Beethoven Sonata #30 in E major, Op. 109 Valentina Lisitsa

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

The third movement is among the most mystic music ever composed, the variations are like talking to you from another world, until the last variation takes you to another dimension, and then, like nothing has happened, you are brought back to the main theme, closing the sonata like gradually waking up from a dream.

[@emmadevine8439]

I have never used KZbin notifications before but when Valentina releases a new sonata I drop everything

[@СергейАрхитектор]

Не перестаю восхищаться! Сонаты Бетховена в Вашем исполнении - это настоящий непревзойдённый Космос! Браво!!!

[@georges3349]

Valentina, I’m 16 (almost 17) years old and i started piano when i was 5. However, i never quite had true passion for it until about a year ago and i truly believe you and your channel inspired and motivated me so much to get where I am now, both in terms of technique and emotional connection and maturity. I just want to say thank you and to kindly ask that you never stop posting and sharing your passion and tremendous skill with the world, regardless of what commenters and critics say. Love from Chicago :))

[@dylanmorgan7900]

Same with me, it was always a chore to practice but at exactly the same time as you (age 16, almost 17) I fell in love. I remember the exact moment, when I heard Chopin Etude op 25 no 1 for the first time and I knew there was so much more to classical music than what I ever imagined. I'm 19 now and currently working to do my DipABRSM, I did my grade 8 when I was 16 and vowed to never practice piano again and a couple month later it became my obsession and number 1 priority and it still is today.

[@anatolyevd8001]

Валентина Евгеньевна, спасибо за Ваше искусство. Вы лучшая!

[@domenicodiegotuccillo]

This is the best birthday gift I would have desired for today❤ Valentina, you are the best!

[@murdo_mck]

I. Vivace, ma non troppo / Adagio espressivo in E major 0:00 II. Prestissimo in E minor 4:36 III. Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung. Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo in E major 6:56 Var. I 9:32 Var. II 11:43 Var. III 13:31 Var. IV 13:54 Var. V 16:26 Var. VI 17:20 coda 19:39

[@leemotosuwa]

Thank you. You are a hero 😍

[@ordinaryguy8926]

Screw the critic, we ain't robot. Emotion is what makes a piece can sound beauty & unique to different pianist

[@vincentd.centenophd263]

Well said.

[@aidanstrong1061]

One of the best interpretations of the last variation I've ever heard. Amazing dynamic control as well as the amazing ecstasy in the demisemiquaver passage.

[@АлевтинаЧернова-ю2с]

Восхищаюсь Вашим талантом и как Вы им распоряжаетесь!!!

[@ЕкатеринаМелодичная]

Валентина, спасибо Вам за труд! Вы чудесная и удивительная!

[@kumkwat6208]

Очень недооцененная соната, одна из моих любимых у Бетховена. Валентина, спасибо вам за то, что раскрываете красоту этой музыки и дарите её людям! Слушать вас всегда удовольствие! А также отдельное спасибо за полную запись фортепианного Чайковского на Decca. Это просто чудо какое-то!

[@Pianist_24680]

Валентина Евгеньевна, Вы лучшая исполнительница классической музыки. Дай бог Вам здоровья и успехов в творчестве. Вы очень виртуозная, и талантливая. Поиграйте все этюды Листа, Рахманинова и другие произведения композиторов - романтиков! Я балдею от Вашей виртуозной игры на рояле. Надеюсь, что я с Вами как нибудь увижусь, потому что Вы мой кумир. Благодарю Вас за шикарное исполнение сонаты Бетховена. До встречи с Вами с уважением, ваш поклонник, пианист Хазипов Антон.

[@mibemolmineur15-3]

Согласна, Валентина Лисица - очень талантливая пианистка, переиграла практически всех романтиков на необычном рояле Bosendorfer! Здоровья и успехов Валентине Евгеньевне Лисице! Надо обязательно увидеться с великой пианисткой на сольном концерте

[@LyndseyMacPherson]

Ain't no driving from this person in the back seat, just hands pressed to headphones, pushing them into my ears to block out all else but the sublime.

[@alessiocoletta9218]

I sincerely think you are an extremely genuine, self-conscious, down to earth pianist, whose tempi choices are perfectly calibrated and always reasoned and thought through. Plus you have such a unique and outstanding playing style, a pristine clarity of sounds as well as an incredible range of dynamics. Don't ever stop playing! And do not care about critics, who often just feel like judging without any background knowledge of classical music.

[@ibenenson]

No better words can be found

[@johnkuehne4040]

Thank you for this performance. #30 has been my favorite since I first heard it at age 17 in 1977. I'm hearing new things revealed in your performance that make it even more special.

[@qadile]

Wonderful. Breathtaking. Valentina, it takes courage and character to play this extraordinary music with such transparent honesty and emotional depth. Thank you so much for sharing this performance.

[@crewelocoman5b161]

Valentina: The freedom and flexibility of the opening movement was a joy to behold while you caught those magical moments in the central variations of the concluding movement where Beethoven seems to be at Heaven's gate.

[@drakekay6577]

YOU, Crewelocoman are freaking Awesome!!! :D

[@johannesdenee6007]

Valentina, you bring light to a world slowly disappearing into darkness (again). Thank you.

[@garfreed]

One of my favorite Beethoven piano sonatas. The variations are sublime! Thank you. Thank you.

[@cypherpunko]

When I listen to this, I understand viscerally and literally what the description "breathtaking" means!

[@Desireyso58]

The One and ONLY!!! La Divina VALENTINA!!! LISITSA it's the Best... EVER!!!

[@Lulu-jl5zd]

My favourite piece by Beethoven and my favourite pianist... what's not to like. That first movement is made of spider silk and what beautiful playing... the second is steel and then Beethoven sits us down in the finale for a chat - - - about the universe itself. Beautiful Valentina thank you so much.

[@lightspeed174]

Beautiful woman and pianist, and wonderfully played. Valentina has made Beethoven's music come alive. She is truly a great pianist. Thankyou for the upload.

[@mihalescu2702]

It is impossible not to be amazed! The delicacy with which you play the piano is incomparable!❤❤

[@gordonmartin11]

A masterful interpretation and a fresh look that reinvents the work : what more could you ask for ? Once again a thousand bravos Valentina !

[@robertobarbieri9066]

Meravigliosa interpretazione di una delle più "intime" e sublimi sonate di Beethoven. Grazie a Valentina, grandissima pianista e artista.

[@solbriller1]

One more. Respect!! This is one of the first times i listened to a piece and a version that i wished would not stop

[@vampichoto]

Thank you Valentina

[@elchristian]

I like Claudio Arrau (he was a chilean pianist, I'm chilean) but I like your style Valentina. It's a pleasure to hear you. Thanks for your performance and I hope some day to see you in concert. Have a nice day.

[@franciscofragoeiro5229]

That dynamic range and control though!!! Amazing

[@23Nigma]

Как всегда прекрасно! Все чаще убеждаюсь - вы лучшая из современников!

[@FirstGentleman1]

I enjoyed it from start to finish. It's my favorite Beethoven Piano Sonata.

[@MultiNacnud]

Thank you Valentina.Your playing brings a little brightness to our dark and dreary winter nights.

[@seany2345]

Valentina “Ligato” Lisitsa ❤️❤️❤️ I can listen to no one else play piano after hearing her!

[@Ridicolosamente]

So pleasantly surprised to find *THIS* E major sonata posted after the Pathetique. This has long been my "favorite" Beethoven sonata, and I enjoyed every moment of this performance here. Thanks for sharing this incredible gift with us all!!

[@Nobilangelo]

The worst is when a pianist is playing music by Beethoven on a piano. The best--as here---is when Beethoven is speaking to us with a piano through a true pianist.

[@joseluisnunezrivera3615]

Absolutely wonderful, loving your piano skills forever and always... Greetings from Chile 🥰

[@garywilson3042]

The 3rd movement brings me joy every time I hear it.

[@diegoink156]

MY FAVOURITE ONE YEAH !

[@tmosfer]

BRAVO VALENTINA.. 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@mattette]

Brava*

[@leemotosuwa]

@@mattette no. The correct is BRAVO. It ends with "O".

[@mattette]

@@leemotosuwa Valentina is a woman, not a man, bravo is the male adjective, bravA is the female adjective

[@leemotosuwa]

@@mattette OMG, and you think he is calling her BRAVO? That's what you think? That he is using It as an adjective?

[@mattette]

@@leemotosuwa bravo/a is an adjective...

[@xavinara]

Wonderful performance. Thank you for your artistry and thank you for sharing

[@XY_Dude]

As I am a subscriber, every time your new music comes up I rush to play it. Always enjoy your music. Good job! Oh, and please do another GoPro performance. It’s such a joy to make us feel like a famous pianist playing the music!

[@gustavomiranda8279]

Incredible i love this sonata

[@donaldcrawfordiii554]

My dear, your way allows for the hearing of each note! Always your way, and not like those other people! Thankyou so much for your time and effort.

[@j.d.thompson3505]

Lovely and sadly unknown to most people. Thank you. Refreshing and mesmerizing song.

[@doriskhoury8749]

Wow Valentina ! You are our queen of the piano. Your sonatas give happiness and incentive to go on living . Long live our queen.

[@porcinet1968]

dear Ms Lisitsa I don't think I have ever heard a more emotionally devastating performance of that magnificent "mini-Goldbergs" that forms the last movement. I shared it on my Facebook with this comment: "towards the end of the movement it is like the deeply sad theme has been set on fire, it evokes sparks and light with trills and constant movement, the descending figures under the trills really do sound like church bells this time! Valentina Lisitsa plays it so sensitively and expressively, bringing tears to my eyes more than once - not where one might expect it but in the delicate little things in the music that speak a kind of threadbare, exhausted tenderness after the deep sorrow of the original presentation of the theme. This is a performance so potent it feels wrong to listen to it while the sun is still shining - this is music for late at night". Forget about the "critics", their performances render the music meaningless and boring even if they are "correct" about tempi.

[@ricardotiemersma1004]

Thank you! You brought tears to my eyes. What a work of art. Beethoven must have loved the Brentano woman.

[@clyneheretic]

Spectacularly amazing! - will enyone ever be able to match this wonderful woman's talent?

[@kazuchatani7698]

Listening to 3rd times in roles laying on a bed enjoying Saturday what a beautiful time you can create. Visiting new town past 4weeks, bit challenging to find a piano to play. I was fed much by this beauty by this performance. My on line critiques would be my heart was filled with much of goodness that my words can only go so far to express. I seek one that created us all in this moments to indulge what He has created through you and all that it took to creat this moment. Oh I love love love

[@LachlanTyrrell2003]

I believe this is the greatest interpretation of this piece. I love your choice of tempi and your control of dynamics.

[@johnharrison2741]

Wow! Beautiful playing by a beautiful lady. I love how you sing and dance as you play; how this is transferred in to the sound we hear. That incredible instrument positively sings with you! Bravo indeed Valentina!

[@FrankTerpoorten]

Valentina thanks for the fantastic rendition of a sonata No. 30 by Beethoven, a fan

[@mauriziobui4533]

Finally "my" Valentina is back ... Wonderful🌹✨🌹✨🌹✨💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@K-ymodoke]

Like a dream 🌺🌷

[@therussiantrollnetwork7464]

Is there anyone better than her? Amazing :)

[@ericboero]

This is the best interpretation I never heard of the Sonata #30.Valentina,when do you think we could listen to the missing Sonatas? Goodbye and thank you for the pleasure you give us with your Music.

[@crunch2312]

Спасибо, Вы очень талантливая.

[@AlecKollman]

Thank you for gracing our ears with your lovely tunage

[@solbriller1]

Hi Valentina. Some of the absolut better piano playing i have heard. A mature artist in total harmony with Ludwig. What a pleasure

[@robertajoestar4636]

Frumos, elegant, perfectiune♥️♥️♥️♥️🤩🙂🙂🤯🤯

[@porcinet1968]

you are also one of the few pianists I have seen where you can see the music and its shape in your hands - one could watch them in silence and yet feel the expression

[@snkuntjoro]

Best Beethoven ever !

[@mibemolmineur15-3]

Валентина Евгеньевна Лисица, Вы очень технично исполняете Бетховена! Желаю Вам записать все 32 сонаты Бетховена и всех композиторов эпохи романтизма!

[@michailkotin6964]

Технично кто его только ни исполняет. Её преимущество - в другом...

[@MrFrapado]

Another lovely treat for a very wet day here. Elegant presentation & performance. A real Joy for the senses. All our Love & best wishes for this Titanic Adventure 👏🎵🎹🎶🥰🌹🧡👑🙏🌷🌸🕊💃🎵🌼👏 Thank You! 🥰🥰🥰🌹🌹🌹

[@marysheerin747]

Sublime. Thank you so much.

[@claudiobombini2956]

no tenes que explicar nada a nadie, tu arte es tu arte , so lo agradecerte el regalo que nos das...el arte no se explica se siente

[@tangoalpha4763]

Magnifique. ENCORE, ENCORE !

[@ctk7709]

Absolutely wonderful as always. Thank you

[@gorandobrenovic3325]

Beautiful, it's a pleasure to listen to you ... thank you Valentine.

[@alvarofierroclavero7965]

Valentina, eres una maravilla de pianista. Muchas gracias por estas grabaciones que pienso escuchar inmediatamente.

[@coolchef64]

I get it. Wearing black summons the somber spirit of this piece. Visual is just as important, as I see it. Good choice.

[@112Allegro]

Great last movement of this sonata, Valentina! Brava!

[@samynohff]

Val Val Val, always and ever spectacular, moving my feelings and mind, extracting our emotions involuntarily,, What're you ? A piano fairy ? Perhaps...

[@osmhrk3543]

vivaceでもespressivoでもprestissimoでもないようにごく無造作に弾いていくようなのにヴァリエーションまですこしずつ音楽が積み上がっていき聴き手はいつの間にか彼女に包まれてしまう、そんな演奏だ。テンポや装飾音の処理などで？という部分もあるがなにしろハーモニーの出し方が官能的と言ってもいいほどにすばらしいので結局惹き込まれてしまう。後ろの二曲をどう弾くのか、ほんとうに楽しみ。

[@L.M1792]

The piece from 7:39 is a beautiful interluding part. I can hear so many American style ballads in the four minutes that follow. To think he was only 56 when he moved on, quite astonishing, his depth of understanding. Kind regards LM

[@metubemetube]

Her emotional touches bring me some old memories... really enjoyed it! Thanks

[@olivierbolton8683]

Valentina your music is like breathing sonata...

[@Eyrok]

You are my favourite pianist, really. I love how you play the piano, the emotion and skills you show are amazing. I'm so glad I know you and can enjoy your talent. Keep it up !

[@stephenlecouteur395]

A sublimely beautiful and refreshing interpretation, thankyou Litisa.

[@stephenlecouteur395]

I mean Valentina, sorry☺

[@chrisferne8480]

Bravissima! 💖 Superba.

[@alvarito45]

No matter what, I love your playing deeply. Now when tempi are supposed to be wrong and our friend Winters is making the versions after Czerny's marks I am, as many dilettanti, inclined to be in the middle. Please Valentina continue playing as it comes from your heart. That how it must be.

[@Smotri-kinofilm_Vremya_..2011.]

ЗАМЕЧАТЕЛЬНО !

[@vrendus522]

Beautiful and beautifully played. Thanks

[@ronwalker4849]

NICE PLAYING, AND VERY DYNAMIC DISPLAYING ALL THE NATURAL CHANGES IN THE PIECE. IT ALSO SHOWS THAT BEETHOVE WAS MORE THAN A BIT MAD, BUT WE HAVE THIS INTIMATE VIEW OF HIS INNER SOUL, VERY WELL INTERPRETED HERE. I ENJOY ALL THE CHANGES IN TEMPI THROUGHOUT- AS IT SHOULD BE.

[@marcopavone8695]

I never heard someone playing like you. It's wonderful.

[@NoName-fw2cu]

Beautiful Valentina

[@willstaas5490]

Watching this inspires me to learn this piece when I’m older, thank you ,you are the best

[@jjp91]

I have been hoping to see this pianist perform this sonata; Valentina's incredibly expressive hands releasing those impossibly beautiful lyric sounds from the instrument. And at the conclusion, the sense that all has flowed inevitably from the opening moments. (As with her K475.) As to tempi... does anyone share my purely subjective reaction that her playing is increasingly "youthful" as it matures and deepens? Another milestone in my 78 year long path of learning what it means to be human. Most grateful, Ms. Lisitsa

[@Mavi98479]

Complimenti! Bella esecuzione!

[@giuliacantelli]

Ciao Valentina !! È sempre bello sentirti !! Un caro saluto !! Con Amicizia : GiuliArt

[@haraldschafer5757]

So schön Valentina ☺

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

This performance reminds me of why I love the piano and Beethoven! Every note is clear! Many thanks.

[@antadopteuntrip7086]

Perfection

[@NilsRPet]

Your playing I won't comment. Other knowledgeable people do that better. What I want to say is that the recording is fantastic! With (not so expensive) earphones I feel like almost being there. Thank you, Valentina, and keep up your tremendously well performed interpretations of good music!

[@raksm]

I love hear you playing!!! So many expression, feeling, everything. One day I'll play 'almost' like this. 💜😍

[@StephenPiano]

Amazing! 😍 Btw I'll be at your concert on the 1st of March! Can't wait 😃

[@m.calloway2624]

What a terrific performance! Thanks for post.

[@pacobrezel]

Such a marvelous piece. Very nice played. Marked it for my little daughter's play list! Don't mind the critics. Like narrating, its your artistic style. Plus that even Beethoven may have had different interpretations.