What piano playing, fascinating! Mosfilm Studios also add their own sound, piano is just right, nothing sticks out, or is missing, room sounds great. Excellent, impressive job, thank you for adding to this much needed dimension of life.
maybe she was bored but the fast passages look too mechanical to me, like you're bored and someone puts you to recite a poem that you know by heart and you do it without intonation or pause
I am a great admirer of Valentina Lisitsa, who I was lucky enough to hear live in Avellino, Italy, a few years ago. Even though there were only a few of us at the Cimarosa Conservatory, Valentina played divinely, like the great professional she is. In the recent, difficult years, I had the opportunity to appreciate her not only as a great pianist, but also as a woman, on the occasion of the absurd boycott that the Western world decreed against Russia, including its great musical culture, guilty of having defended its borders and its own identity from intrusiveness of the Americans and their colonies. I remember with emotion the concert in Milan, where she reminded the world, in full boycott, of the great Russian piano school and Rachmaninov's Genius. Thank you, Valentina. I really hope to have another opportunity to listen to you live, perhaps in a large theatre, when this incivility will be over and we will be able again to appreciate culture regardless any flags or sense of belonging.
Our world is full of evil and suffering because we rebelled against God, our creator, in our past. He sent his only son Jesus to save us from hell by suffering and dying on the cross to pay for our sins. Read the Bible and the Gospel. God loves us immensely. He'll raise us from death. He's created a new and better world for us. Tell Jesus all your problems. He's helped me a lot. He can help you, too.
"I am forty years old, an ugly age: a man is still young enough to have desires, but already too old to fulfill them. At this age, the restlessness within everyone fades, so they become strong through habit and the acquired security in the powerlessness that comes with age. And only now am I doing what should have been done long ago, in the abundant blooming of the body, when all the countless paths are good, and all mistakes are as useful as truths. It's a pity I am not ten years older, so old age would protect me from rebellion, or ten years younger so I wouldn't care. Because thirty years is youth, I think now, as I have irrevocably distanced myself from it, youth that fears nothing, not even itself." --- "Death and the Dervish" by Meša Selimović:
