Valentina Lisitsa - Warsaw Concerto 

Life is hard, nonsensical, mysterious...and sometimes beautiful. If not for artists like Valentina we'd all be dead inside.

Concerto de Varsóvia foi lançada quando eu tinha quatro anos de idade. Muitas e muitas vezes, em minha infância, ouvi trechos dessa obra, como tema de dramatizações na era do rádio. Oitenta anos depois, ouvi essa obra

Very well said. A great but forgotten composer who has been honoured by these wonderful people. Stay safe. Love from Toulouse, France

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So it is👍🏻🎼

No body can play like Valentina

Totally agree, not only the best sounding, but many other pianists look like they are wrestling with the instrument. Here, she caresses her way through even the most energetic parts.

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Because no major pianist gives a shit

Actually, I think this is the greatest version that I can find. I will upload a version of my own. Just for fun... no where near this nice.

I agree, dear Bob ! Orchestr with the piano..! 🔥 I feeling the Fair, so nice muzic ! 👍💓👍

One of the best? Haven't you hear it? One of the best... Valentina it's the GODDESSS! The only one! The one and only!!!

Each note is a million tears shed by the Polish people as their country and lives were decimated by the Nazi and Russian Communist onslaughts. Warsaw burned with such ferocity that pilots in aircraft more than 100 miles away could see it burning. I have shed tears at this concerto many times over the years......it pulls at my very soul. It embodies the human heart's longing for peace and freedom. It is as relevant today as it was in 1941. Freedom is under attack, now as it was then.

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Me too Australia

One has to reluctantly accept this, but it is going beyond a boundary when music is interrupted before finishing to insert advertising. That is just beyond the pale, and utterly to be condemned. Evem looking at it from the self-interested point of view of advertisers or of RU-vid, it is very bad anyway. Listeners are going to be extremely irritated by having their listening interrupted so rudely, and won't be paying attention to the advertising anyway. More likely they are swearing under their breath or out loud, depending on the situation. This cannot work in the advertisers' favour: you are not likely to attract customers by pissing them off!

Tiene muchas similitudes al famoso concierto nº 2 de Rachmaninoff.

Totally agree with you, She's the best.

@@leo197777 thank you Leo

Are you aware that this single movement work was written as the soundtrack for the film Dangerous Moonlight. It was composed at short notice, only when Rachmaninoff refused to write the films score based on his second piano concerto.

The Director of the film wanted Rachmaninoff to compose the incidental music but, from the accounts I've heard, refused the commission apparently because he thought the work beneath him, so Richard Addinsell was drafted in instead. When the film was released there were no plans to release the music on record until so many people went to their local record shop asking for "that Warsaw Concerto from Dangerous Moonlight" that it was obviously going to be a hit!

I agree, I think she puts a very good emotional mark on all she plays

Mantovani's orchestra's version is beautiful - I forget who the pianist was - but this is a very close second in my opinion. Real feeling in the playing to match the intent of the composition.

@@oliabid-price4517 The pianists Rawicz and Landauer recorded it with Mantovani

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Muero de envidia! Saludos desde Durango!

It’s by Addinsell

@@hernanmunozratto5899 Exactly. Rachmaninoff was commissioned to write the score for the film 'Dangerous Moonlight', broadly based on his second piano concerto. After a lot of deliberation, he refused and Richard Addinsell scored the film at short notice. At the time, their was no intention to use the work outside the film, but it became so popular that it was published as a single movement concerto. For many years, being a film score, it was shunned by classical orchestras. It was only in more recent years that they have now accepted it as a classical work.

wilsjane didn’t know that. Thank you for telling me!!

@@hernanmunozratto5899 A horrible copy of the film posted on You-Tube. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lVcaEOw6qtc.html

I can NEVER understand why, when released in the USA it was retitled "Suicide Squadron"!!