![]() ![]() And she is also a delicate, sensitive, fluid player who can ripple gently over the keys with the unctuous smoothness of oil.” I was impressed, sometimes dazzled and sometimes even taken aback by the ferocity of her fortissimos. You feel you’re getting a strong performer but also a sense of what the piece is like rather than of how Lisitsa plays it. She offers readings that are, when you penetrate through the satin curtains of the soft playing and the thunder of the loud playing, fundamentally honest and direct. She does not seek to create a persona, much less impose one on what she is playing. ‘Straightforward’ is an inadequate term for virtuosity. ![]() Washington Post Online wrote: “It’s striking that her playing is relatively straightforward. BIOGRAPHY, SEASON 2019/2020 Valentina Lisitsa is not only the first «YouTube star» of classical music more importantly, she is the first classical artist to have converted her internet success into a global concert career in the principal venues of Europe, the USA, South America and Asia.
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