Chopin Berceuse Op 57 D Flat Major
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Another little extra piece ( LOL) from Hannover Chopin Etudes recording sessions. This one was the very last recorded and we had barely 5 minutes before we had to get out of the hall :-)
It's fascinating that Chopin wrote such a piece in his era.. which is truly years (maybe a whole century) ahead of its time - the repeating left hand chords, the complex chord voicing and harmonic changes he reaches with his right, the modern dreamy mood, the clear structure - while still making it come off like an "on-the-spot" improvisation.. Pieces like Gymnopédie No. 1 by Satie and Bill Evans' Peace Piece are basically just a continuation of what Chopin did here. His ability to predict such future "trends" is what makes him a giant among all composers, a true authentic genius, and a huge influence over the next centuries of music.
As it's a lullaby I'm inclined to think the repeating bass notes are inspired by a nursery rhyme, or perhaps a child's music box which he may have come across when he wrote the piece in a friends home in 1844. Being a tune 'to be played to a sleepy child' the repeating bass obviously makes perfect sense as it's enveloping and soothing and not too stimulating. The tempo and rhythm here though which is faster than other examples really does give a music box feel although it also invokes a swinging cradle. The right hand is sublime, like splashes onto a still pool, but the tempo rises a bit too much for me in the middle, the cradle will be off it's hinges at this rate and the baby rudely awoken. I don't know a lot of Chopin's music but agree this is so Satie, Gnossiennes were only 40 years later but still Chopin clearly led the way.
asi es la musica de Chopin
I see much thought - possibly a good part of your lifetime - can be found in and behind your comment here. I'm listening. Thank you for pulling these words together 0:14 . A joy.
Absolutely exquisite pianist. She is a master at breathing life from a repetitive left-hand as I believe was Chopin's intention. This is no sleep aid for insomniacs! It's a tonic to quiet a restless soul.
Totally agree.
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She’s bad at playing
@@ryuzakil1751 Says somebody with an anime pfp
Bruh I play the piano and what does my profile pic have to do with piano lmao moron
It's brilliance in bloom, fingers in fluorescence!
My cat loves this song. I turn it on and I can hear him sprinting upstairs to hear it! 😸
+Lily Adams that's so cute omg
I love your cat.
I used to have a dog that reacted the same way to songs by Gordon Lightfoot! :^)
It's a lullaby!
PurrrrrMeow!!!
I read that Chopin said something like "after playing so many notes for so long that simplicity is where beautiful music lies or something to that effect. After I read I thought, Wow! Chopin, whose music could be so technically challenging and complex, would say that, but i can see and hear that concept in some of his work. I think some pieces are so choked with all the technique and embellishments that the main idea, melody, is crying out to be heard.
danny taylor the quote you’re looking for is ‘Simplicity if the highest goal, achievable only when you have overcome all difficulties. It is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art’
chopin is always as simple as possible in the way he conveys any given emotion. Pure confidence with no arrogance in sight. He simply doesnt care if you think he is a good composer, he'll fill your ears and mind with childlike wonder regardless. thats my take atleast!
@@e.hutchence-composer8203 Thank you for the inspritaion and muse brother, fro another mother..
@@dincerekin This is fuckin' fantastic comment. Right to the point. Pianist writing from here. And proud polish citizen - Chopin was a Pole, not French. We had many great warriors and battles during all these years, we had 123 years without been on a map - still our people defend and reclaimend this land. The same during world war 2.
But still, at a musician at heart, chopin is the perfect one, and Kopernik for heliocentric theory ;) But we had many more.
@@tomaszczapiewski3359 His father was French, but Frederic considered himself Polish.
This woman has such agile fingers and seeing her get immersed in the notes is simply a treat to watch.
2:03 This part which starts in here sounds like played on two pianos. Such a beautiful composition and performance.
I think this is about how the mind starts to wander as you're falling asleep. Wonderful pianist. God bless Chopin.
I read Chopin composed this lullaby for a baby (friend or relative) that he loved, the baby brought him joy!
The gates of Heaven have been opened and it will be with difficulty that i return to earth after hearing this beautiful piece.
This is just wonderful - I love this performance.
It is like opening a window and suddenly you realize that spring has come, the light has changed, everything is fresh and wonderful, crystal clear.
This is a good description.
Very apt description.
I'm just so glad that there are people who can play like this.
PEOPLE read the description she had less than 5 minutes! Incredible lyricism, control, touch, tone! You are truly an inspiration!
The left hand is the trunk. The right hand, the leaves that swirl in millions ways about the wind. So inspired. Magic. ❤❤❤
Beautiful description! So perfect. 😍
Excellent performance. This is one of the most gorgeous compositions Chopin ever wrote.
My absolute favourite piece of music. I think Chopin wrote dances for fingers and watching this performer confirms exactly that. I simply melt when I hear this piece of music - especially played as beautifully as this. Bravo!
I feel the left hand is rocking the cradle and the right hand represents the contented dreams of the infant child. Exquisite,
Watching her play is like being in a living dream.
Chopin is the single greatest composer of piano music.. its staggeringly beautiful and complex and brings so much detailed story telling to his music.. its just splendid and I am a huge fan of yours Valentina. May you continue sharing the gift with the world and inspiring us so very much!
Her hands slither and slide over the keys like they are not there and the sound is flawless. What a phenomenally gifted pianist!
i’m a 17 year old aspiring pianist, you inspire me so much! i love chopin’s pieces more than anything, i’m currently trying to learnt this one. you’re an amazing and beautiful performer :)
“Chopin is the greatest.” That’s what I say every time I hear his music.
One of the best and greatest, that’s why I love learning to play his work and same with his contemporaries.
She makes this look easy and I know it's absolutely not. One of my three favorite pieces, along with Nocturne in E flat and Raindrop.
Raindrop - drop top - smoking on cookie in the hot box ?
she has a fantastic technique! very professional
She has got incredible intonation and pure softness under her fingers. Her music is totally mesmerizing!
The fluidity of her playing really attracts me. She makes the piano keys look like their made of a silky cloud or something. Quite nice
She just glides over the keys, you have to be super-talented to do that.
How do you know?
It’s technique
ling ling
Well, I am 15 and i also play this song :)
@@blubbblubb9741 dude holy crap you're that old? i played this song coming out of my mother's womb
For those of you wondering, you pronounce "Berceuse" like "Bear Seuss." just looked it up haha
more like Bear Sirs
\bɛʁ.søz\
Oh dang I thought it was “ver Seuss”
Ber like the e of red and Ceuse like Sseuze
This has got to be one of the all time greatest pieces of music every written
I was hesitant when I saw the comments regarding the speed...but it's Valentina...she never disappoints. Incredible technical mastery. I love this rendition. It's fresh, it's vital. I love its fadings to slow nothingness. Mastery. Wow.
Chopin adored Pauline Viardot's daughter Louise that stayed with them at Nohant summer of 1843. Perhaps she inspired this cradle song.
I just started learning to play this song. Being able to play this would bring me more joy then I could put into words.
I can't ever imagine getting bored by this, its the most beautiful piece of music and Valentina plays it so well.....it sends a shiver down my spine every time I hear it (which I make sure is quite often)
This song gives me a weird deja vu feeling. I'll try to explain it in the best way I can. The beginning of the song feels so sad yet happy, it's like reassuring you that even the saddest times will end. And then as the song progresses, the tune starts getting drowned by the rapid notes, trying to make your worries swivel away... At the end of the song, it starts becoming more and more soothing, retaining the first tune in the beginning of the song. Overall, it's a really calm and nostalgic song.
Like babies breathing and dreaming in their sleep
Just when I thought Erik Satie's works would be great for setting my nights up for bedtime, I chanced upon this piece and it had overturned my expectations for the perfect bedtime accompaniment. Erik's music has this subtly unsettling, restless and almost dark vibe to his sparse compositions, but this lullaby composed by Chopin just disarms you completely and compels you to float away and along with its gliding notes.
Increrible!! What a performance. This piece makes me feel ways i cant describe. So much elegance and emotion
Taehyung love this piece. So beautiful I'm mesmerized 😍
This piece is a miracle - not just for its time. And so is her playing of it.
hello Valentina Lisitsa. thanks for shaking off my veil of ignorance, and showing me a bit of the immense beauty that is possible in this world. bravo!
this song is the breath of fresh air you take in at dusk.
I know I might sound ridiculous, but this piece is a misnomer. It isn't a lullaby. It should be played at this speed. Simply exquisite at this speed. I can't sum up its magic but I don't think I'll ever understand a person's capacity to be able to fall asleep (wtf) to this piece. It makes you want to dream more but live to fulfil them at the same time.
I've just started learning piano as a self study a month ago, so I am playing this simplified piece in G Minor and was proud of myself that I put two hands together with the relatively good speed, and then I saw Valentina playing it in original D-flat Major!!! So inspiriting and unreachable at the same time! She is just amazing!
Waltz in A minor is a great piece for early piano. For me, a great intro to playing Chopin.
After searching for some other performances of this wonderful masterpiece I was surprised that most of them last about 4’45 minutes or more, what is much slower than this version. At first I thought Valentina takes it too fast, but after a couple of concentrated hearings I’ve come to the conclusion that this is a very appropriate timing, she discloses all the hues and nuances of the work with great deepness and intensity. After all, a berceuse needs to evoke clearly the movement of the cradle, that soft swing that transport us to a reverie atmosphere.
I’d dare to say some other players induce the slumber through monotony and boredom, while this superb artist brings it to us through a pure sense of tender pleasure and satisfaction. Bravo, Valentina!
@@ValentinaLisitsaQOR Thank you for your answer. I've listened Hofmann's version and I'm glad you didn't go so far in speed. He has personality and command, but I think that his playing lacks the tenderness we expect in a cradle song.
I am not sure that I am the only one that feel the sentiment of this piece and deep inside me feel like crying as I could perceive the loneliness inside the heart of this polish composer. The portrayal of the melody is really of a bit of bitterness inside as many know as melancholia.
To those who say much too fast, I would point to Rosenthal's recording which comes in at 3:56 or so. Rosenthal studied with Mikuli, who was a pupil of Chopin's, and also with Liszt (who knew Chopin's playing style intimately as the two had been friends at one point). Koczalski, another Mikuli pupil, also comes in at around the same tempo, at 4:12. One has to believe that, given the similarity in their speeds, this must be in the right ballpark and is almost certainly handed down from Chopin himself. Too often Chopin is played too slowly, which may enhance the audibility of the felicities in his scoring, but is probably not the way the composer himself played.
Intense melancholy inducing piece played with great skill and sensitivity.
i don't know it is still nice to have a female pianist in this mans world today I am jealous may be I will sit down again and try playing again
That's one of those pieces i cry listening to.
Me as well
I played this at his grave when I was lucky enough to have the chance to go there❤️
One of my favorite Chopin pieces and she does it justice. Amazing pianist.
So profoundly enchanting and played by a lovely enchantress.
Look how raised her wonderful fingers are, and how she caresses the keys like nobody else!
I simply dream off, floating on these waves of fluid music, played with so much attention and care.
I listen to this every single night. I have PTSD and it is always hard to sleep, but this calms me. and I will only listen to Valentina's version. thank you for playing me to sleep and making the passage into my dreams feel safe
Absolutely breathtaking... I will never get tired of listening to her play this Berceuse. It is so delicate, so light, and yet so technically demanding... (at least, for us mere mortals!).
That was so beautiful! Glad you were able to include it. 👏🎹
Such a wonderful use of counter rhythm.....left hand keeping a moderate metronomic pace as a flurry of sparks of embers give way to fast melodic and fiery emissions in the right hand passages.
To me, Lisitsa is the Itzhak Perlman of pianists -- which is to say that she is the best combination of getting the notes right and also playing with feeling. Almost like a feather floating across the keys. A joy to listen to.
Wow 😮 it’s as if a beautiful mermaid is playing this. Masterful
This is a super rich and delicate piece. It's as I consider a ' twice ' baked nocturne dipped in smooth, velvety pianissimo passage work
The ending of this piece is indescribably beautiful... but I’ll try anyways - the music gently winds down, until the last two chords are nothing more than a whisper. The long pause before the very last note makes me catch my breath, but also makes the last chord all the more beautiful. It brings tears to my eyes and a pit in my stomach.
This is exquisite. Thank you 🎶 🇵🇱
taehyung loves this ^^
Thank you só much!❤
Quite simply the most beautiful piece of music ever written and wonderfully played
@ValentinaLisitsa Having your idols answering all your questions and giving you feedback on your life decision is such a privilege, thank you so much for being this audience friendly!
Miss Valentina Lisitsa!
A Queen.
A DIVA.
MAGNIFICENT.
The power this woman possesses is staggering.
You remember me this wonderful young cat I meet today. It was so playful and tender always looking for more caress and more game. A wonderful time, a musical time very much like a berceuse. Thanks!
Oh my gosh...how to make Chopin look easy. 25 years and I will never play like you. Utterly inspiring, Thank you. Hannah, x
Sooooooo good! She makes it look so easy, her hands float across the keys. Master level stuff.
Idk why the camera ever left her hands - it was mesmerizing and beautiful. Why show us the piano and profile? 😮 Anyway- super talented and incredible to watch!!
It is beautiful to see her fingers in the black of the piano.
Lovely!
My very favorite piece of Chopin's.
It's absolutely ethereal.
Wow! I'm hooked to this pianist.
I loved her.
Parece que los que se quejan de too fast, no leyeron tu explicación del mínimo tiempo restante. Gracias Valentina!!! Sigues siendo LO MÁXIMO!
i read a really sad story..your music makes me alive...thanks Valentina!!!!!!
in my eyes with every song shez plays wether beethoven on chopin she brings so much emotion out with in every piece she piece,
valentina you brought a tear to my eye, you are the best xxx thank you for sharing ur talent with the world
1'47" wow! It just glitters! What a lovely performance and SOUND. This is one of the lesser known Chopin pieces, but undeservedly. I think it is just gorgeous in it's 'simplicity' and elegant virtuosity. She makes it sound do darned easy!! NOT FAIR!
Thank you, Valentina. Your performance of this piece is at once serene and stirring. Absolutely captivating and impossible to stop watching. I find new things I love about it each time I listen to it.
Oh my goodness, this is absolutely heavenly. No wonder Chopin was voted Top Composer by Telephone Poll on ABCFM Classical Radio Perth on 97.7fm some years ago. He does play around up and down with the chromatic scale. Brilliant!
My eyes became full of tears watching this awesome Chopin interpretation. What a feeling, what a technique... Get this "like" for you and this "subscribe". You're an inspiration.
You've surpassed technique and theory, and create beauty each time you sit down at the piano. Please come back to NYC and play Chopin for us!
You know your music history! I love it how knowledgeable you are of the pieces you play, how you take the time to explain it's history to us, and what they were called before it was changed to something else.
I think it's funny how pple wine and cry about how fast you play and little do they know that is exactly how you ought to do it.....I enjoy watching how fast but smooth your hands "go". haha...thank you!
I enjoy this immensely. Have created a playlist called Berceuse: >Valentina playing Chopin is first; then >Faure's Berceuse for violin & piano; >Satie's Nocturnes 1-6; >Faure's Pavanne w/ paintings by Monet; >Valentina playing Schubert's Impromptu op. 142 no. 3; >Domingo, Netrebko, & Villazon in Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Herz; >Saint Saens' Mon Coeur with Verrett & Vickers; >same aria with Gorr & Vickers; >Satie's Gnossiennes 1-6; last is >Saint Saens' The Swan.
My fav piece of Chopin's...and I love her touch too. Yes, I would also love to hear her play it when she is not having to rush to leave a hall heheh :)
I am always mesmerized watching your beautiful hands on the keyboard! So much like dancing ballerinas.
My favorite composer and favorite pianist, even when she isn't wearing shoes ;)
worldwidestuck who needs shoes anyway?
A beautiful piece played by a big titan of the piano, thank you so much☺
This is beautiful. It brings me out in goosebumps :)
I love how she does it. It's so Valentina and Chopin; two masters blended together in perfect musical bliss and harmony.
Mind-blowingly beautiful. I really like this fast version, it is so different to the equal beautiful slower version could almost be a different piece. I could be gliding over the French countryside on a spring day with this version.
i think it's maybe a little bit too fast but her technique is stunning. wish i could play it like this
I don't have a favorite Chopin piece, but for me this is at the top of any list I could imagine. To me it is a very under appreciated piece.
Majestic and seemingly effortless performance
she reminds me of horowitz, she hardly looks like she’s touching the keys, what a gorgeous delicate sound.
This is just one of the most beautiful peices of music played absolutely beautifully, thankyou for sharing it with us
I love you because of this. I personally believe this piece sounds ten times better when played at the speed in which you play it here. You are truly an inspiration to me.
One of my favourite pieces and beautifully played
beautiful! I have heard slower versions of that lullaby, but this particular is just about right tempo to me!!!
My god Chopin was incredible.
Even if it is played faster than usual, it still sounds super calm and relaxed! Excellent playing!
She plays it the same tempo as Sapellnikov, a student of Sophie Menter, who was a student of Liszt. Very similar to Michelangeli and Rubenstein also. I like her tempo.
@@mntervuren3753agree😊😊
Wow, you play this so beautifully. It was the song my music teacher analyzed and taught us in college at Swarthmore.