Schwanengesang ("Swan Song") by Schubert with English Subtitles arr.Liszt Valentina Lisitsa
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- These are the very last songs that Schubert wrote before his death at age of 31.
Few other pieces exist that would match the depth of despair, depression and hopelessness in this music. It is futile to describe what's happening in this music , what is the story... The subtitled lyrics are eloquent enough.
If you need the text in languages other than original German and English, here is a link :
www.recmusic.or...
I wish I could say "Enjoy" but this is NOT music for enjoyment but rather for catharsis. Good luck on your journey. - เพลง
There has always been a special place in my heart for Schubert's music. I had known about his long illness, but for some reason had never heard Schwanengesang until now. Valentina, your wonderful interpretation of Schubert's music, together with the lyrics, expresses the incredible depths of his physical and emotional suffering. It is the first time in my life that the music of this brilliant composer has made me weep. You are truly amazing!
Dans ce déchirant chant d'adieu,, Valentina devient littéralement Schubert, avec sa sensibilité, sa grâce et sa mélancolie. Valentina est l'interprète idéale. Pourquoi oublie t on toutes les autres interprétations après l'avoir vue? C'est le grand mystère de l'appropriation de la musique par la pianiste, et c'est tout l'art de Valentina. Merci.
How can I not enjoy your performance? I'm in awe. The first time I heard these pieces was very recently, with the new release of Harmonia Mundi's "Mein Traum," performed by Pygmalion Orchestra under Raphaël Pichon along with Stéphane Degout (baritone) and a phenomenal production (video + sound). I immediately succumbed to these masterpieces. Then, as I always do, I dug and dug more to learn the history of Schubert's Schwanengesang, and voila, I reached your TH-cam site. The big difference between both interpretations, yours and Pygmalion's, yours in particular, is your hands/piano keys and your passion was able to narrate, scream, and express the desolation and agony surrounding Schubert's last composition. Thanks.
00:02 Die Stadt, The Town
03:47 Das Fischermädchen, The Fishermaiden
06:51 Auftenhalt, My Dwelling Place
10:06 Am Meer, By the Sea
14:48 Abschied, A Farewell
19:31 In der Ferne, Afar
26:11 Ständchen, Serenade
33:08 Ihr Bild, Her Picture
36:16 Frühlingssehnsucht, Longing in Spring
38:32 Liebesbotschaft, Love's Message
41:22 Der Atlas, Atlas
44:06 Der Doppelgänger, The Shadow
49:33 Die Taubenpost, The Pigeon Post
54:41 Kriegers Ahnung, Warrior's Foreboding
thanks for this
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00:02 Die Stadt, The Town
03:47 Das Fischermädchen, The Fishermaiden
06:51 Auftenhalt, My Dwelling Place
10:06 Am Meer, By the Sea
14:48 Abschied, A Farewell
19:31 In der Ferne, Afar
26:11 Ständchen, Serenade
33:08 Ihr Bild, Her Picture
36:16 Frühlingssehnsucht, Longing in Spring
38:32 Liebesbotschaft, Love's Message
41:22 Der Atlas, Atlas
44:06 Der Doppelgänger, The Shadow
49:33 Die Taubenpost, The Pigeon Post
54:41 Kriegers Ahnung, Warrior's Foreboding
Valentina you are at the same time so humble, so simple and so brillant. That´s the definition of a genius.
Thank you very much for bringing food to my brain and joy to my soul.
I am absolutely grateful.
Sincerely, Gus.
It is so beautiful and Valentina with much délicacy get into the soul of Schubert. Merci merci for this gift.
indeed! Sounds so sincere but still feel special to listen to her interpretation
I came to Schwanengesang late- in my 70's now with failing eyesight and hearing is not the best time to hear this glorious music but one takes life as it is. I am gladdened and grateful that Val has gifted us this beautiful arrangement and interpretation which moves me very deeply. I can touch the infinite through your playing Val- thank you so much. Sakuntala Basu from India
Valentina, i just love this video. I saw you in Ecuador playing Prokofiev, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and other great composers, it was fantastic. I really wanted to tell you that I love what you do, that you inpires me, and that you are a genius of this generation. I'm fairly looking forward to see you again here.
can you get your hands on a 360 camera and put it on a position that makes the viewer feel they are sitting next you you when you play? that would be wonderful if you had a few 360 videos.(by that i mean 360 VR).
This swells my heart, so much buried, knowing someone has the courage to reveal their loss, makes me feel not alone.
Atlas, Nemesis, Warrior's Foreboding were my favorites.
Thanks for such a huge effort you've put to this Valentina.
Always appreciate your interpretations. Serenade was perfect!
This is Most Beautiful. I'' ve never experienced lyrics and music like this. I am utterly overwhelmed.ThankYou.
Thank you!!
These melodies seem to bring us into Schubert's fast fading health, there are simple elements but some seem regretful.There are some sweet messages, mixed with melancholy. I think that overall Schubert had some stoicism, and some sorrow. He doesn't seem angry, but rather bitter and weary. There is also a contrasted minor briskness at some points. Der Atlas, Atlas seems to carry Schubert's anger. Der Doppelgänger is a Requiem, lost hope, he realizes this is his last bit of living in this world, but since it resolves in a major chord, it is not entirely an unrelieved depression. I think having observed my father learn of his terminal state, that there is an element of shock and resignation, and the recognition that these are the last musical compositions he will write. Thankyou Valentina for taking the time to bring these to us so well interpreted.
mesmerizing
Today, we are celebrating th death of Debussy!
In tribute to his amazing works, listen our Debussy's playlist!
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Great musician, great pianist and impressive woman. I love she!
Agreed. Excepted the last word: "I love her!"
i love this sooooo much........?
Droga Valentina, Twoja praca jest uznana w wieczności i służy Naszego Pana. Z Bogiem.
It's so weird to listen to this, get to 44:06, and squint at the screen until I realized, "Oh right, this music and poem was used as a motif for the Persona 2 duology'. To think I didn't put two and two together until then.
You are a piano virtuoso Vlaentina Lisitsa ! Your interpretation is magic.
Olga Ilic DA! Lisitsa is from far, the BEST PIANO player!
This is amazing. I love it so much and wish I could play like you, furthermore, I salute your discipline and talent
"'Tis she has slain this heart of mine"
Full of sadness,pain,death and hope in romantic way!
Valentina: As always I love your hands, your music and you
You are the best piano player, I wish Schubert was alive to see how do you play his music.
A Técnica Pianística de Valentina revela a Beleza de sua interpretação!
Suas mãos executam um bailado lírico de perfeição!
A grandiosidade da Obra tem a grandiosidade de sua Alma!
Bravo!!!
I wish all her TH-cam recordings could be on Spotify. They are very good. She is a great pianist.
Yes me too, plenty of pieces but Rachmaninoff's first piano sonata in particular. I can't even find a single recording on spotify, let alone the best there is which is without a doubt by Valentina. I wonder if there's some reason she isn't contractually allowed to or something ? Hope not
Somehow I missed this piece. It came from a peaceful time. Everything changed since then.
The collection was named by its first publisher Tobias Haslinger, presumably wishing to present it as Schubert's final musical testament to the world. Unlike the earlier Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise, it contains settings of three poets, Ludwig Rellstab (1799-1860), Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) and Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804-1875). - quoted from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwanengesang
Thank you for calling it (correctly) a collection and not a cycle. The publisher grouped the songs by poet: the seven by Rellstab, then the six by Heine and finally the single one by Seidl. Although Liszt retained all of Schubert's original keys in his transcriptions, he drastically reordered the songs: #11, 10, 5, 12, 7, 6, 4, 9, 3, 1, 8, 13, 14, 2; he also provided a direct link between #9 (Ihr Bild) and #3 (Frühlingssehnsucht). The published edition of Schubert's voice-and-piano originals opens and closes with fairly upbeat songs - Liebesbotschaft and Die Taubenpost respectively - while Liszt bookends his "cycle" with two very dark ones, Die Stadt and Kriegers Ahnung. Thus Liszt casts a very different light on these extraordinary pieces.
We have lots of people on the stage today who can play pieces like this, and very well too. But really, you make so much out of this with the expression and color, it stops being a banal and rather boring melodrama.
You do this kind of thing better than anybody.
Thank you so much Valentina, for putting all this fantastic music on TH-cam
The book in front of her is not necessary.
*Paulo Costa*
I agree... She doesn't need it, she has a privileged memory.
I've heard her play it live without the book. My guess is that she was polishing and perfecting prior to some concert and wanted the music there if she suspected something was amiss.
@@petermetrinko607 I actually think it was for visual reasons. Makes a beautiful picture, framed by the candles :)
and?
Neither are the candelabra.
I think the piano is a Bosendorfer. Am I correct?
Bravo Lisitsa! One o clock an I'm still listening for you to play.
She often plays on a Bosendorfer, but it's hard to read the word here. The opening low notes sound like one. Artur Scnabel played a Bosendorfer, took it with him across the Atlantic!
she played only börsendorfer piano (so far as i know until now).
Thank you so much Beautiful plays & poet
This made my morning. Thanks Valentina!
@Kinjutsuu you are absolutely absolutely right!!!
Wow! I am speechless...
Same
Ojala leyeras español. Creo que en lo que me resta de vida, -Que será poco. Siempre es poco- no habré de escuchar otro pianista de tu alta calidad. Pero aún más importante, de tu enorme generosidad, ya que compartes todo con tus admiradores que conformamos ya un gran público. Felicidades por tu don y por tu esfuerzo, te han llevado a ser la más importante pianista de tu generación y en su momento, muchos asegurarán que de todos los tiempos. Gracias HERMOSA!
Messaggio d'amore
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the German (Deutsch)
Ruscello che mormori,
così argenteo e chiaro,
ti affretti verso l'amata,
così lieto e svelto?
Ah, fido ruscelletto,
sii il mio messaggero,
portale i saluti
da me che sono lontano.
Tutti i suoi fiori
coltivati nel giardino,
che con tanta grazia
porta al petto,
e le sue rose
ardenti di porpora,
ruscelletto, ravvivali
con la tua acqua fresca.
Quando lei sta slla riva,
immersa nei sogni,
e pensando a me
inchina la testa,
conforta la mia dolcezza
con sguardo amico,
dille che il suo amato
tornerà presto.
Quandol sole se ne va
nella sua luce rossastra,
culla la mia cara,
falla addormentare.
Mormora per lei
dolcemente, in pace,
sussurrado guida
i suoi sogni verso l'amore.
Мне понравилось, чуткая, проницательная игра. Спасибо.
48:12 - The German text actually says "so many a night" not "on summer nights".
Thanks so much for this work, Valentina
Your Der Atlas performance is fantastic
I absolutely love everything you play - the color, the feeling, the superb technique. I have heard it all. I would like to hear you play Albeniz. Recently your hands appear to float over the keyboard. Is your technique changing?
Expressivo fantastico
Валюша,
Слушаю, смотрю, и вспоминаю строки Анчарова:
"То что я нажил, гений прожил, и нас уровнял орган."
Удивительно музыкальное, драматическое исполнение.
Спасибоо Вам за этот дар.
Alexander Soifer
Colorado Springs, USA
SUPER
the score has always been on the same page . you have a prodigious memory , it really was a very human experience to hear this piece and even more played from someone like you. I really admire all your work , and how you can convey every aspect of what you may feel while playing . I hope to have the honor of seeing you again in medellin .
Dear Valentina,
I bet I am your biggest fan here in Brazil, and I hope to watch you playing some day!!!
It's always a big joy when I am told you just uploaded a video. Words aren't enough to describe the feelings your videos bring. And this one is a pearl, poetry and music! All us musicians should put Arts together as they were, so close, some time ago. I am happy to notice you are one of those special artists, complete, who are interested in Arts, not only in playing. Bravo!!!
you are great !!
32' 35" this video: Belíssimo!! Serra Sede - ES - Brazil in 2023.05.13
Schön.
wow
It's almost she's caressing the piano.
She literally is, that's how you get a softer/singing tone from the keys!
Valentina Lisitsa
Love it! Love it!! LOVE IT!!!
Grammaticlassical - No. 3.14
by both T. Hanks You-ver, Y. Much
(Phun puns for everyone)
Think...you very much...
Thank Yule! very much!
Thank you. Ver much?
Thank you very Mach.
Valentina,
Thank you very much :)
Valentina,
You are the best of the best and have earned it...
Fin
Ok, I respect your opinion.
Good to see the poems with the music, provides another dimension
Beautiful. u made my day!
Спасибо! Низкий поклон! С Рождеством Христовым Вас, дорогая Валентина! Пусть Ваш Ангел-хранитель всегда будет рядом с Вами!
Je lis l'avalanche de commentaires dithyrambiques (bien mérités pour V Lisitsa)et pense que ce serait beaucoup plus beau avec les SEULES notes DE SCHUBERT, qui, lui,écrit toutes celles qu'il faut, et pas une DE TROP. Quand j'entends des Lieder de Winterreise, ou des Heine-Lieder..."arrangés" pour "épater la galerie" (ce que Liszt aimait beaucoup,et Schubert pas du tout) j'essaie d'imaginer, par exemple, "When I am laid in earth [.....] remember me, but,ah! forget my fate ..." (Lamento de Didon) "arrangé" ainsi...Autant "arranger"La Joconde avec des ajouts"peinturluresques".
I paint as you play ....live....
What a great study of this cycle for those to whom the German is a barrier!
Learn German :) actually don't it's annoying
I spent a year and a half in college trying!
Tobias Eisele hahaha - I dropped German as a school subject, French requires a lower niveau for our exams, LOL. I can read German fairly well anyways
Like an invisible magnetic force, Schubert's music always attracts me, especially his "Standchen" -- so hauntingly beautiful. I often play it in the evenings before bedtime. Valentina's interpretation and expression is spot-on IMO, and her playing is mesmerizing. Thank you for sharing!
Serenade @ 26:25
Wonderful!! Thank you!!
"Few other pieces exist that would match the depth of despair, depression and hopelessness in this music."
Which pieces if I may ask??
Браво! Восхитительная Валентина!
Спасибо огромное!
___
Нет, я не сойду с ума от "рацьоналисма". Музыка и Вы, Вы и Музыка.
No Apple Music? I think it’s be the only full Schubert/Liszt schwanengesang version on there!
Tomorrow evening I’ll listen to this again. Has been a while. Just sit and take it in.
Always intense. I really take it in.
To the point the beauty hurts.
2:20 такое ощущение, что будто звучал не рояль, а гигантский барабан
Valentina you are the most wonderful pianist i have ever heard...with you playing, may Schubert rest in peace...
Though Schubert was ill off and on for the last 6 years of his life, he also enjoyed periods of good health, traveled, gave a concert of his works, etc. And evidence suggests the last song he ever wrote is the sweet and fairly cheerful "Die Taubenpost".
For all the sadness and disappointment in his life, Schubert also experienced a lot of joy from music, nature and his friends. At the time of his death, he'd started counterpoint lessons and was looking forward to more composing.
she played Für Elise as an encore and that is one overly famous, repetitive and overused piece but what's amazing is that she gave it a fresh new twist to something that has been played over and over, so I don't see why she couldn't give it a try with a very simple piece and see what happens...
Hauntingly beautiful - wondering also year & Make of piano + location ?
dios mío, Valentina, cómo puedes ser tan hermosa?
this is an amazing amazing women (i'm not sure she is human - she may be a robot, but a lovely one!)
Magnifique interprétation ! Merci beaucoup à cette artiste.
i think it would be a great song to play, but maybe her skills would be ''wasted'' in that song, I mean, she is one of the few people who can play classics the way she does it, and i would rather listen to this than some younger songs. Try to see it my way, if she start doing that kind of songs (again they are beautiful I love Competine) she could atract the wrong side of youtube and some people could ask her to play rudolph or merry christmas in a couple of mounts. It would be an insult.
I'm sorry, but I really don't agree. It's always a good idea to play more contemporary pieces (which she does), but not something like you suggested. "Comptine d'un autre ete : L'apres midi" is overplayed, very easy, and--in my opinion--boring to play and to hear. It's nice, but repetitive and short. If you want to listen to that, watch the movie. But there are infinitely more interesting contemporary pieces that aren't as famous but many, many times more beautiful.
ピアノの弾き方も乱暴な感じがするのは私だけでしょうか
Um that's Liszt's version of the Swan Song. Duh Valentina!
I wouldn’t put such depressing lyrics on such a beautiful song
As a singer (who also adore Schubert as much), I reckon that I'd prefer this record over any other modern performances...
The transcription is ingenious.
Schwanengesang...coletanea de lieders miseraveis!!!!! velho Schubert vc é o melhor!!!
Fantastic!
26:26 love
That sheet music in front of her thinking "Am I a joke to you?"
Few views for that splendid artist, the Gifted LISITSA! Ständchen Serenade!!! Valentina (My Favorite Name) Forever!
Toujours le même émerveillement avec Valentina, que ce soit avec Mozart Liszt Rachmaninoff.... Le toucher unique la sensibilité
Bonjour Valentina
Nous avons écouté tout un concert et plusieurs de vos différentes interprétations sur radio classique ce soir du 30 septembre 2015.
Nous avons été émerveillés par votre talent, votre virtuosité et votre originalité.
Nous organisons des concerts classiques à Saint-tropez et nous aimerions beaucoup vous recevoir en récital. Si cela vous intéresse, quelles seraient vos disponibilités ?
Pour nous contacter voici une adresse mail : haryjoce@hotmail.fr
En espérant avoir une réponse positive de votre part,
Bien cordialement
Joce
good job!! you played beautifully!! I love it!!!!
Reposting........
Valentina..
Simply delightful watching you play/dance with eyes angelically closed as the Schwanengesang flows off your fingers as if from a celestial music fountain. I've expressed this sentiment in other venues before....Are you the rebirth of Lubka Kolessa? Just wondering......
Thank you Valentina. Merci avec mon tout coeur. Moi, I'm not afraid, I'm prepared to fun things up until I say goodbye with the last farewell.
Valentina, thank you very much for sharing this with us.
Up to now you've made 318 people happy, tipping a tear, holding their breath etc.
Playing music is touching people: you have the right touch, wether you play Liszt, Beethoven, Rachmaninov or Schubert, you know how to express them all, and that's your gift.
Thanks for adding the subtitles. :) I've listened to this cycle many times in its original form, and although I've read a little bit of the poetry behind some of them, this makes it a lot easier, as usually the poor translations I find don't really fit well with the original German songs - but this seems to work well. :) Thanks Val!
I really wonder if V's hands are the most beautiful and dextrous ever in "human piano history" lol ～looking forward to your next performance in Taiwan XD
:'( speechless. Bravissimo!