Valentina Lisitsa Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2012)

This Royal Albert Hall Concert presented now on DVD was also available online through live streaming It is difficult to remember the last time any concert gave me so much pleasure and insight and sent my soul soaring to such heights of joy So many beloved piano pieces so magnificently performed Valentina has scaled the heights of technique knocking off impossible Liszt pieces like a stroll in the park She melds with the piano with such assured ease that she can milk every piece for musical content and subtlety reminding us of the great Hoffman who also loved to play each piece a little differently every time tapping deeply into the inexhaustible potential of a great composition perpetually finding fresh ideas and magnificent new interpretations