Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 

Take a few online lessons, chill, and there's nothing to easy stuff like this.

Yea man, La Campanella was also a classic

Mark Fowler it’s a joke bruf

Mark Fowler op was telling a joke.

Mark Fowler it was a joke dude calm down

Ahahahaah fuck no

Hahahah , you made my day man !

Ha ha, great...

i would not want to be a lesbian with her

Ha ha ha ha. That's funny...

its a thing to say whoever invented the piano did such a good job that it can keep up with her fingers.. thanks, V!~

Same here ❤❤❤❤Love

Mostly F Sharp and C Sharp will be pressed

And she memorized every single note.

Rousseau’s was also great.

Yeah like that part at 1:49 to 1:57 sounds so different than the others I’ve heard, it’s almost sounds like she hits different keys than others, also the part from 5:14 to 5:18

Лучший - Гилельс!

Franz Liszt Oh dear.

@@keyyf7039 LOL

@@keyyf7039 Hi!

xLxszt CH Hello there.

Too funny. :)

Step 1: be Franz Liszt

Step 2: Cry because you´re not Franz Liszt

felix villarreal step 3: Give up and play the flute

Step 4: Call a suicidal help-line, so that you don't do that.

Step 5: Eat everything in the house because you tried and hey that's good enough you deserve it as you sit there crying because you failed

Yes, that is typical of a pianist playing a piece, especially one of this difficulty

That is completely trivial and comes naturally with any difficult piece. But even then, if you know it by heart, there's still a _loooong_ phase of still having to focus on the technique, difficult parts etc. Most hobbyists get stuck in this phase.

It seemed like watching a cartoon! Completely amazing.

I think nothing can top this. Maybe you can play faster but making it sound as harmonic as this at the same time is nearly impossible

@@switterbeet this is on the very edge of the realm of possible, as a not genetically enhanced human. I would guess with no genetic engeneering no natural born human will ever surpass this level of skill.

You haven´t heard of Kazuhito Yamashita, for me the artist most "scary technique" i know

@@williamtaittinger4529 While she plays this piece extremely well, I think that you simply lack understanding

good one ha ha ha

lol

...and thinking: WOW! I didn't even know it was in me all the time!

Waterfalls

it's Tom and Jerry fighting :))

Loool cries in third world

almost had a heart attack! bahahahahha!

I feel you bruh

loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

cries in german, wait is that legal yet?

😊👍👏👏👏

I don't blame you. The best musical performances are a transcendent experience and overwhelm you with emotion. I'd love to see her perform in person.

ela é uma das minhas maiores inspirações, eu não consegui ir assisti-la pessoalmente, que grande privilégio! ❤❤❤

You are very fortunate ❤

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😂

She always leaves one alive to tell the tale

Then how did you know when there were no survivors?

watch hamelin play his cadenza of this piece it is incredible

Muscle memory.

It is very simple, she is made in the image of God. And it certainly has nothing to do with hell.

i thought everyone was made in the image of god. why cant i play it :(

Superoxide Dismutase God doesn't exist.

who the fuck is tom

@@gungunsaxena8340 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QpEfHVFilRc.html you know him too, iam sure about that ..

@@MKBUHDD ohh... lol 😁😁😁you cheeky bastard

One day you will discover that we can celebrate multiple people at the same time

@@justinharvey8039 It's a joke about a cartoon cat, for heaven's sake.

move*

Checkmate, atheists

hahahahahaha

Lmao

lol

Once you actually learn this piece, it is so fun to play. It's just getting there is really hard. Franz Liszt was kind of a showoff

@@GreyWind1988 I feel the same about playing 'Blame It On The Rain' drum.

@@GreyWind1988 because he did a lot of concerts, but Liszt has a lot of beautiful pieces that are not virtosistic too. I love both sides of Liszt but he wasn't only a showoff.

Not at the last few seconds. Her forearms were probably dying. I'm a pianist, I know how bad the forearms ache by the end of a song lol

@@GreyWind1988 you can’t really know if he was showing off or did because of his love for his music, you can actually feel the love and devotion he had towards music if you listen Hungarian rhapsody or la Campanella which wasn’t even his composition .

Most pianists with pieces like this have a ''look, I CAN play this'' vibe. Lisitsa has the ''I feel this piece'' vibe.

Literally most of the pianists do this pause as it's literally written on the sheet music but okay

bingo

Thanks - that sometimes we feel too alone when there are no affinity buddies in sight. I am not a musician, but anyway was impressed by what I was calling 'the harmony of execution'. Your «both sides of the brain» helped me in having a more precise idea. But, again, I'll stick to 'harmony' since for me it is more a question of feeling the harmony of sound than feeling emotions, though I know that it is all connected. Could be because I got polarized by the difference in interpretations, where the world-known ones, with great technical skills, miss completely the 'harmonic feeling'. Among them the very known LL, that to me seems just an extremely fast piano typist.

...at once.

@@orkunone571 LMAOOOOO

He has paid for them!

Franz Liszt is a fucking nightmare…

What if I bash my head against my keyboard of notes

I’m laughing way too hard at this. I think about this when I play rachminoff

@@BedardJ Do you mean Rachmaninow?

Ha, now look at Erlkonig.

"Let me intoduce my friend, carpal tunnelling"

@@ogthekingofbashan333 there are so many more pieces that are exceptionally more difficult than Erlkonig, Idk why youd mention that of all things.

And its all from her memory no notes infront of her!!!!

Memory is the easiest part

@@ngyuzhemoe7107 you know, you’re not wrong there. in my first month of playing piano i memorized chopin’s nocturne op. 9 no. 2 but i still have trouble with arpeggios and i been playing for about a year now

@@ngyuzhemoe7107 memorizing easier than reading notes?

@@dinaalsaigh165no, memorising is easier than learning the techniques. By the time you’ve practised enough to be able to do this you’ve already memorised it whether you meant to or not

LMAO

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😂

That’s hilarious

It‘s Lisztomania all over again

Zen Naut finally,I saw somebody mentioning this 😂😂😂

Zen Naut omg same

Zen Naut this comment made my day thats how I always feel listening to this or I feel bugs bunny

most ducking unexpected feeling ever))))))) but your 100% right

Bugs Bunny does it better.

***** Exaggerations get the point across.

I thought that was pretty funny.

That's using two hands for me just to reach caps lock and the num pad. ;u; R.I.P. Fingers

I spent a good 12 weeks on his Liebestraum no.3 and it never was performance ready. That's one of his more playable pieces, I can't imagine even getting halfway through this piece. I think he wrote piano music just to show off how great he was, only virtuoso's can play his work.

***** It's been forever, but I remember it being a 16th that one of them could stretch.

I smoke, then watch, at certain moments my heart bursts and eyes tearing up.

I'm sure that has to do with her political opinions. I don't like her politics, but I love her playing!

Or you are living inside the piano, trying to sleep...

I think 2.7 thousand is the number of c# at 5:28

theoldar what are her politics ?

probably all the concert pianists who cannot play as well as she can!

Cat concerto!

Tom and Jerry's best!

Bugs Bunny can do it too

That's how I first heard this song!

I like the tom and jerry version more

In one of her interviews she actually talked about her hand muscles 🤣

Wow that is crazy

Is that really true??

Chaitanya Chaudhary no lol her heart rate is no where near cardio levels aha. Jogging for 10 mins would burn way more.

@@cactish3191 I thought so too but many comments like these have got a lot of likes so I thought it may be true Thanks anyway

Lol

The beer mentioned in this anecdote was an ice cold bottle of Stella Artois, bit of trivia for you.

She has fun, but her fingers hate her

Yep. Even the hardest things could be easily done if you like it.

It took me half a year (same as Heroic Polonaise) to get it to proper tempo plus another 6 months to polish it to performance level. I prefer Adam Gyorgy’s more steady rendition or maybe CIffra’s.

Tim Countis also true but she’s sometimes so fast she doesn’t even play all the notes, e.g. at 8:10 when she literally smudges the right hand scales, but of course her rendition is overall more tempestuous than, say, Gyorgy.

Domen Sever could you upload it to RU-vid? I want to see it played by You. Also from what age did you start learning piano and how long do you practice each day?

Mateusz Loniewski check out my instagram profile for my recordings: @dominicvansever 😜

😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂............ 😭

Ahahahahahahah

If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly

@@0ros3t iF yOu CaN pLaY iT sLoWlY, yOu CaN pLaY iT qUiCkLy

they are not wrong keys if you play free jazz

i can play all notes in this piece, although not at the right order and speed

@@WonyoungJang-uq1sj HA i c what u did there

I've been training for nearly a decade and I've never even been able to sight right beyond the 5th page

김준엽 only took me 1.5 months to learn this

trust yourself and you can do 1 minute

The keys were terrified of what she would do once she got there, so they pressed themselves out of utter fear.

hehehehe

She hits some of these keys faster than the camera's framerate, especially at the start of the friska. She's insanely good.

@@vidblogger12 haha brilliant yes!

My 120 hrz refresh rate ain't cuttin' it.

LoL

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL its not funny

Like this one

@@part4963 lol y u trippin

Glen Caleb thank to you, I can skip to my favorite part😂👌

She is very good with not tensing up. Thats what allows her to play at such speeds. You can even see it in her biceps, they rapidly flex and relax instead of just staying flexed most of the time. She is optimizing her energy very well to be able to play at this speed. Shoulders relaxed, hands relaxed. You can get much faster explosive speed that way compared to being tense all the time.

It's the Russian Piano School technique. The first thing kids learn is how to relax the wrist and arm.

yeah i’m like in awe her touch with the piano at some points looks like she’s caressing it to play the notes

not only is her technique impeccable, her bicep and forearm muscles are also very strong!

Mistakes? Where?

What mistakes? Any off key sounding parts it's how it's written

hahahaha

Grammar not bad you was

@@idontlie6373 at least he was funny

@@idontlie6373 unlike you

@@sonicdark1375 i think i did a good job owo

*traumatic flashbacks*

Brilliant comment

The piano says: Valentina approaches; 'Oh shit..' Just a thought. Imagine writing this piece of music..... Imagine not being some future interpreter, but the instigator, the composer. Thats the level beyond.

You have a very strange name. I have a strange name too.

Tty

Same shit for the people in the 18th century

No, very few people in the 1800s could have heard this.

I think you meant to say, “people are so blessed to have lived in an era where they could listen to the world class pianist(Franz Liszt) right there”

At least a mouse wasn't hiding in the piano to ruin it again.

@@SleepyWeasle Cat Concerto!

true Edit murad more like *poo rad* haha owned

Lol

MuraD lolll

@@Alexuhhh hello

Lol good one

Very good thought of course, but if you could read music you would know that Liszt would be laughing at this, is off. Still is one of my favorites pieces on the piano and she did extremely well.

@@marcoss6212 yeah he wouldn’t be jelous cuz he has harder works but I think he would be impressed or atleast not disappointed

No way would he be jealous, but her performance was good.

I really disliked HR2.

I love this comment 😂

*screams in 8 octaves simultaneously*

IHSUWJA LMAO

I mean, C# minor sounds cool and it’s honestly not that uncomfortable.

moonlight sonata's another

weird flex

That's the video's frame rate dude. No matter how fast your network connection is

@@jeffreyliang2845 it was a joke

*cries in Australian*

I’ve heard that comment about 77382829290197476462718190times

Good is an understatement

I think you meant *”yeah, I know I’m GOD”*

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@mindi97 That's well done X')

Great Performance

You had us in the first half not gonna lie...

Me: *sees this comment EXACTLY at minute 3*.

HAHAHAHAHAHHAA

I am convinced by emblems and letters I saw on the piano that it is a Steinway, Had Steinways existed in Liszt's days he would have played them himself,.

Or some successful necromancy.

Or maybe you are looking at Liszt in this video

Looks like she enjoy the challenge :D

Yes the smiling is wonderful. Martha Argerich also does that and it seems almost enchanting to me. Just a wonderful experience.

If I can play this piece I will die smiling whatever killed me

compare that to 9:15

All Liszt pieces, your fingers better be ready to move across the keys flawlessly. Love playing his pieces.

Unbelievable

Tim...

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Me parece que la toca demasiado rápido a la canción, no es su culpa esta muy apasionada, es verdad que es una gran pianísta y esta obra la toco muy bien, pero para mi, también esta muy bella la interpretación de Adam Gyorgy.

😂

@TheClasher202 fucl

You've got the hearing ability of a... a... new born baby

@@AA-sn9lz thanks....?

Bugs bunny was much more harsh on interruptions.

Don't forget the composition itself. It's music like that this makes me think there is a god.

@@dougn2350 And his name is Franz Liszt!

you sure she's a human?

sort of thing we should send to space in the next Voyager

@@regarrzo No.

No

Yes

good one haha 😂

Ba-dum-tsss

I hate that I laughed at this haha

I dunno about you but what about his "rage over a lost penny" piece? Feels much more difficult to play tbh

@@shahmirkhan5373 i agree, it's just i feel this is the most "widely known" of his pieces, if you will

Zachary Valdes 😂 😂 😂

Ever heard “A World On Fire” by Bo Burnham?

Respectively, I think all Liszt pieces are significantly harder than Moonlight 3rd movement

interesting

But isn’t it sacrilegious?

I guess she really can play 15 notes a second...

She clearly practices 40 hours a day....

Violas have left the chat

It was like seeing the Goddess of music herself playing the piano: "Ah, yes. Just like that day..."

300 likes. Kudos.

yes

True talent and passion

SIMPPP

Bravo, bravo, bravo

Glory to God

@@ToyotaGuy1971 no, Glory to Google.

@@silverblack78 May God bless you, Sergio.

@@ToyotaGuy1971 thank you buddy, I appreciate!

@@ToyotaGuy1971 may google bless you, toyota guy

Lizst: PAGANINI! Excited Taco: Oh that's funny. PAGANINI!!!!

there shouldn't be millions of pianos that's being played liszt

So true...say no to piano violence, though my teachers tell me to play harder on the keys

@@Majestic469 i think the keys wouldn't mind, but the hammers in the piano on the other hand...

@@go1485 r/whoosh

You mean the sacrilegious boi?

What

ling ling? you mean Lang Lang?

eka puja agung of course he can say that. He practices 48 hours a day

@@homiej2548 oo

I really hope this is a joke

cherrybabe ...no shit

I think at least 2 days in an hour

@@manmeetsingh4719 Remember she practices 40 hours in a day, so she practices at least 80 hours in an hour

Maybe she's the piano counterpart of ling ling

So true

Who the heck could possibly criticize her?? It's beyond me.

This fucking scared me

Yes I noticed that too. Liszt probably meant this to sound a bit edgy, like maybe the wrong note was hit, and many people just assume that it's the pianist. It is not. It's the art of the piece and requires something special to achieve.

That is part of the Cadenza right?

because it does

No. Speed of light can travel so fast, our vision systems will not be able to recognize the delay.

Lica hes joking

Shadow playing!

@@alna9681 I have examined his comment above. And, under cultural subjects I found that your explanation has probability to be correct. Thank you for your effort.

Did this man just solve coronavirus?

Apparently girls would scream and cheer when he played, and some would even faint.

Sorry... but at 6:44 - 6:46 you can vaguely hear a *cough*

@@edgarhehehe6800 true

truered lucky yup. Both Franz Liszt (piano) and Niccoló Paganini (violin) were considered the world’s first “superstars” in the modern sense of the word, mainly because of the effect they’ve had on their audiences. There was a phenomenon called “Lisztomania” where women would attend Liszt’s live concerts and faint and squeal with delight and excitement, and apparently no one at the time really knew why.

so you gonna proove your attachement theory? Or will you just say its a fact without any proove. Or is the proove for the reader?

@@neutronenstern. The statement is really true. In fact her hands are playing with the speed of 0.99 c. Therefore, she has time to think, breathe and look where her fingers go.

always plays appropriately. one needs to Only listen

It's 3,1k now! When someone else sees this comment it'll probably stay the same. How could you give a dislike to a pianist like that?! Imagine how hard it must be to learn that all together!

@@PiotrBarcz Since I actually did, I can dislike her for a very aberrant style that is not true to Liszt. Yes, it is hard, and it isn't that hard to learn it wrong. I blame her teacher. She has the basic skills. The execution is insulting to Liszt in more than a few places. If you look at the G. Schirmer copy of the sheet music, there are only a few ad-lib notions and they are spaced out quite apart to make it clear. The way she plays it, little of the original would be left. This is the worst revisionism I've heard since I was a child watching the ignorant public licking up the musical schmaltzy/glitzy destruction of classical music by Liberace. All showman and no fidelity to the composers.

@@clasystems everyone has a different style of playing. Its only an opinion. I can agree with you but not that she messed up the song.

@@clasystems Hahahahaha, the irony! You're the same kind of people who hated Listz for making song interpretation/arrangement in the past. For these people Listz responded : "To an artist of such talents we must put the claims, being with right enforced on him by the world, at a higher level than that which until now has been reached by him - why is he only moving in properties of others? why does he not give creations of himself, more lasting than those fugitive reminiscences of a prevailing taste are and can be? [...] An artist of that greatness must not pay homage to the prevailing taste of a time, but stand above it!!"

Hard to answer. But it’s worth taking into account that Valentina started playing piano at the age of three. She practiced at least 14 hours a day. So it’s safe to say years and years of dedication and talent could help you achieve this level.