Amazing technical virtuosity allows this supremely talented pianist to explore the emotional nuances of this piece. There is power and great tenderness as her hands move across the keys. I'm guessing she simply set-up three digital cameras and played with no one else present, then edited the images to create this offering. My appreciation for Haydn keeps growing. I have his Erdody string quartets on the CD player in my car and never tire of listening to them.
Mrs Lisitsa plays with such joy!!! It is not always you see classical musicians smiling while playing. So important is joy!!! Valentina is my great idol!! And Haydn is very good!!! Yet quite unknown for his piano music.
I am 71 years old, and can remember when Haydn's piano sonatas were totally neglected, over-shadowed by Mozart and Beethoven. Nowadays, his sonatas get their well deserved performances.
o there ar e so so many composers which were forgotten and noone plays their works . Zhat should be done. Haydn indeed is a very well known composer. search for "unsung masterworks" or go channel " KuhlauDilfeng2 " There you will find a lot of unknown composers and their wonderful works never heard before. Why always Beethoven, Mozart , Haydn......?
Harry, I agree The old master Haydn is coming into a better light. However, to say he is getting his "deserved". I have to question that. Although his light happy music is valuable to me, I still think the richness and depth of musical material and its development are not equal to Mozart's. To compare him to Beethoven is not fair, like apples and oranges. No one compares to Beethoven!
@@mikekarren5010 An interesting viewpoint, though it appears to be based on a rather better understanding of the music of Mozart and Beethoven than that of Haydn whom I barely recognise from your comment above.
You keep surprising - with taking us to different parts of the repertoire and giving us new insights into those areas. Your blend of both traditionally classical elements (evenness, lightness in touch, structure) with some of the enhancements that a concert grand piano can add to the score is wonderful to hear. It's nice to hear someone trying to play a harpsichord on a piano, or a fortepiano on a concert grand, but instead use creativity in deciding when the early style of playing and the enhanced piano range could provide more to the experience of hearing your performance. Thank you.
Merveilleuse Valentina, une fois de plus vous apportez à la musique le talent qui ne peut que se conjuguer au féminin, toute la subtilité du doigté, de la sensibilité qui transfigure la musique en bonheur parfait. Merci Valentina.
Haydn era preoccupato di avere sempre accanto a sé l'ispirazione quando componeva ,questa sonata è un esempio da studiare per i compositori apprendisti. Brava Valentina!!!!!!!!
The unexpected change from G major to E major at 3:05 is the same as Beethoven used (D to B major) in his Hammerklavier sonata 1st movement. Both times magic.
baldrbraa Well spotted. Beethoven studied a number of Haydn’s compositional techniques very carefully - key and tonal relationships, motivic development, building large-scale movements from small fragmentary motifs, and so forth - there is rather more of Haydn in Beethoven than sometimes he cared to admit. Additionally of course; the dip into E major in the E flat major 1st movement is a foreshadowing of the unprecedented (for 1794) switch to the E major of the 2nd movement.
I love the joyful expression of your playing here, really captures Haydn’s humorous character. I am learning this piece and many parts of this interpretation are very inspiring. Thank you! And boy am I so in awe of the crisp, bright and light articulation on those scaler passages in the first and third movements.
An interesting comment, but I hear almost nothing ‘humorous’ (= intended to make us laugh) in this profound work; there are several parts I might label playfully ingenious, but that’s it. Your right, this is an impressive, very clean performance and technically amazing; my only quibble would be about not observing da capo markings.
@@elaineblackhurst1509 Humor is Haydn's specialty, I wouldn't doubt it if his intentions were derived of that. The music may not make you laugh literally, but noticing the many moments in the 3rd, where sudden great shifts in dynamic and short versus long gestures are quite theatrical, even the rhythmic syncopations, could be interpreted as 'humor', and 'playful' as you call it.
@@Fanchen I get your point completely. My concern though is that the humour card is massively over-played in Haydn, and often used as a substitute for proper analysis; what you describe in the example you gave is the sort of thing that happens in Beethoven all the time, but the difference is that it is never referred to as humorous. PS. Humour is *not* Haydn’s speciality and to suggest so, is to draw a simplistic caricature that demeans a truly great composer.
I have the natural gift of playing by ear since the age of three, I wish sometimes I had been trained from an early age. What a wonderful gift that she has. I love to here music like this. I may have over three hundred sixty songs memorized, but I'll never be able to touch her. She is wonderful to listen to. So wonderful
I just found an old Peters edition of these wonderful sonatas, and I wonder why Haydn sonatas aren't played more... And these interpretations are delightful!
he deserves a bigger place in the music world... just his over 100 symphonies alone... and the sonata allegro form alone owe him a BIG amount of debt... BUT the place where I LOVE him the MOST... is his LARGE scale Masses... especially The Lord Nelson...
@@Highinsight7 The Missa in angustiis often known as the Nelson Mass* (or Nelsonmesse in German) is arguably Haydn’s greatest single work, and was thus nominated by one of the greatest Haydn scholars of all time, HC Robbins Landon in his enormous five volume biography of the composer. * Note the correct nickname of the mass - not sure where you’ve got the ‘Lord’ from.
I'm so glad for this performance of Haydn! It made my day. :) I still fully remember your recital in Prague; it was one of my most beautiful and exciting experiences with classical music. It was literally unbelievable to see you play live. I hope you'll visit Czech someday again!
amazing valentina , i m so happy to have met this great pianist , one of the most greatest artist in the world , thanks for everythink valentina , e éternelle ,
The interpretation is wonderful. Valentina knows how to play Haydn in a nicely quick tempo. Many pianists play Haydn too slowly, so that Haydn sounds then too tiredly and dusty. (Die Interpretation ist großartig. Valentina versteht es, Haydn in einem schön schnellen Tempo zu spielen. Viele Pianisten spielen Haydn viel zu langsam, so dass Haydn dann zu müde und verstaubt klingt.)
Haydn wrote this E flat sonata sonata (Hob. XVI:52) whilst in London in 1794; Beethoven played through his three sonatas Opus 2 for Haydn in Vienna on his return from England in 1795, and then published them in 1796.
Gah Thank you Valentina for respond! And you're welcome. Yes it is SO difficult. As pianist myself I'm still trying to master those nuances. But like you said, once mastered, it's so fun which is why you're probably smiling. :)
Brilliant. I hope Mme Lisitsa and other famous pianostars will want to use their popularity to make people discover also other unconventional repertoires (e.g. Rococo period) and even those composers (e.g. Hummel) now almost forgotten.
I started playing piano since 1 and a half years, but my name is now in the top list amongst the BEST CHILD PIANIST IN THE WORLD, I would like to share my happiness with you as you are my inspiration, your reply or response to my comment will make my days ...thanks Aunty........
+ValentinaLisitsa ........ Oh my god ... I'm very very very very very very very very very hapyyyyyy with your response Aunty.....my whole family now shouted with happiness with your reply.....hope to see you soon ,, please let me know if I can see you and play along with you once in my childhood.....thanks Aunty regards from my daddy mummy and my elder sister amirthavarshini........
Breathtaking. Brava Valentina. I'm sure Mr. Hayden would be thrilled with this performance. Thanks again. Saw you in Munich for the Rachs a few years back. Fantastic experience in the Gasteit there. I'll make it to another concert sometime soon, God willing. Love for you to come to Ireland. someday.
Dr Haydn wrote this sonata for a very fine female pianist whilst in England (1794), her name was Therese Janson-Bartolozzi; it is thus somewhat appropriate to hear such a fine performance by a modern day pianist of Valentina’s prowess.
Such a happy piece of music. I heared you play this yesterday in the Bösendorfer Saal in Vienna. Thank you for yesterday's wonderful evening! It was such an amazing experience listening to you playing the piano in a rather intimate atmosphere. Hope you will do something like that again soon :)). Greetings from Vienna!
your piano playing is sensitive and powerful at once! your notes are very slender and slightly hear perfect silence between two notes when you play so you leave room to breathe! Congratulations Dear Valentina! JC
