I love this sort of "simple" piano music. I search You Tube for beginners playing their simple exercises. There is an honesty about these works that I find refreshing. At age 71, I have long ago got over that idea that "easy to play" is the same as "not worth listening to". I can remember when, many years ago, even Haydn's mature piano sonatas were rarely played, because they were too simple and too tuneful.And Scott Joplin was known only to a few dedicated folks.

@harryandruschak2843

8 жыл бұрын

+ValentinaLisitsa If I may...and if you object I will delete this comment... Another You Tube channel is PSearPianist, who uploads all the salon/parlor music of the 19th and early 20th century that is also overlooked because it was marketed to "amateurs". And yet the wonderful gems he has uncovered makes you wonder why. Well, mostly because the amateur home piano players are a dead market, that's why.

When I was 4 years old, my best talents were running around and laughing wildly. You Valentina, are amazing!

Valentina Lisitsa, Do your childhood pieces bring childhood's peace ? Does time slip, warp and distort when you play ? Do young little hands reappear on the keys ? Can you remember when the sun took those hands outside to feel the wet sand ? A touch, a smell, a gentle note floats through a piece of white lace protecting the piano. Don't dare look up, you may discover .... you're all grown up. Valentina, beautiful playing and thanks for letting us visit. ...and then.. oh wait.... what for dinner ? where's my son ? ..when's my next show ? .....what time is it ? I Gotta Go !

After listening to the SICK DOLL I wanted to take my daughter's Barbie to the Hospital. Thanks so much for posting a recording of pieces that the unwashed masses are trying to play in their dens with no audience. Your Liszt and Rachmaninoff virtuoso pieces are fabulous but these little gems are also very good. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Such incredible technique, softness, fluidity, expression, should received 10 000 likes from every listeners :))))) -

This is the most beautiful version I have heard. It's divine.

@rufinadorosariorosario1285

3 жыл бұрын

Gostei muito desse concerto

@JoeLinux2000

2 жыл бұрын

She makes master works out of each of these little morceaux.

An absolutely magnificent performance. Thank you for sharing your musical genius with me.

These are beautiful! Thank you for introducing these - I have several young students that will begin playing these! What a tremendous gift!

Wow. Thank you for providing this, it's so inspirational to hear pieces manageable for pianists across a wide range played so expressively. Gives the pieces renewed life and interest and those learning them a level of musicality to aspire to. They are very musically rich pieces but too often are heard raced through in demonstrations lacking this kind of interpretive depth, so these performances shared for all are very valuable.

Thank you for this video - it is emotional for me, a return to my childhood, remembering my father playing this album and my mum telling me stories she invented about each of the music pieces :o) I hear your playing often on the Classic Praha radio, all kinds of repertoire including soundtracks, thank you for your art!

I'm so happy to find this piece performed by Valentina! I think Tchaikovsky's piano music has been underrated by the public, and it takes a world class pianist like Valentina to help Tchaikovsky back in place again. Thank you, Valentina!

@JoeLinux2000

2 жыл бұрын

Her performance of these stands head and shoulders above most.

You are amazing! To hear YOU playing those pieces is a privilege to all of US. Thank you for your music and luminate spirit.

While i was listening to your playing, i had a huge smile on my face and i forgot about all my worries, so thank you!!

Delightful. Thanks for giving all the music you do. It is hard to imagine life without V L.

I've never heard you before today, and I thank God at this very moment that I have been given this gift. I have my son to thank for sharing on of your videos on Facebook. WOW! Thank YOU Valentina!

You are so inspiring thank you for sharing for wonderful art and emotions.

L'eleganza, il rispetto per l'opera... davvero sublime! Grazie

Wonderful, amazing!!! Thank you very much! And very helpful - my daughter is just started learning this album now - you are her big idol, she admires you a lot!

Beautifully played! I love this album so much, it's a pleasure to play and to listen to. Thank you so much for revisiting these precious pieces, Valentina! Greetings from Germany - hope to see you in concert one day :)

What lovely pieces! Again, you open new world for me--unknown (to me) pieces and just played with such depth and intelligence. Not to mention, fun!

What lovely little pieces, how much do I owe you Val, for introducing new music to my heart and soul. :)

Valentina, thanks so much for the most wonderful gift of hearing you perform pieces that we mere mortals can play :-). I have my copy of the Album for the Young with all the time marks of the little jewels that you have given us to enjoy. I like not only hearing your fantastic performance but also observing the great technique that you use to make the piano sound like a fountain of dreams!

Thank you, Valentina; what an inspiration you are! Happy Holidays!

It's so exciting to see you playing pieces that I'm learning now!

love you and your work, always a inspiration !

It is always a pleasure to hear a living legend give an exquisite rendition such as here.

Beautifully recorded...a real gem. Thank you!

I just say, it's impossible to listen to this version without some tears coming to one's eye.

When I studied a bit of harmony from Piston's manual I bumped into many examples from these ops for young piano students, from Schumann and Tchaikovsky. Very delicate and poetic, even the title.

Another beautiful performance - Bravo!

you are amaizing Valentina!!! love your music

I've heard you in Zwolle, the Netherlands. I was with my daughter and we met after the recital. You are amazing, one of the best pianists of the world!!

Veri nice, Valentina, thanks. A beautiful memory of your first recital, but...¡¡four years!!¡realy wou was a prodigious girl! ¡Congratulations! And merry Christmas for you and your family.

Always a pleasure hearing you play! Please visit Greece so we can enjoy your amazing playing!

Beautiful performance, as always! I especially loved the songs themed on different cultures (Italian Song, Old French Song, Russian Song, German Song, etc.); I felt like I was traveling through Europe without leaving my kitchen table!

Восхитительное исполнение! Блестяще! Спасибо!

thx for recording and uploading this! its so inspiring 4 me :-)

I’m learning the Waltz piece. I like to imagine beautiful people under the chandelier waltzing to it 😊 Thank you!

Your performance is absolutely exquisite. Extraordinarily impressive.

My favorite is Morning Prayer (Утренняя молитва), I've even managed to learn it... some work to do on it though before playing it correctly... I love learning these pieces because they contain all the basics needed on the piano... Thanks again for your master recording :)

I have never been in love with a pianist ... until I discovered you. I have admired many but love only you.

I love how you keep playing repetoire that I'm either already working on or teaching to my students. I just aspire to have coffee with you and just talk music.

Beautiful playing. I also played some of these numbers when I started learning playing piano. As usual with Tchaikovsky they are very memorable :)

Good Lord it has been a long time since I heard someone mention Hanon and Burgmuller! My lessons too included those "masterpieces". Add a bit of Czerny and Khulau a bit later.... Brings back some fond (and a few tedious) moments at the keyboard under the watchful eye of my teacher/mother , and others. Never heard these though - and Tchaikovsky has always been my favorite composer. Will have to get these, just to see if my 81 year-old fingers are up to it.... Methinks they might be...Thank you for the post. BTW, an old Native American once said, "Life is like the breath of a buffalo on a cold winter's morn'. It is the shadow, that races across the prairie and loses itself in the sunset." It is fleeting dear, don't spend the precious minutes of life dwelling on others who make ridiculous and obtrusive remarks. Ignore them, and go on about enjoying the minutes of the life you live, and the people who enjoy you. There are many of those people - too few of those minutes....

I can't imagine a 4yr old playing this. Dear Valentina you are so talented. I've been listening to great pianists for over 60 years and had the good fortune to meet a lot of them. I rank you as the best.

It's so awesome of you to play and record simpler pieces for all of us beginners. This is where all of the inspiration begins!! Thank you so much Valentina!!!! Some day soon, I hope you will visit Sonoma County and play at the Green Music Center.

@JoeLinux2000

2 жыл бұрын

Every aspiring pianist would do well to try to copy her style as closely as is individually possible.

+ValentinaLisitsa: can't stop listening and saying: so fantastic, you are a gift for this world!

Valentina it is always an unbelievable pleasure to listen you again and again. Please come back to Germany.

Really appreciate this performance. I was forced into piano lessons by my mother as a young person, Children's Album was one of the few enjoyable moments in the ordeal which I can still appreciate.

I took the sheet music for this set out of the Free Library of Philadelphia as a boy and played through all the pieces many times, but then had totally forgotten about them until I heard this recording (a half century or so later). Thanks for such a beautiful video!

Want to share this with Twitter. Hope it's O.K. because they will appreciate it so much. This is so beautiful and mentally soothing as well as energising. I don't know how that works, but it does. My heart is just about to burst!

Ура новое видео!!! Валентина спасибо вам огромное. Как всегда великолепное и душевное исполнение.

I took the sheet music for this set out of the Free Library of Philadelphia as a boy and played through them all many times, but had totally forgotten about them till I listened to this recording (a half century or so later). Thanks for such a beautiful video.

Wow god bless your soul. In love with your piano skills.

Q.Q Valentina you make me cry a lot but in a good way, no matter what you play I'm always inspired and occasionally profoundly moved.

valentina, stop worrying about dislikes. all human being having a good pair of ears knows how incredible you are at the piano. Keep it coming!

Valentina please come to Canada again. Many of us are ashamed of the TSO. We want to support you and free expression of art everywhere.

Que hermoso! Eres increible. Me gusta como tocas.

Love your interpretations. Thanks

When I look her hands I study the piano!!! I learn the piano, only by this...wonderful...

So a beautifully performed. :-)

Thank you , Valentina.

valentina, I can't help but feel like inviting you to Bulgaria every time you upload. i long to see you! you made me fall in love with classical music!

@j.dean7767

8 жыл бұрын

+ValentinaLisitsa See you soon then!

I am fascinated by your "finger-ballet", for example, look at 5;-5;19-. In my childhood I have had a "Petrof"piano, and I have started studying the piano at 6. But I become a visual artist from some reason. My verry true ideal was-is, the MUSIC. I have a "Yamaha-P-45". Music is my medicin, piano pieces especially, played by Valentina Lisitza. God blesse You, Valentina!

Hi Valentina, I am big fan from Croatia and amazing thing happened last weekend. Just as I was practicing Sweet dream there you were posting it on youtube. So, in the same time we played the same musical piece on different part of the world !!! Isn't that magic !!! I am planning to visit your concert in Vienna on March 7th 2016, if I manage to buy the tickets :) Anyway, I wish you all the best in 2016 !!! Yours friendly, Nina from Croatia

Valentina, I used to absolutely abhor classical music and even more hate when my parents forced me to sit down and practice. So, my mother took me and she made me listen to you playing Rachmaninoff in g minor, and I felt inspired to play again. Now, I come back many years later onto your channel to thank you for being such an inspiration to the younger, foolish me.

eres la mejor pianista del mundo, ¡amo tus videos! you are the best pianist of the world, y love your videos!

Valentina, your music is so perfect

Bravo, je vous adore. C'est d' une beauté...

you play beautifully. following along with the music in hand. an adult, i plan to return some of piano i have forgotten. thank you.

+ValentinaLisitsa: thanks a lot for playing and publishing this great compilation! Would be wonderful if you could do this for also other composers! I don't care at all if this are "children pieces" Music isn't a sport and whoever correlates the beauty of music only to the complexity fools him/her self completely. Hear pop (ular) music: like this its all about the melody, mood and perhaps the message an nothing else. Besides of geeks, I also never heard some one saying oh this pop music is great because of complexity.. - Get with the feet on the ground folks -

I like your performance of these,Take no notice of negatives. Had thsi myself only too often

Wow! I love this video!

Saw Valentina at a local grocery store yesterday...what a pleasant surprise..so good to see once again......come back soon.....emmy lou sorum

Generally the "Children's Corner" of piano music is the most intimate and grown-up!

Amazing! Un saluto dall'Italia Greetings from Italy!!😊

When I was 4, my parents were debating whether to get rid of the piano or get me lessons. I was continually banging on it. LOL. Fortunately, I got lessons. :) Love your music, Valentina. I'm in Austin, TX. If you ever get down south in the US, sure would love to hear you play here.

How can such simple music convey such depth of feeling? The children's album describes a great arc, from the awakening morning prayer to the tolling of church bells, perhaps at the end of life. The last piece, In Church, is closely related to Tchaikovsky's hymn of the cherubim from his Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, another sublime and awesome work. It also anticipates the end of the sixth symphony, The Pathetique. The pieces in between cover aspects of life seen through the eyes of a child, from European adventures to the imagined life of toys.

Valentina I'm your big fan! :D''' Lol and for me you're unique! The true! big love u! ♡

@000km

8 жыл бұрын

+ValentinaLisitsa Forever my Dear Valentina! ;)

Enchanting!

You really played all this at age 4? Amazing to know this! This very special composer had music in his veins, no wonder the young Rachmaninov idolised him. You do him great service here. Thank you for all your music, it is a huge part of my life!

I love you Valentina Lisitsa !!!!

she is one of the best💗

The day I meet you I will probably cry with excitement and tell you how much you and your playing mean to me. I feel like I honestly already know you personally. I would probably be known as that crazy piano college student that posted and wrote so many facebook messages to you it could have possibly been considered as a crazy stalker alert Lol.. All I ask is that I can sit beside you one day and watch you play.. I would definitely love to do a duet with you. Maybe Hungarian Dance No 5 by Brahms ^^. As always, I love you as one of my idols for piano. Please continue giving us videos to watch and let me know if you travel close to Kentucky again. Merry Christmas and much love to you. Thomas Crawford.

Valentina, you are great, as human being, as pianist. All people who have a bit of discernment know that.

Bravo!!! Divina Valentina!!!

I wish you could come to my city, that would be amazing! I am from Edmonton, Alberta Canada!

A beautiful choice of music to play and share with us. Please come to the UK and play with the wonderful Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra :)

@muzickman76

8 жыл бұрын

+ValentinaLisitsa brilliant! I look forward to getting tickets to come and see you☺️👍🏻

I Love You Valentina Lisitsa

ideal interpretation...

I'm not 4 but 47, and just getting around to learning to play these pieces

@yuliawalker5622

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto :)

@goodstorylover

3 жыл бұрын

@@yuliawalker5622 Same here, I got back to playing the piano now during lockdown (after 40+ years :o)) - I am having online lessons now and just starting with this album :o)

@SoulfulSpinning

3 жыл бұрын

@@goodstorylover I am in exactly the same place. Looking through music with dates from my teacher 1979. Feels like coming home doesn’t it? Now I am looking to trade in my old upright from a better piano. I hope you are getting much joy from your piano.

@goodstorylover

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoulfulSpinning Thank you, oh yes, it helps me with structuring my day (I work part time), makes me practice regularly (and not to give in to mood swings many people have in these hard times), and it is interesting to discover that even after all those years my fingers still remember something:o) I like your channel a lot, btw, you have another subscriber! Many regards from the Czech Republic.

I can't imagine the genius that allowed you to accomplish this at 4. Of course, it is clear to anyone with ears and a soul that you are the greatest pianist in the world, and to those of us who have been honored to meet you, you have proven Michael Fine to be correct when he described you as an incredibly nice young woman. Please hurry back to Longwood Gardens. I enjoyed Oriental and Durham, but Longwood or other venues in PA, NJ, MD, NY are more accessible from PA. Thank you whenever or wherever you appear in Eastern USA. We'll do our best to get there. My whole family are your fans and enjoy all your CDs and DVDs. I've become addicted to Nuances. I knew very few of Scriabin's works, so I thank you for waking me up to them. Please hurry back!

Valentina, please, come to Spain!! I'm sure you have a lot of fans here and we want to hear you playing live!! If it is possible, come to the very beautiful city of Seville. Thank you:))

Hi Valentina, i just want to tell you that i'm waiting for any concert in Chile, i'm your fan since 2007 and i really would like to see you someday on my country, and maybe have an autograph from you! Have a great christmas, end and new year! Greetings from Chile. :)

Wonderful pieces that I have never heard before. Tchaikovsky was undoubtedly inspired by Schuman's Scenes From Childhood.

thank you

Очень красивое приятное слуху исполнение! Привет из России и приезжайте к нам на гастроли, мы Вас очень ждем! Этот альбом должен быть услышан всеми школьниками начальной школы)

Gostei muito desse concerto Erica

Valentina is my Love :-)

Валентина, хотел бы вас поздравить с днём вашего рождения. Увы, не сделал этого 11 декабря. Пусть талант, которым наградил вас Господь, никогда не иссякнет в вашей творческой жизни. Пусть ваше сердце и ваши руки, которые порхают над клавишами рояля, рождают самые лучшие звуки в этом мире.