Beethoven Sonata Op 106 "Hammerklavier" Part 5 (mov 4) Valentina Lisitsa

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14 жыл бұрын

Valentina Lisitsa. Recording in Hannover Germany Dec 2009

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@brandonscherrer 10 жыл бұрын

this is ridiculous, how is this even possible? This is the work of 100 lifetimes, times infinity.

@marcossidoruk8033 4 жыл бұрын

@Egg MCMUFFIN this Is harder i think

@CobraBoss23 4 жыл бұрын

Egg MCMUFFIN this is harder

@coolmuso6108 10 жыл бұрын

She has flawless technique and musicality. Every voice in the fugue is heard. Love listening to this, EXCELLENT !

@Kitsua 10 жыл бұрын

This is my vote for the single most challenging piece in the entire piano repertoire. To play it with such aplomb is sensational.

@justin6303 10 жыл бұрын

My left hand is so slow. It's stunning how fast hand moves......

@maestroanth 10 жыл бұрын

Idk, I think the Bach/Busoni stuff is a "little" harder. There really is not such a thing as the "hardest piano piece", there's just a bunch of pieces that all qualify for the top tier of difficulty level.

@alexcameron1703 9 жыл бұрын

One to also consider is Liszt's El Contrabadista. She does an amazing job with it, too.

@Kitsua 9 жыл бұрын

***** I've played bits and pieces from the sonata itself, but I can't even begin to play that fugue. I can give my estimation as to its difficulty because I am a classical pianist and have studied, learned and loved classical music my entire life. As far as anyone has an ability to offer their opinion on what is difficult, complex or demanding, I believe mine holds up as well as anyone else's. and Anthony Walter, I agree that there's really no such thing as the "most difficult piece", but if I were asked, this would be the piece I would suggest as a good front-runner. It's not just about the virtuosity, as it might be with a piece by, say, Liszt or Rachmaninov. It's also the contrapuntal complexity, the sheer stamina involved in playing such a gargantuan sonata and the emotional and artistic depth and subtlety involved in interpreting a late Beethoven work. If any piece can be deemed to be in the upper echelons of the pianistic repertoire, this must surely be in the running.

@brandonscherrer 9 жыл бұрын

***** How does the you playing the appasionata have anything to do with this?

@davidfranklin272 9 жыл бұрын

Absolutely phenomenal playing. Such clarity. Yes, this must be one of the most difficult pieces, yet she flies through it effortlessly. Wonderful technique. For me, Pollini is the better performance because he brings out more of the separation and has some emotion, but this playing by Valentina Lisitsa is a tremendous accomplishment. World class playing, and I suspect I'll be watching this again and again.

@Wegnerrobert2 7 жыл бұрын

She plays the fugue so well! It always immediately catches my attention while everything feels a little more mushy in other interpretations.

@CziffraTheThird 8 жыл бұрын

Although the ultimate meaning in music is not the tempo, how fast a performer can get through a certain work or passage to prove anything to anyone, but I will say this: there truly is something that is very rare that just comes alive when a performer, a very gifted musician not only fully meets the requirements musically(which I do believe is most important), but also to top everything off with a cherry, the technical/tempo requirements of monumental pieces such as this absolutely prime example of Valentina. Above and beyond. My perspective on this piece just changed and really this really shows us how much Beethoven was truly a high romantic, not a stately "classical" era composer.

@Methylglyoxal 6 жыл бұрын

Whoever thinks Beethoven is a _stately classical era composer_ is dumb

@aliaghapour45 5 жыл бұрын

5:09 - 5:24 nobody plays this part like her. Just the best

@greatday2641 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing. How can she remember let alone play that fugue!. This is huge and fabulous

@peteklat 10 жыл бұрын

This has given me one of the best hours of my life. Thank you Valentina. Thank you Beethoven. Thank you KZfaq.

@rykbrink 10 жыл бұрын

Marvellous!

@ggoocchhaann 5 жыл бұрын

Merry agrees on your impressions 💐

@MitchBoucherComposer 11 жыл бұрын

She MEMORIZED the whole Fugue? Very impressive! Amazing work!

@fritzzz1372 Жыл бұрын

sonata, not fugue

@fredneecher1746 Жыл бұрын

@@fritzzz1372 Maybe Mitch meant the fugue.

@MitchBoucherComposer Жыл бұрын

@@fritzzz1372 Oh yeah, you're right...I stand corrected.

@highpeaksphil 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve never seen anyone make it look like a grade 5 piece before. Effortlessly played ... bravo

@ClemAuri 7 жыл бұрын

4:56 greatest genius of music history

@FantasyPiano317 12 жыл бұрын

Imagine that Franz Liszt was able to play this piece with 11 years! :D

@integral_icecream 4 жыл бұрын

he used to sit and play the piano every day

@sebastianciarfella3061 3 жыл бұрын

@@integral_icecream i play the piano since I was 6 (I'm 13), I have a really big hand, and I'm nowhere close to play this, I'm doing my first Beethoven sonata from the 32 sonata set

@MrMachoman47 3 жыл бұрын

If I’m not mistaken he was the first person to perform this piece live

@physicsisawesome696 3 жыл бұрын

He was a child prodigy.

@shadowblue746 9 жыл бұрын

The most incredible piece of music ever written

@community-fusionnetwork4131 3 жыл бұрын

The very last measures of this piece must be the most difficult in Piano history

@TheDefton87 8 жыл бұрын

Man... I'll need hundreds of hours to memorize this tune... :D

@GeorgeZwierzchowskipianomusic 7 жыл бұрын

memorize shmemorize, it took me hours just to do the problem solving and fingering for passages I never was required to do before. every page has a brain and finger twister for each individual hand and the trills oi! but its excellent brain food and learning it will stave off Alzheimers for sure. My jazz improv went through the roof after this sonata and my analytical skills were taxed to their very limits. this piece is hard work no matter what your technique but it has the benefit of making every other piece seem that much simpler to learn.

@alphonsehein1122 7 жыл бұрын

zebb1111 Hehe true studying hard piece will make other pieces a lot easier to learn

@tarikeld11 6 жыл бұрын

zebb1111 Dude I needed 1 hour to get right fingering at from 0:21 - 0:27 .Until I realized I used the wrong hand and so now all my motivation is lost

@LAK_770 6 жыл бұрын

I keep returning to this recording, and at this point I have to say that this is the best performance of this movement that will ever be recorded or played by any person. This defines the term 'aplomb'. The combination of technical facility and style in interpretation is lightning in a bottle that I have not yet found elsewhere. I can't decide if I want to believe that this is a true live recording (i.e. no post-edits for missed notes).

@ClassicalMusic-ds9yt 2 жыл бұрын

Daniel Barenboim performance lesten please

@philiprostek 14 жыл бұрын

truly and literally an incomparable performance!!!

@Hailstormand 10 жыл бұрын

This is a dynamic recording of a momentous music.

@sstuddert 13 жыл бұрын

My favorite piano sonata - this is one of the best performances i've heard, maybe the best.

@varunthapar5828 5 жыл бұрын

Hers is a truly rare and exceptional talent. I am not just inspired but awestruck. Even the best of pianists find this piece impossible to comprehend, let alone play. Her rendition is above and beyond.

@ValentinaFan 14 жыл бұрын

I wasn't familiar with this sonata. I've looked around KZfaq at other versions (Richter's for example) & I appreciate the "hugeness" of this work. As for Valentina's approach and playing of this she has left me stunned.

@Tmrfe0962 9 ай бұрын

Phenomenal Absolutely stunning To think that this poured out of Heir Beethoven and has been astonishingly performed here. I know he is smiling. Bravo!!

@aliaghapour45 5 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing performance. I can say the best I've ever seen

@nibavares 9 жыл бұрын

Fantastica! Tecnica ed interpretazione sublime.

@henrijar 9 жыл бұрын

I love everything about this. I have always loved Hammerklavier Sonata, but this playing makes me love it even more. It's very easy to love this performance! :) Thanks!!

@Desireyso58 8 жыл бұрын

La Divina Valentina!!!

@rwelmer 11 жыл бұрын

Watched a few of her Beethoven performances now and have thoroughly enjoyed every one. She seems to have a great temperament for his music. Big thumbs up!

@marcossidoruk8033 5 жыл бұрын

This Is the greatest sonata of all time. So complex, so hard to play, but so beauty at the same time. This Is insane. I cant Belive my ears everytime i hear it.

@lvbbbasdsjcjm 12 жыл бұрын

Love your playing. I particularly enjoy your clarity at the tempo. Will look for your cds

@camiloandresmolina9943 Жыл бұрын

Esto es música de otra dimensión. Cuánta pasión, cuánta alma, complejidad técnica. Maravilloso Beethoven. Valentina de las mejores intérpretes que he escuchado.

@johnst66xx 13 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic. I love the way she articulates the structure of the piece. The sense of ebb and flow is wonderful and very hard to achieve in this piece -a difficult beast to tame.

@JeanPierreBarakat 14 жыл бұрын

Valentina, you make every challenge a piece of cake, with an additional extraordinary element: Passion! Bravo from your fan in Brazil!

@JesseBFournier 9 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Simply wonderful.

@TheSonja2804 9 жыл бұрын

Brava Valentina Lisitsia !

@MartinetPhilippe 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for this beautiful and powerful music. There is so much mental strength in your interpretation. Really impressive dynamic and deep expressive frasé. I like it a lot!! Bravo! Bravo!

@657449 9 ай бұрын

Way beyond outstanding!

@K8Lilly 10 жыл бұрын

GREAT!! love it!!!

@lancefletcher 12 жыл бұрын

Valentina's performance of this very difficult and strange Beethoven sonata is a wonder. As thrilling and emotionally moving as a great performance of a great composition can be. The technical excellence of the playing is, of course, amazing, but I say "of course" because I think it is time listeners began to acknowledge that Valentina is one of those musicians whose technical excellence is at the service of the music she plays. Both beautiful and instructive.

@WJE37FCSM 10 жыл бұрын

Dear Valentina, My 70th birthday is rapidly approaching and as birthday present to myself I thought that I might try to get the Beethoven Sonatas in my head. 50+ years ago I was smitten by the Beethoven Symphonies and since that time I've listen and learned lotsa classical music. That said, the Haydn Symphonies and the Beethoven Sonatas remain aloof. I've been plowing through the Brendel recordings but this video is my first go at the Hammerklavier. Thank you and best wishes on your project.

@lvbbbasdsjcjm 8 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant playing. The clarity of the fugal parts is clear to me. The precision and attacca is resounding. I place this rendition along side Polinni.

@eddiemperor 11 жыл бұрын

I'm here for that fugue :)

@bellinianodoc 13 жыл бұрын

Bravissima Valentina, la tua fuga è davvero vertiginosa. Ed è incredibile come si possa tenere interamente a memoria un brano simile. Mi hai fatto deliziare. Ciao!

@arturozeballos1 7 жыл бұрын

colosal versión querida Valentina....que grandiosa es esta sonata.

@paopaomanalansan 13 жыл бұрын

Virtuosity at its best, bravo!

@foodiste 12 жыл бұрын

spectacular!!!

@hatatske 13 жыл бұрын

beethoven's passion is intertwined with every single note in this fugue

@riversea07 14 жыл бұрын

remarkable, thanks for sharing

@mikejr41387 10 жыл бұрын

Valentina, I must admit I haven't always been a fan of yours. But i have to admit I've never heard the Hammerklavier played better, and the fugue played so MUSICALLY that it actually sounds good, and not like Beethoven is having some sort of drunken fit. This is clarity at its best- and you're op. 10 no 3 is great too.

@IAmTheHound 12 жыл бұрын

Breathtaking technique and a superb performance of an exceptionally difficult movement of an exceptionally difficult sonata.

@garfreed 9 жыл бұрын

Superb!!

@LuizGuilhermePozzi 12 жыл бұрын

Amazing!!!!!

@garfreed 13 жыл бұрын

Stunning!

@peterbringenhoes 12 жыл бұрын

Great performance! Liked the interpretation of Wilhelm Kempff most, but this kind of energy and clarity is new to me, astounding.

@musicfanBRA 14 жыл бұрын

This is such a monumental piece, it's hard to know whom I admire more - the composer or the pianist.

@Hobott 11 жыл бұрын

Amazing!!...

@Ario-yt8ou 4 ай бұрын

Amazing.

@toshiajapan 13 жыл бұрын

This is bravississimo that nobody else has ever achieved. Videotaping of Hammerklavier!!!

@palcsibankschuler8471 14 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@HansKariniemi 10 жыл бұрын

Utterly effervescent. Addicting to behold, compelling to perceive, stokes an incredible imagination.

@5681asg 14 жыл бұрын

Limpia de técnica, clara de concepto, y sublime de expresión.Profunda, magnífica y madura versión de una de las mejores representantes de las generaciones jóvenes.

@ledzed 13 жыл бұрын

Its like she has 2 right hands. Seriously, look (and listen) to what that left hand is doing! Such clarity, speed, and dynamics control. And such a musical genius, how she brings out all the voices of the score. Unique talent, as this world rarely sees.

@mgpoliveira 12 жыл бұрын

The greatest fugue ever after Bach, it is almost impossible not to relate this piece to him. I can say that it is Bach in Beethoven and both in the pianist.

@GlitchforSora 13 жыл бұрын

This is just awesome and words can't describe it :DDDD

@kingjepoy 14 жыл бұрын

AMAZING! Clap, clap, clap!

@jonnypyy9360 5 жыл бұрын

magnificent

@manhattanvor 13 жыл бұрын

Tempo in this movement is excellent for the hall and the instrument. The use of the pedal demands a slowing from 144, which would have been on a more diminutive instrument without the "klang" that this one has. This seems to be between 132 and 138 and sounds just right. Maybe a little lack of clarity here and there, but fantastic in its excitement and facility.

@iguarni 10 жыл бұрын

BRAVISSIMA!

@RenatoSabbatini 6 жыл бұрын

Clearcut, virtuoso, astounding performance of one of the most difficult pieces of the classic piano repertoire. Its is just amazing how a human brain is able to know by heart the Hammerklavier. Beethoven composed such complex and hard to play pieces such as these (and the Grosse Fugue), probably because he was already deaf.

@eutenhodoisfilhos 13 жыл бұрын

adoro a técnica e a forma como toca excelente, magnifico, divinal, soberbo.

@Tiresies1770 13 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@jazzbluesartists 11 жыл бұрын

This is deeply, deeply musical! This performance is compelling and transfixing. Agree totally with Shiro's comment above. This is after all Beethoven!

@GBN_01 13 жыл бұрын

If you'll excuse me, I have to go and dry the tears off from my face after seeing this....

@iguarni 11 жыл бұрын

WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@doGreatartistsgrowontrees 12 жыл бұрын

At last, a "Hammerklavier" fugue that's everything LvB would have wanted out of the written notes. All fast and furious and kaleidoscopic. A fugue on acid. Bravissima, Valentina!

@tractotus 11 жыл бұрын

Her performance is wonderful!! This is a driving , percussive brilliant Fugual masterpiece!!!!!!..and the name of the piece is HAMMERKLAVIER

@fyx1926 9 жыл бұрын

This young woman is totally admirable.She has a fantastic brain and fingers to match,She reflects Beethoven'ls ideas exactly./what PITY KZfaq could not record the entire piece in one recording,Thabk you Valentina..JJ

@aarif0711 13 жыл бұрын

thank you from karachi... wonderful!

@zackyboopanda 13 жыл бұрын

I hope you are doing a DVD/Blu-ray/CD for this Sonata (and hopefully eventually all of Beethoven's Sonata and other pieces)! I would definitely buy them! Also thank you for putting up all these videos of your magnificent playing for us to enjoy!

@Configurandomivida 2 жыл бұрын

Eso es complejamente hermoso

@sadmeli 12 жыл бұрын

c'est magnifique

@flavioandradearaujo2554 6 жыл бұрын

SENSACIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@andrewwall2730 8 ай бұрын

Though I've listened to this a dozen times, it still makes my brain hurt, and I'm a trained classical musician. Wonder how mere mortals would react to this monstrous, complex piece of music.

@dingy8764 2 жыл бұрын

jesus this makes la campanella sound like twinkle twinkle little star

@santiagom3463 3 жыл бұрын

Impresionante interpretación de una música que excede las dimensiones humanas.

@GeorgeBost-euzicasa 10 жыл бұрын

Indeed, Valentina poses a unique phraseology and intonation, very intuitive...Bethooven would be impressed...Chopin too, and for sure Liszt!

@neto6517 5 жыл бұрын

La mejor pianista de todas

@davidbudo5551 3 жыл бұрын

Verdad!

@Mjfanlittlemonster 12 жыл бұрын

I just wanna say that you are one of my idols! i wanna play the piano exactly like you! you are amazing and the way you play is just jaw dropping! i'm 14 and i've been playing the piano since i was 5 :) greeting from Egypt

@AlexChangYuan 8 жыл бұрын

From chaos comes order. PLEASE put these 5 parts together!!!

@mauriciodealencar8496 5 жыл бұрын

Lisitsa love

@TatTwamAsi 12 жыл бұрын

I forget the start of the 4th movement ... The remaining polyphonic disharmonic contents is wonderful! This is - and has to be revolting and lovely naughty like a school boy! I enjoyed it.

@JoEbY-X 12 жыл бұрын

I love the orchestral half cadence at 5:18 suddenly interrupting the very pianistic hopping trills. Then another suprise cadence at 8:05. Most performances I've heard don't put a ritardando with the latter cadence.

@hellogee3600 7 жыл бұрын

Speechless Not human

@manuelspcool 13 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO BACH!!!!!!!!! CE' MAGNIFIQUE = )

@fluxvital 7 жыл бұрын

only a god could compose that 5:15

@Beethoven1111 7 жыл бұрын

Ultimate trill spam

@ludix711 5 жыл бұрын

Those trills can be very difficult..

@HarveyTruffaut 14 жыл бұрын

Bravo

@camomile988 12 жыл бұрын

There is no use in comparing any one or anything with Valentina. All I see here is music that Beethoven wanted to depict. The existense of the instrument of the performer is no longer a deal. I do not know what to say. I like Beethoven because he described the wonder of human beings throughout making music. Thank you Valentina for showing us the wonder of human beings and music. Your are making really good music. And I apologize for spelling your name wrongly in previous comments.