaud, HJ LIM, Khatia Buniatishvili, Natalie Schwamova, La otra Valentina: Igoshina, Anna fedorova, Urska Babic, No en ese orden, sino lo escribo según las voy recordando. Si bien es cierto que omití otras por culpa de mi mala memoria. Las amo a TODAS!!!

Number Two after the second Chopin Concerto

TimshawkTX KSA I so agree.

TimshawkTX KSA I so not agree

Nice pearl

tsss hahaha

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Minute 8:32 the orchestra is going down from the bus

It did get her the recording contract. Of course you are such an ignorant sob who don’t understand

Ironic

@@flambr you mean Iconic?

Considering she made a whole video called “I don’t like Rachmaninoff” where she explained how she doesn’t like playing him

Also her instagram literally is queen_of_rachmaninoff

Thumbs up if you came here from Andre's 'Classical Pianist goes Metal!' 400K special video

me too xD

Try singing just one part at a time.

me too.

Frédéric Chopin because they can. Lol.

Frédéric Chopin Cause they aren’t DEAD! Suck it, Fred.

click what?

Click on the video, duh!

oh, i get it now

Lmao same

Complexity? Complicit means you're standing by knowing something bad is going on that you aren't doing anything about...

Also "you are my heroine" is kinda corny

@@epicbottleflips5032 you really cut deep don't you...

how do you know what effect heroine has?

@@philipnguyen9489 broooo

she could probably smash a whole building with her pinky

She calls all her fingers 'her little Schwarzeneggers" And likes an ice bucket, at the end, to dunk them in, in. 😷

XD

She can kill me with that muscular pinky

She usually practices 6 hours a day BEAR MINIMUM. Usually 10 to 12 hours a day. She starts around 9pm and ends around 3am. She puts her kids to be and her husband goes to bed. Then she goes into a sound controlled room they made to practice. (I saw it on a documentary of her on you tube - I forget where) Really cool stuff. !!!!

@@studentoftheword6115 perhaps 40 hours a day?

@studentoftheword I agree. You find your gift- we all have at least one-then spend time fine tuning it like a kid learning how to play baseball with his father 👍🏻

thanks, thats my wife.

Al Buzz nothing beats Beethoven's 9th

or mozart's lacrimosa

Valentina's galvanic performance of the 2nd with orchestra still unjustly misses the first page of results on KZfaq (where one sees TWO separate performances by Khatia sitting there) So much for a fair ordering system. Not many know that Valentina mortgaged her house in South Carolina....when she lived there, she now lives in Paris...in order to finance the Rachmaninoff Project of recording all 5 of the Rachmaninoff works for piano/orchestra with the London Phil. Such dedication to a composer is unknown today. I can only admire her bravery, her artistry...and, let's get a little shallow here, her beauty. :-)

Al Buzz Masterful!! No other way to describe it...Rachmaninoff lives to this day through her! No one can touch her with his masterpieces

Nothing beats Mahler's 2nd Symphony

Are U still alive? Respond within a month if yes, don't respond if no

It's unbelievably Fantastic!!! Bravo.

yeah this sounds exactly like the original recording except rachmaninoff used a little less pedal I believe but it's still amazing I love valentina

Composers often play their pieces too fast in my opinion

Leo T It's their piece, so is it really "too fast?" If that's the way the composer originally came up with, then it should be respected.

Z0LSTICE Well it really comes down to whether or not you think the artist has the definitive, final say on his or her work. I don't think so, but I take it you do? Regarding tempo, though, it's mostly just a personal feeling I have that I feel like I've noticed a lot.

Leo T I'd say there is room for creativity in different interpretations, but I think the music should still be respected. The thing is that we don't know how most classical music was intended to sound since its composers are dead, but since we have the actual recording of the composer playing his own work, there is less interpretation that I find acceptable. I know each person plays a piece differently, but I think we should try to mimic the playing of the composer since that is the way they originally thought about it in their mind.

Yeha Marin That is so true! You can fill in the orchestra in your head while you listen to her play solo. Plus there are so many fine nuances in the piano part that tend to be drowned out a bit when playing with orchestra. You can hear every detail of the piano part in this recording. It's amazing.

I totally agree with you. The orchestra is in my head, and plays along.

if you look sheet music of the piece you can find out why. its fun

Well, piano has strings in it :)

there are a lot of common notes and overtones with the piano too so it sort of tricks your brain!

The hear strings on F i think yea

It's even eerie at 1:10/1:11

It's a blouse darling

+TheLighteater12: Looks way comfy.

they probably filmed ehr practicing before a preformance because listining to just the solo piano could help a lot

+TheLighteater12 Maybe she just woke up, she seems like the kind of person who would play this before breakfast.

wake up in the morning, coffee, play Rachmaninov, eggs benedict...that's how to roll...then get out the nightgown into the shower all before 8am :))

Prochy you can’t play with such relaxed hands if you don’t have incredible finger strength because your fingers will “slip” and produce an uneven tone. For starters, relaxed wrists and then you need to practice a lot of technique. And most important thing should be to keep fingers curled and tone production even.

Prochy - If you’re hands and arms etc were completely relaxed you wouldn’t be able to even play the piano. Tension is needed to play the piano. But that is often avoided because tension has become a bit of a pejorative amongst pianists. Only unnecessary tension should be eliminated. And furthermore, reacting to a comment in this thread, finger strength does not exist. There are no muscles in the fingers. The only thing that allows you to raise fingers is the tendons in your arm. You don’t need to improve these tendons. In order to get good technique you only need to learn how to use the tendons in the most efficient way possible.

Prochy without muscles you would just be a pile of bones on the floor

Noah Johnson same! 😁👍

Definitely and the fact that you can hear only the piano makes it so much easier to reference when learning compared to using other recordings with the orchestra in the background

How's your learning going??

She usually practices 6 hours a day BEAR MINIMUM. Usually 10 to 12 hours a day. She starts around 9pm and ends around 3am. She puts her kids to be and her husband goes to bed. Then she goes into a sound controlled room they made to practice. (I saw it on a documentary of her on you tube - I forget where) Really cool stuff. !!!!

@@studentoftheword6115 the fact that she has a normal family and she’s able to maintain a family life while being this good at something, it shows the amount of dedication and passion she has for music

Valentina how long does it take someone of your giftedness to learn this concerto? Which is your favourite composer and concerto?! Thanks.

I could also hear the sonority of the strings section, at 1:03. I think that because this passage is very fast, there is no time for the notes to decay due to the dizzying speed with which they are played. This resonance maintained at maximum volume creates this impressive illusion of strings. It is no wonder that these tail pianos are called orchestral. The sound of Steinway is simply impressive. I think that this effect is due to the fact that the sound of the steinway is darker and with medium and treble more full. I think that this effect would hardly be achieved in a Bösendorfer due to its crystalline and sparkling tone, where the bass, mid and treble have definite and clear sonority.

Weslen Freitas Bösendorfer is the one known for dark tone, not Steinway

Weslen Freitas You have no idea what you're talking about lmao. Steinway has the "brigther" sound of the two...

He must've experimented all his life with the voices. Maybe when he was younger, he realised that playing with such speed and accuracy gave the listener an illusion of multiple voices (violin, orchestra) on the piano

+chunhaylee Agreed. Personally, my favorite part.

+chunhaylee Agreed. Personally, my favorite part.

+chunhaylee I feel like the bass is actually a bit too much? For this solo performance I felt like she was banging on that lowest F. But I guess if she was playing with the orchestra it would be what they needed to properly hear the piano part. Otherwise, beautifully done. :)

+chunhaylee If she feels this way , she plays this way. I 'm Russian and feel Rachmaninov the same way she does.

Love the loud bass!

I believe both.... I feel the same..

This part gives me chills, tears, longing and any kind of nostalgic feelings...she plays it so beautifully.

Frédéric Chopin you weren't that good with Orchester tho

Frédéric Chopin I am better in orchestra and at piano

Franz Liszt Maybe you have a better technique but Mister Frederic sounds way better than you! :)

thorwarths Oh dear ...Have you heard my totentanz with orchestra ? or my piano concerto noumber 1?

Franz Liszt Yeah but youll never reach his Barcarolle or his fourth Ballade, Im sorry mister

She usually practices 6 hours a day BEAR MINIMUM. Usually 10 to 12 hours a day. She starts around 9pm and ends around 3am. She puts her kids to be and her husband goes to bed. Then she goes into a sound controlled room they made to practice. (I saw it on a documentary of her on you tube - I forget where) Really cool stuff. !!!!

I feel like this is the first time I’ve ever seen pyjamas spelt correctly on the internet

Piano Weeb Pyjamas is UK spelling; pajamas is US spelling.

I couldn't agree more

+psirus89 That's why sometimes, I think if I had to chose, I'd rather be blind than deaf (but for daily lif blindness will most likely be more limiting).

0:24 is the best . respect

This part is just undescribable...it gives me something like nostalgia or desire...I love it! I play it much slower than she does, but her tempo of that passage fits very well with the sound of the piano. Edit: Well, 10 months later, the world has changed for me a lot, I cried, I was happy...what remained, is my admiration of this amazing section!

The dislikes are Lang Lang fans who didn't get the monkey on crack on the bench.

Its an amazing performance, but its definitely too fast for my liking. Just because you can do it fast, doesn't mean you should at times.

@@OrionPiano True. I wrote that comment 3 years ago.

@@789armstrong l discovered valentina when searching for Martha Argarich on you tubr

Pl I’m

its a really fun part to play!

5:30 i think It's better without orchestra

Я такие руки впервые вижу. Бесподобно!

Огромное спасибо вам за вашу поддержку России!

If I had to guess, it's by being in silk pajamas. That being said, if i had even 1/8th the skill, I'd wear boxers on stage if I could.

beause it doesn't take so much effort to play it now. but getting her skill up to the point where she could play it like this, well that is what's really effort-full

Maybe a tiny bit of practice

Decades of practice

practice 40 hours a day!

She usually practices 6 hours a day BEAR MINIMUM. Usually 10 to 12 hours a day. She starts around 9pm and ends around 3am. She puts her kids to be and her husband goes to bed. Then she goes into a sound controlled room they made to practice. (I saw it on a documentary of her on you tube - I forget where) Really cool stuff. !!!!