It is incredible that this internationally famous star is prepared to play a piano that is provided for anyone who wishes to play at St Pancras Station. It demonstrates to me what a wonderful personality she has in addition to her music skills. Michael Parkinson
@rockinredneck57
10 жыл бұрын
I think it doesn't matter what piano she plays, she makes it sound like a million bucks. Gifted beyond belief, it's inspirational to see her share her beautiful gift in public like this. It's not degrading at all. Not to her or the composers. I think they'd be happy she's sharing their gifts as well.
@clyneheretic
5 жыл бұрын
"Gifted beyond belief" - that's the best description of this goddess that I've heard!
@irmasil3
8 жыл бұрын
Apart from her amazing skill and beautiful tone, I always enjoy the fact that Valentina has this "I love to play" approach and she is not afraid to be exposed, make mistakes (although that is VEEERY rare), play in crapy pianos everywhere for people to enjoy. A true master that tries to bring this rather "difficult" and "elegant" saloon instrument to the public. Excellent approach!
@TheTardstrong
8 жыл бұрын
I cant imagine traveling through the station and fucking Valentina is randomly crushing some of the greatest pieces ever written on a piano that has seen better days.I wonder how many of these travelers had no idea who she was when they happened upon her?
@geysergary
9 жыл бұрын
And when she finished, the piano wept with joy and the years of abuse and neglect fell away.
@therainforest4314
3 жыл бұрын
She has such an amazingly bright, beautiful smile. :)
@abaer65
11 жыл бұрын
Wow. She is my hero. Love that profile view from her... :-) Thank you for sharing !!!!
@katlol2753
8 жыл бұрын
You aré so lucky because you had the opportunity to watch her playing the piano in real life
@Nobilangelo
2 жыл бұрын
'Who is that, Mummy?' 'That is world-famous, wonderful Valentina making golden music from a straw piano.'
@mightstone
11 жыл бұрын
That piano has now finally lived a full life.
@pepitomateo1
10 жыл бұрын
I HAVE NO WORDS... BRUTAL!!
@Qee7en
10 жыл бұрын
Well, as Richter once said: a pianist should be able to play on any piano. (Please note that Richter took the same Yamaha grand piano to every performance he did.)
@lefinlay
6 жыл бұрын
The Moonwalker, I imagine he said that to justify him using a Yamaha
@colinmurphy2214
5 жыл бұрын
A Man Has No Name my same thought lol
@Smaug1
4 жыл бұрын
@@lefinlay ...or he just liked the sound of that particular piano. Doesn't mean he couldn't play others, it just means he wanted to sound a certain way. Glen Gould tuned up a couple of pianos just for playing Bach, for example.
@CaptainMittens831
10 жыл бұрын
My phone just died listening to this awesomeness cheers
@lisitsavalentino4034
6 жыл бұрын
I dont know why but she looks even more awesome on these casual broken uprights than on bosendorfers and steinways!
@kwindsor3365
2 жыл бұрын
A life-enhancing experience, God bless her for sharing her playing. By the way the piano is an August Forster not some old beat up pub piano but one of the best German makes and though sadly neglected the underlying quality of sound is terrific.
@dmbassa
9 жыл бұрын
I am in complete awe as to how the hell these guys (whoever shot this video) even managed to get someone like fucking Valentina to play on a randomly placed piano... Damn!!! My hats off to you, man! This is serious shit!
@LeeTheRogue
3 жыл бұрын
God I LOVE HER so much. WHAT MUSIC!!!!!!!
@Nobilangelo
2 жыл бұрын
Beethoven would have fallen instantly in love.
@cuteshox
11 жыл бұрын
Her playing is divine no matter what type of piano she touches.
@leelokyan1923
11 жыл бұрын
if you were curious - another video from the same day states in the description that all trains to Paris were halted due to a snowstorm in France. I assume that's why she held a mini recital on an old piano at a train station.
@bw2082
10 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised the piano's action was good enough to keep up with her fingers.
@glazeretienne2734
9 жыл бұрын
bw2082 and in tune
@warrengwonka2479
4 жыл бұрын
bw2082 A tuner has said it’s a pretty good piano in spite of the missing key top and treble a bit out of tune.
@Loofie1-t9t
3 жыл бұрын
She played slow
@MichaelAlexander1967
5 жыл бұрын
Oh that God will use us all to be instruments of his marvelous works!
@Waleria-Kwiatkowska
11 жыл бұрын
this is Genius how she managed to Play all These pieces outside at a temperature of maybe 5 degree :O she is great i love her she is my role model
@89tryu
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks fm Japan!
@colinmurphy2214
5 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, the piano, as shitty as it currently is, is an August Förster. One of the very best pianos made. Incredibly small company only makes a handful of instruments a year. Completely handmade, the favorite piano of the local piano technician. He’s worked on Steinway, Bosendorfer, Bechstein, Bluthner, Fazioli, he says August is his favorite. I can’t believe this dump of an instrument was once one of the best instruments made
@stevej061069
8 ай бұрын
Imagine giving it a quick go, thinking 'yeah that impressed everyone' and then one of the worlds foremost concert pianists quietly sits down after you...
@luizflaviodecastroandre2799
11 жыл бұрын
Fantástico!!!!!!!beautiful!!!!!!!
@owlsley5
7 жыл бұрын
Valentina could play a tin can and make it sound like heaven. What a woman!
@inazuma3gou
9 жыл бұрын
Valentina is playing so fast she is bending the space around her.... or the camera is doing something weird.
@nickinson89
9 жыл бұрын
Andrew Marcus HAHAHA she's a space bender
@gabrieleruffini4884
2 жыл бұрын
Somebody wins the national lottery somebody walkimg listen to Valentina Lisitsa playing the piano on a street!!!!!!!
@silviocorrea5271
5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic
@maXXik1337
8 жыл бұрын
Insane performance considering the condition the piano (most likely) was. The way she gently put her hands on the keys in slow parts, i wish i could play so smooth.
@vivianleung5201
11 жыл бұрын
Lisitsa is always pleasant, open-mind, easy going and down to earth. She is certainly not just a great pianist but a great person too. If you are able to watch her playing the famous "18th variation of Rachmaninoff on the theme of Paganini", her touch is so smooth and musical, the style is so much different and magical.............., I am really out of words to describe it !
Appasionata. On an old piano. Somewhere a piano maker must be biting her fingers watching this entire video, waiting for the inevitable.
@WJE37FCSM
11 жыл бұрын
I could hear the piano creaking in the background "yes I can, yes I can."
@wojtek3220
11 жыл бұрын
Jedno ale wielkie słowo - BARDZO DZIĘKUJĘ
@ryanstraker7210
8 жыл бұрын
Oh my, this is so angry. This, to me, is how the Appassionata should be played.
@megamastah
3 жыл бұрын
With passion.
@sorim1967
11 жыл бұрын
I heard that what really happened is that all trains to Paris were halted because of overcrowding with people rushing to be present at the Paris train station where Valentina was giving an unexpected impromptus recital
@ondaride777
2 жыл бұрын
Piano used to be curb-side free pick-up, now it's $1M.
@zumzum217
11 жыл бұрын
Well I'm the 439th, and it is just as amazing.
@anneparagamian4365
2 жыл бұрын
J’adore cette sonate et aussi cette pianiste Dommage que le piano soit pas terrible Merci pour ce bon moment Compliment !💕
@IAmTheHound
11 жыл бұрын
Saw Valentina recently playing in Chappells in similarly close up and informal circumstances, though obviously on a much better piano (a Boesendorfer grand). I like how good she makes this one sound, though, and the fact that the audience are literally just passers-by. Plus, the Appassionata. It just doesn't get any better than that.
@HJBP0
11 жыл бұрын
LOL !!! Indeed !
@David-wj8tt
6 жыл бұрын
The professor on my animation unit at uni said that good models animated poorly look especially crap, and that poor models animated well always look great. She kind of proves this in what she is able to produce from this piano.
@ander2365
11 жыл бұрын
uuuuf yeah. a lucky one
@psilomagazine
9 жыл бұрын
Wow.. She is god..
@scottm8579
8 жыл бұрын
how does anyone do that? her hands
@bw2082
10 жыл бұрын
is the G below middle c stuck?
@gundog085
10 жыл бұрын
at 6:17 I think it doesn't. It just seems like.
@984francis
9 жыл бұрын
Looks like the top has come off, what we can see is the wood.
@lefinlay
6 жыл бұрын
It’s just the ivory veneer which has come off
@merranthompson9096
6 жыл бұрын
You are right about the G below the middle C being sick I have C key on my early 1900s piano that always gets stuck I think I am going to have to call the piano man to come fix my piano.
@diletante86
11 жыл бұрын
It's just that there are no recordings from that moments. Do you think Rubinstein lived in a bubble and he just went out to play on a stage?
@KristerRehn
10 жыл бұрын
@babysbk1
11 жыл бұрын
May i found that piano on Ebay ?? .. Maybe "price - lovest first"
@Ray0X0
9 жыл бұрын
Is there a piano in a train station??
@sinanyavuzz
11 жыл бұрын
omg :) this video is amazing. and I am the tenth person who watched this :D
@youngpaderewski3668
11 жыл бұрын
No, I don’t think that Rubinstein lived in a bubble or that he only played the piano on stage. But I do think that he would have avoided being recorded playing on a junk piano in public, unless of course he drank too much wine during a wild night of carousing.
@Arctorkovich
11 жыл бұрын
She's the Kurt Cobain of classical music :P
@fmeyer01
11 жыл бұрын
Why did she do this?
@Grayfox541
11 жыл бұрын
This proves that if you hear a bad perfomance it is not because the piano but the pianist. A good pianist can make an awful piano sound like the best piano in the world. Don't blame it on the piano, blame it on the pianist.
@boscos121
11 жыл бұрын
if the piano was so bad then it would not sound so good would it?this is not really a question
@MrMutschler1
11 жыл бұрын
In your ear.
@mjndillaha86
11 жыл бұрын
Except shes not dead and she doesnt suck.
@Denis-Orlov
3 жыл бұрын
перед Валентиной хоть дрова разложи, она все равно отыграет на них сонату безупречно!
@fnog9
10 жыл бұрын
is that piano even in tune? im surprised she didnt break it.
@crm4F240
10 жыл бұрын
LOL, after she'd finished playing all the strings seemed to be tuned
@happyface1739
8 жыл бұрын
acid trip?
@peace-now
Жыл бұрын
The G appears to e a sticking key on this piano.
@ruahhahn7553
9 жыл бұрын
How does she play like this on a crappy piano?
@shonhappy7698
8 жыл бұрын
ㅇ
@clown133819
11 жыл бұрын
Valentina is Very Beatiful, but the hair? o.0
@morphling1008
11 жыл бұрын
the piano is just old. the sound is okay. besides, it has no G...
@shonhappy7698
8 жыл бұрын
ㄹㄹ
@sorim1967
11 жыл бұрын
There is nothing degrading about playing on this piano (other than it is badly out of tune in a couple of places particularly so). The music produced is still exquisite. For the terrible state of the piano the sound produced is probably far superior to the typical salon piano for which it was written by its illustrious composer and HE would not have found this degrading because he would have put up with (and enjoyed) far worse instruments. Richter played on poor uprights in public many times.
@vassilievboris
9 жыл бұрын
Can somebody keep her (far) away from a piano, please ?
@youngpaderewski3668
11 жыл бұрын
While I admire Valentina’s virtuosity and her magnanimous spirit, somehow, I could never imagine greats like Horowitz and Rubinstein degrading themselves or their art by playing in public on such rubbish.
@lefinlay
6 жыл бұрын
I don’t know. Were they alive today, who would know. She has shown herself to be humble
@crashrr2993
6 жыл бұрын
Young Paderewski this is absolutely NOT degrading anything! She is giving an inspiring performance of music most passengers have probably never heard. That something so magnificent can be performed on something so ordinary is a testament to what dedication can can achieve. Look at it with positive eyes. 🤩
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