Rachmaninoff Etude Tableau Op 39 No. 6 "Little Red Riding Hood"

Rachmaninoff Etude-Tableau op39#6
Fragment of recording session in Hannover Germany, December 2009. Rachmaninoff Sonata # 1, 6 Moment Musicaux op 16, 4 Preludes

[@DodderingOldMan]

I can't believe this is nearly 9 years old. Time flies... and I still can't play the piano.

[@randomguyontheinternet6546]

DodderingOldMan oh my god, your comment got hearted by Valentina Lisitsa

[@yllhaliti5175]

@@randomguyontheinternet6546 so lucky :'(

[@hangnumburs]

@@randomguyontheinternet6546 i dont have words for lucky

[@sergeirachmaninoff876]

Bruh

[@DodderingOldMan]

@@randomguyontheinternet6546 Oh wow, somehow I didn't even notice until today. Awesome! Although it's pretty emblematic of my life that my admission I'm terrible at piano would get noticed by one of the greatest living pianists :P I feel like I should do something with my newfound fame... um... check out my channel, I've started doing gaming vids... Or is that just too tacky? Yeah, probably.

[@sefirot7953]

Nobody: Rachmaninoff: I enjoy creating psycho pieces

[@pplayer666]

What's so psycho about it? On the contrary it's a very vivid and accurate depiction of the red hood's childish playfulness, a big scary wolf and the chase that ensues as the result of encounter.

[@alanpotter8680]

@@pplayer666 The fact that Rachmaninoff is so good with embedding known images into his music and make it so visual, is what is so psycho about it. He doesn't leave a blank note space.

[@pplayer666]

@@alanpotter8680 to me this piece is a sound analog of a photographic quality painting, where emotions are conveyed so thoroughly and precisely one cannot help but see everything. Perhaps my understanding of psycho differs from some others, that's alright.

[@AlexanderMayall]

The above commenter attributed this piece to the story of Little red riding hood. The story famously depicts the wolf as anthropomorphic. So realistically we can discern that this is a story about a killer. Mr. Wolf stalking A little girl then kills the grandmother then pretends to be the grandmother and then he chased after the little girl and kills her too. To me that’s pretty psycho.

[@alanpotter8680]

@@pplayer666 I think we are on the same page.

[@reynandr.w.279]

0:09 the face you make when you finally catch that lil' mosquito that ruined your sleep

[@questionsrealanswers860]

LooL. PureRevenge?!

[@Scy]

When Gollum finally gets the ring as he falls into the lava.

[@LightLucky]

lil fly u mean

[@cianonpiano6806]

LOOOL

[@johannsebastianbach1649]

Reynand R.W. The face when you finally get the piece of popcorn shell out of your teeth.

[@aSongScout]

well damn. I've been playing piano for 12 years and I can't see myself taking on a piece of this caliber for at least another decade.

[@zAt0mic]

aSongScout I Love your videos man

[@extraterrestrial2299]

Well, you’re halfway through the decade sir! Hopefully, you’re close 😁

[@koffieverslaafde627]

aSongScout almost there?

[@midnightmusic1087]

Maybe because you’re doing something wrong.

[@antonygonzalez1672]

It’s about about how long you’ve been playing for but about the intensity of your practice

[@SC-sf6eq]

She protecc she attacc But more importantly... Her fingers go tacatacatacc

[@Joe-oh5ch]

she play racc

[@sarveshpangam]

LOL

[@LudwigvanBeethoven2]

Lol

[@LiveAliveWithABMartin]

Her attack on those A minor chords are on point.

[@Chris4314]

@@michelleong2762 STOP OMG

[@wedemeyerr]

1:31 I just laughed loud... this was really impressive

[@autumngirl951]

😄😁😆

[@doge_the_cat]

Which chords

[@sovietwizard1620]

As someone who has played piano for many years, this is definetely not the hardest part, its her ability to play so fast and yet so delicate, when you play songs with many repeated notes and trills, the faster it gets the more impossible it gets

[@sj4578]

The name of this etude should really be “strong muscular girl killed skinny little wolf”

[@loko450]

😂 😂 Неплохо

[@samerabijumaa7989]

This is extremely funny 😂😂😂

[@nelsama0881]

In the illustration style of Hirohiko Araki!

[@lawrenceh1405]

LOL, totally awesome characterization! Love it!

[@erdeminoffff]

Best interpretation i have ever heard for this composition .Valentina shows us her genius.

[@johnnyboy1232]

erdeminoff So I see you drive trucks and watch guitar and piano videos on KZbin along with vlogs and conspiracy theories. Your a slight science geek with a love of Rachmaninoff, you wish you were famous and rich. And right now your wondering (how does this guy know so much?) And the answer is 😈😈😈😈 I checked your KZbin subscription 😂😂😂😂. Sorry if I scared you for a second.

[@constracted7331]

John Mace That was beyond random lol

[@johnnyboy1232]

Majed Kalaoun Hello Mr. Classical music and minecraft fan, how's your piano playing going? Still learning that Chopin piece? Nice Instagram account....no posts I see.....you get snow often??? Anyway, have a nice life 😈😈😈😈

[@constracted7331]

John Mace Internet’s a powerful tool, eh?

[@patrickwhiting4831]

@@johnnyboy1232 Wow you are so impressive clicking onto people's profiles like that.

[@littlelamb7006]

She doesn't practice forty hours a day, she practice eighty hours a day.

[@LkFia_]

Ling Ling does it in 40h

[@independentthinker1352]

If she can play slowly, she can play it quickly

[@priya_kristelkhan]

Like how a normal human prodigy would do it

[@samuelcorsie7866]

Ching Ching 100

[@ValkyRiver]

Bruh, Rousseau played it at 0.75x speed of this.

[@tisho91]

I absolutely love this. You have to be extremely crazy to compose this, even crazier to play it, that's the result of Rachmaninoff's music. He's my favorite composer and a personal inspiration. And I love Val's interpretation very much as well! The craziness of the best musicians ever!

[@Burntshmallow]

Rachmaninoff must have been a very strange man to think of this when hearing of Litter Red Riding Hood...

[@Avery_Piano]

Burntshmallow Rachmaninoff never really named his pieces, like so many other composers. it was just a nickname given by the public or someone after publishing

[@rinoceronte1]

Burntshmallow not really, go read the original story by Charles Perrault. And the meaning. It's frightening.

[@anotherdepressedmusician]

Those chromatic runs into those chomping chords are the wolf. The treble responses are little red riding hood. In the end she gets eaten.

[@titustan3893]

Mr Kitrid wait there are differing versions?

[@mlaux72]

This Etudes and other 4 where named by Ottorino Respighi, who created an orchestrated version with Rachmaninoff agreement. Full list below. La foire - (Op. 33, n. 6) La mer et les mouettes - (Op. 39, n. 2) La chaperon rouge et le loup - (Op. 39, n. 6) Marche funèbre - (Op. 39, n. 7) Marche - (Op. 39, n. 9)

[@scatterbrained7050]

Wow this is so calming

[@NotMozart1685]

😂😂

[@theflipeechestlanjao7754]

lol

[@asherjohnston597]

It is

[@kangwakowa8370]

Lol

[@dadoventi]

1:08 Good bye fingers!

[@jacobjames299]

U to hehsydhdhehshyeehhehsueheyey we eyeyeheyhhesjud ugh

[@jagp135]

Jacob James I agree

[@sergeirachmaninoff876]

Bruh

[@ccret4383]

it's like on fast forward lol

[@hellcat553]

@@ccret4383 no noob

[@rynerlute2242]

Red riding hood on drugs

[@Freaknick0Beatnick]

lmao

[@NoaPi_]

Lol this is what i want to say

[@TyronTention]

There's a version of the Red Riding Hood story where the girl gets tricked into cannibalizing her grandmother and then she, too, is killed by the wolf. That's the version of the story I link to think this piece fits. Scary.

[@jaskiratpianist]

Ahahahahaha!

[@johnnyboy1232]

Ryner Lute Just like your profile picture. JK 😂😂😂

[@FarFromZero]

Like she doesn't "press" any of these piano keys at all. Her fingers are just floating softly over the keys, hardly touching them - and they press themselves by pure reverence. That's magic.

[@inazuma3gou]

Intel Inside.

[@scottalexander_]

Mario Lopez lol

[@leonardomerlini6715]

i'm a little late

[@legendaryclasher3684]

Mily Balakirev hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[@Atombre4ker]

Guys? Am I too late?

[@orilevy2554]

Andrew Marcus Amd Threadripper Inside Oh wait that didn’t exist back when you wrote this

[@pakyukwokalex3683]

The Wolf was running so fast!

[@davisatdavis1]

Tip for beginner pianists: Don't watch this video.

[@spikespiegel6890]

Hmmm where else have I seen this comment....

[@Majestic469]

@@spikespiegel6890 on Rousseau's videos

[@IbtihalMahmood]

I disagree. Watch and practice so you can play like THIS!

[@Nickkxiii]

I watched it Now I don't know what piano is

[@Lolmenchek]

Actually true. Watching hard pieces made me want to play them instead of my level

[@YosukeTmr]

Why does my smartphone automatically play only her videos at double speed?😂

[@DarkblueRadiance]

The idea of "Little Red Riding Hood" is from Rachmaninoff himself. And when I listen to her performance, it does remind me of Little Red Riding Hood found and chased by the wolf. I personally think the speed and weight are absolutely fitting for this piece. :)

[@kangwakowa8370]

EXACTLY

[@JesseBFournier]

when i heard the older video of Valentina playing this piece a long time ago i knew from the first few notes that she was a great artist. I don't always prefer her versions of the pieces but i always do a small detour to hear what she has to show with great enthusiasm :) what a great pianist and internet personality she is.

[@BicicIentiu]

1:12 Her hands are jumping faster than it took the keys to bounce back. I'm done.

[@mountchoco8174]

I knew some witchcraft was going on

[@lawrencewei3583]

Double escapement mechanism

[@pavlosgermanidis2754]

Actually, her timing is not good in this part. You can hear those bars clearly pronounced at the same tempo in other recordings (e.g. Lugansky).

[@meropale]

I absolutely love this this piece. So many emotions go through me. Valentina plays it like no one else. Simply wow.

[@yimmieyammie]

beethoven: joy and and feelings and stuff.dont have time for this must *compose* brahms: whatever keys i press sound good. you like hangary? liszt: i paid for the whole damn piano ima use the whole damn piano. rachmaninoff: *these keys are soaked in the blood of the innocent you can hear their screams in the chords* chopin: sometimes fun, depressed. need another hand to play mozart: im so majestic and elegant, im sippin on Cabernet Sauvignon

[@stevenquach8520]

lmao did you steal this from a rousseau video

[@pianistofmusic290]

@@stevenquach8520 YES

[@insearchofpeace2151]

And Bach?

[@dalaibrahim]

@@insearchofpeace2151 lives off of his students’ suffering

[@teevee1782]

I swear I saw this exact same comment on Rousseasu's video

[@Andrew-lu7tw]

When this piece is played this fast it really gives you the interpretation or vision of what could be happening in a scene between Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Listening to it slower just makes you admire the craft of the piece.

[@sjy4193]

Like tom is catching a jerry

[@hisvvdhsuwvdhd620]

Mily Balakirev thats not possible i see you in all coments of Classic music

[@pianoforte17xx48]

like wolf is catching the red girl

[@legendaryclasher3684]

Weldon Percy yeah

[@SS-ci8jk]

한쿡인 반카워

[@NameNik223]

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 would be better for that

[@therainforest4314]

Ferociously, exquisitely, articulated, and so incredibly focused. Absolutely beautiful. Thank you for the inspiration, Valentina Lisitsa. :)

[@pakyukwokalex3683]

her CPU's clocking rate is very high :)

[@alexismandelias]

It's not the clocking rate. It's the actions it can do per cycle

[@stephthealmighty268]

@@leesiheon8013 r/whoooosh

[@shanmukhasrinandar1252]

its probably ∞ Ghz

[@anatolydyatlov963]

@@shanmukhasrinandar1252 That would make a black hole out of her

[@hellcat553]

7ghz

[@rodovre]

Breathtaking! Watched more than 10 times in a row, and still admiring every note...

[@christo7105]

I've listened to it at least 100 times and I sill enjoy it....

[@ElegantNight]

Everytime I watch you play it makes me want to cry because you're so good! Just watching your hands move across the piano puts me (and everyone I show your videos to) in a state of awe! And I've seen this video like 20 times, I just can't stop watching it, I play it over and over.

[@fxlamare]

Just wonderful, amazing. So powerful and as always subtil touch... Bravo !

[@meylinfox]

Listening to this makes Rousseau's performance seem so slow

[@_sleeved_shallows_12]

Ya

[@hkginger]

Fantastic, Valentina! Always enjoy your performances!!!

[@youngchung2]

seriously, thank you for posting all these videos....a great service to all classical music lovers out there

[@Agblat]

Clarity, precision, expression, not a theme or note lost, and a clear love for music. Bravo!

[@thibomeurkens2296]

This piece seems like it’s not even written for its beauty just for the virtuoso who plays it to show off their immaculate skills! This performance is truly tremendous!

[@mariofraser6298]

Quelle musicalité quelle technique quelle artiste et...quelle pianiste!!🎹🎶🎶🎶

[@IBlackRockI]

just incredible. now one of your most beautiful interpretations finally enhanced by HD :D

[@blap0220]

i love that you created a new video of this song! Thank you!

[@vekasvanidze]

fantastic artistic performance!!! most exquisite sound!!!

[@kleinrobert6314]

Musik ist auf keinen Fall einen Performanz !....

[@vekasvanidze]

May I ask you, are you a musician? This piece is called the Red Riding Hood:)) everything is relative

[@vincentchaikchan4340]

Veka Svanidze Well, she's a world-class pianist. One of the best in the world in my opinion.

[@legendaryclasher3684]

Klein Robert yes of course, music is performance. Without performance you have only scores.

[@odb1128]

0:01 늑대울음소리 0:11 소녀가 긴장하는 모습 0:40 소녀를 발견한 늑대/ 살금살금 뒤쫓아가는 늑대 1:09 걸음아 나살려라!! 1:43 Tempo 1

[@killuazoldyck2053]

Valentina, you are truly a master. I think it safe to say one of, if not the best pianist(s) of our time.

[@Elijah24553]

Wow, She reached day 3 of simply piano!

[@gaelgarcia7000]

1:31 the most Russian musical phrase that you could ever heard Hahaha

[@JamesLongPDX]

This is my favorite performance and recording of this piece. John Ogden would be proud!

[@RachScriabin]

What a performance!!!!...one of my favorites thank you for posting!

[@nexusseth1282]

The best interpretation of this piece i've ever heard. You did a wonderful job !

[@hello-gh4lr]

@@russell3642 damm bro your so brain ded her version is wayyyyy better

[@MrTPavlov]

Set the speed to 1.5. 1:07. Enjoy :)

[@diegotroetsch6303]

Todor Pavlov omg hahaha

[@pakyukwokalex3683]

+Todor Pavlov 1.25x is already much enough haha...

[@2534Jonathan]

Todor Pavlov the original speed is enough 😂😂

[@artyomabrahamyan5650]

Compared to performances by others, Valentina already set the speed to 1.5)) ))))

[@MatPlayz]

Its so fast it lags for ma

[@Davsan1]

I watch this from time and time just to see 0:08 to 0:010

[@user-dj6ht9bz1y]

***** Valentinas face :)

[@maxxmadd8487]

valentina's gollum face

[@severussnape5171]

David my....precious...keyboard...gollum! gollum! lol

[@henrydenner5448]

Absolutely!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnnyboy1232]

James Liu yeah

[@mfiadeiro]

For me this is THE BEST interpretation of this Etude-Tableau!! Kudos for Valentina. Thank you Thank you Thank you!

[@alinnman]

This is sooo good! Listening to this again... and again!

[@twines2804]

The accuracy is what amazes me.

[@Knskyzlp]

Wow, Rachmaninoff's octopus finger style! )))

[@kristinasemaschko7671]

She doesn't practise the piano, the piano practises her.

[@Koymbi]

Thank you for sharing these incredible performances. Regards from Greece.

[@anibration]

About a decade later, the secret has been revealed... *She's a robot*

[@mynona2491]

Without sheet. My fingers hurt from imagine what she's gone trough in practicing. Mad respect

[@willemvdr12]

Oh my god. Perfect piano, perfect videoquality, perfect pianiste, amazing.

[@lookerona]

Браво, Валентина! Спасибо! Вы изумительный бриллиант в короне рояля!

[@fransiscacatherine7724]

1:30 The Red riding hood is running from the wolf?

[@alexeyzaboev9174]

RRH shot 'em down :)

[@Pakkens_Backyard]

"running" haha

[@j.p.2209]

No! She runs in 01:07

[@johnnyboy1232]

She runs the whole song, just not from the wolf 😈😈😈

[@anotherdepressedmusician]

The lower bases areas like what you put is the wolf chasing her, the frantic treble responses are her running away. It dies down later where she’s run out of breath and the wolf (end chords) and eaten her

[@nothingmoretocontribute1866]

clicked randomly, stayed intentionally

[@PianistDanielFritzen]

brilliant. And beautiful sound. Every single note is harmonically felt.

[@zacharynordlundpiano]

Yes!!! Never will get old, one of my first inspirational videos with Valentina, my idol!

[@marcmignon22]

Bravissimo Valentina !!!

[@valentinalove6886]

Marc Mignon is italian what are you speaking?

[@bbollangoggy250]

@@valentinalove6886 yes

[@LudwigvanBeethoven2]

1:09 her fingers gets to play higher octaves before the pressed keys get up.

[@789armstrong]

Pretty fabulous. Leaves all the competition in the shade.

[@BobsArtGallery]

Marvelous, amazing, and great playing !!...May God bless you and protect you !!...Thanks for sharing your wonders with us.

[@Kacperlogin]

Her Little red riding hood is possessed, i think wolf could be frightened. Valentina tells different story...

[@DodderingOldMan]

Aaaaahhh... watching stuff like this reminds me just how incredibly awesome human beings can be at their best. Both the composer and the performer are just so... unbelievably fantastic. Stuff like this restores my sometimes-ailing faith in humanity.

[@ThaPianoPlaya]

You always seem to impress me, Valentina! This is absolutely amazing! I think I have a new favorite KZbin video

[@TheHypnotstCollector]

Headlines:: "Pianist drops little girl right into the mouth of a wolf!" "Experts say only a red cape was found, little girl was gone in a flash, felt nothing. ...Maybe some bewildered confusion and panic...." More on 6pm news..

[@johnnyboy1232]

TheHypnotstCollector haha, your such a Savage!!!!

[@wedemeyerr]

I'm sure in 212 years I'm ready to play this

[@georgyyurchenko7815]

Я не могу... На самом деле хочется сказать Вам, Валентина Евгеньевна, огромное спасибо, за такую интерпретацию! Великолепно! Браво!

[@juliasuarez9682]

out of this world! Txs Marcel!

[@musicnarts22]

When I listen to Valentina's performances my brain just lights up! It's as if each section of my brain is being stimulated as I follow the sound of each note. Ahh :)

[@timspiano5054]

1:08 now that is hard - look at those left hand jumps and imagine playing that in time with all those fast chords in the right hand? All in all amazing 🤩 P.S. The reverb adds another cool touch!

[@johnpearcey]

Shockingly good. Thanks Valentina.

[@MerrittJeff1970]

I cant tell you how greatfull I am you putting this up on the web!

[@prss1563]

I'm not afraid to say this might be the best Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableaux op. 39 no. 6 interpretation

[@user-ei6oc6ru2p]

Как всегда БРАВО!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@peterhasse1395]

The queen of Rachmaninoff strikes again

[@thenickelplatedcondor8444]

This song/version is in my top ten all time favorite songs. Valentina is really good.

[@Pakkens_Backyard]

So I've been reading through this thing since last night, and I can tell you the right hand is nowhere even NEAR the left hand in terms of difficulty. Sure the right hand is fast and stuff, but the left hand has to FLY constantly lol

[@LeeGamerYT]

Although this song is amazing, I like the way Rousseau played it, play this song at 0.75x speed :)!

[@ThePokemonTrainerr]

Agreed! I feel like this version is a bit too rushed and it loses its wickedness.

[@sammybulin]

Truly amazing woman! So talented.

[@ninjaassassin27]

rachmaninoff never ceases to amaze me... and this woman knows how to play, too. spectacular, and i am humbled....

[@unamae2]

i can't even imagine what the sheet music looks like to this

[@marlenebennett4677]

0.75 was the speed Rosseau was playing

[@girlgaming1993]

Marlene Bennett i prefer the speed rosseau was playing at

[@Xyrox211]

@@girlgaming1993 nah fam shred

[@emroy.129]

same, i can appreciate the more subtle notes at that speed

[@TheModicaLiszt]

But is 0.75 speed what Rachmaninoff intended, Rosseau lovers? Indeed not

[@aya-yk8iq]

@damnation her*

[@Imoutanames]

Aren't you something!!! Awesome!!! Thanks for posting such great work!!!

[@philipsmith3084]

Awesome! These etudes are the finest in piano literature.

[@Magnet12]

gotta catch em all !

[@sergeirachmaninov8186]

I guess you could say this will Rachyoursocksoff?

[@ogranesson]

_get out_

[@ruthsalgado6775]

LOL😂

[@dimitriskreatsoulas]

Its so perfect to see 3 uploads of this beautiful etude from the same person all last 2:21 so good and very strict with tempo i really envy you !! :)

[@Bonatz21]

Woooowww - absolutely marvellous!!! I recently had the pleasure to hear you at Cologne Philharmonic (sat in Z2, a few seats left of Pieter and Alexei) and was overwhelmed.... broadcast will be repeated next sunday, dec 19, on radio DLF, 7:05 p.m. (UTC). I wish you all the best and hope, you'll soon come back again. So long, waiting for the CDs with LSO...

[@tedbohne7528]

this is the tempo this piece is played

[@wedemeyerr]

I agree. Now this piece makes sense 😉

[@tommasozucol4160]

This is too fast, even its own creator used to play this much slowly

[@tedbohne7528]

let's see, i'm a little girl running from a wolf....you take it from there.........

[@789armstrong]

I would love to hear Valentina play all 17 Etudes, and especially the one in E flat minor opus 39 #5.

[@cloud15489]

The finger movements are so smooth and elegant

[@musicamuse55]

You are indescribable. Phenomenal.

[@sergeirachmaninov8186]

Великолепно!

[@mawreena-]

You fecker! How is anyone supposed to play ANY of your pieces????

[@sofiakomarova7803]

@@mawreena- hahaha

[@nancyjohnstone]

Sergei Rachmaninov hey