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.
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.
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. 🐾🐾🌞😷
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@@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.
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.
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.
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 …, 😅😅😅😅😅
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)
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 !
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!
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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'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.
Valentina Lisitsa spielt das Stück in absoluter Vollendung. Sie und das Instrument werden zur Einheit. Ich habe zeitweise aufgehört zu atmen. Fantastisch.
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! :)
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.
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.
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.
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............
Кто эти люди, что поставили дизы? По моему мнению это произведение - это совершенство человеческой эволюции. Сыграно чувственно, без ошибок, браво! Ох человечество, меня печалит лишь то, что кучка богатых угробит все достижения в угоду своего ещё большего обогащения
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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
I have been disregarding this "Fur Elise" of Beethoven. Because this work scarcely has characteristic charm. Having listened to the performance of Valentina Lisitsa,I must change my wrong thought. she begun with so delicate pianissimo tone. she was sufficiently comprehending the importance of dynamics. Her such behavior completely knocked me out. In other words, she has brought again an enlightenment into this Beethoven's "Fur Elise". I do declare that Valentina Lisitsa is an extremely attractive pianist. From Tokyo
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.
+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.
i started to play piano last year with this piece and this is always good to play it and better ear so good from the maravilous hands of an amazing piano player as valentina inspire me to play it more!! :) right to my favorite videos!! :)
