I played this for grade 8 piano exam. This is the best version among all versions i have ever heard. Wish i have heard this when i was practising for the exam. It is so inspiring. And everything is just right about it. It is just as it should be. It totally shows the difference between how a concert pianist, as opposed to a student can play something so differently.
One of my very favorite Debussy pieces played with such beauty and depth by the beautiful lady. I love watching Grimaud's face as she plays....shows such serenity and intensity of spirit.
Thank you very much for posting this! Such and invigorating way to begin my morning. Your mastery of the piano is enchanting and this tribute is a many splendored thing. Much appreciation!
What I love about this is that it is very insistent and actually a little less wafty that what you often hear others do... it has a lot of depth... love the way she takes a piece and makes it her own
Very beautifully done. Why does anyone have to play this exactly the way Debussy may have felt in 1888. That was over a century & a quarter ago. That is not today, the times and how the composition would touch someone now. Isn't that the beauty of art, to feel the freedom and the courage to express it according to how you were moved by it. This performance certainly moved me.
Una de mis obras maestras favoritas, interpretada con perfección, dulzura, pasión y gracia. Hélène, nos transporta a donde Debussy nos quiere llevar. Maravillosa interpretación. Gracias y un abrazo desde Santiago de Chile.
One of my favorite masterpices, interpreted with perfection, sweetness, passion and grace. Hélène, transports us to where Debussy wants to take us. Wonderful interpretation. Thank you and a hug from Santiago de Chile.
Love the camera work starting from high above to close ups. Her piano work is amazing! If the video is Deutsche Gramophone in my opinion they have the best classical artists. I always look for their yellow banner. Helene Grimaud is an amazing concert pianist and I am sure she studied piano for years, and continually works on her discipline.
This is an absolutely gorgeous performance! The sound of the piano is incredible. The playing is filled with emotion, passion and sensitivity. Thank you for performing this beautiful piece of music!
This can still be played beautifully without changing it so much- as if somebody re-painted the “Water lilies” series but thought adding some yellow and separating the lily pads further here and there… somehow looked better to them. Of course it’s possible to paint a pond even better than Monet’s masterpieces, but not if you’re painting MONET’S paintings, ding dong. Paint your own, play your own. Otherwise tweaking something that’s already as well known and beautiful, original as-is that Debussy’s pieces are, comes off as arrogant and coddled.
But is the essence of the Water Lilies in the distance between the individual lilies? I would argue that music is not dead and an artist is free to interpret it the way they see fit. Of course you are absolutely free to like it or not, but I do not think we seeadvancements in music if we do not allow the artist to build on what's given and then make their own changes.
Ich mag weder den groben Klang noch diese schnellen Triolen, die sich nicht klar von den Achteln abheben... Sehr mittelmässige Studio- Einspielung von H. Grimaud... Schade!
If you are in a melancholic mood , this music is great to hear , but ... I miss a central melody with a real deep sense ! It sounds like a lovely background for a good melody that does not come. In nowadays there is no search for good composers. Only those musicians who can withstand the high demands of concert tours make it to the top , but these are usually not people who are sensitive. They don't feel deep feelings , so they only develop a creativity that is rather primitive with bad melodies. I have composed a lot of great music , here are three classic music works from me ... for a ballet dance : th-cam.com/video/Fc9KH8OGOH8/w-d-xo.html for figure-skating performances : th-cam.com/video/dZfE4B-U61M/w-d-xo.html A melancholic and meditative classical music : th-cam.com/video/zOzbng3FmtY/w-d-xo.html I'm not a one-dimensional person. Here are two of my folklore compositions : th-cam.com/video/HebssFqVq98/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/3ZEu0RWC9jc/w-d-xo.html I am looking for a collaboration with a String-Trio or a small Orchestra. Who would like ? My email is shown in all videos !
Je suis trés désolé, mais ce piano est trés abimé, son interprétation est bonne, romantique et parfois correcte; j'ais écoute deux oeuvres en TH-cam, est cette femme à amélioré beaucoup
Cette inerprétation est évidemment du tres grand art; cependant, elle est peut-etre un peu trop sophistiquée; il y a dans cette piece quelque chose de populaire et d'éphèmere qui , je trouve, ne passe pas trés bien ici, un peu trop de sérieux, pas assez de légèreté, d'insouciance.
It's French for god's sake. Could you possibly go any more overboard with the rubato? I get that everybody wants to be the most brilliant and unique interpreter that ever came down the pike, but there are moments here where the rhythm is completely unintelligible. Also, what's with everybody splitting the beat between the hands every other note? Is it supposed to make you sound more sensitive? Is everyone doing this now just because they've heard others doing it? Just play the music. You obviously have complete mastery of the instrument, so you are fully capable of a world class performance that actually sounds like Debussy. . . Or we can all keep trying to out express each other until a performance of this piece lasts two hours.
Thank you for saying that. I hate how classical music has became a rather pretentious thing, caring more about technique and being unique instead of actually playing stylistically accurate and having an honest, candid emotion. This performance feels completely castrated to me.
Thank god (or whatever helps..). Somebody gets it. Though parts of this is as beautiful as any, I am so tired of the experience as well. I thought I was the only one, since it became so trendy to scold anyone not using glowing praise for anything ever the last five to ten years or so. “Toxic positivity” sounds only oxymoronic at first… but it’s definitely a phenomenon, feeding delusion and continuing confusion. I don’t mind all sorts of “versions” and tweaks to music from composers/writers still alive, that endorse it. Something like a piece from Debussy or any past masters, is equal in my brain as a painting from Da Vinci or sculpture from Michelangelo. Do what you want, but that is damned tacky, and don’t be so proud for reworking a masterpiece for pete’s sake. I’ve seen Warhol treatments and other cutesy twists applied to things that originally took tons more work and understanding to develop the first time created… and it’s bratty to me. There’s always some fancy argument about what art “is” and “how could we limit people like that…” and let everyone do whatever they want, etc… Well sure, they should do whatever they want, but self-flattery while assuming what they change on a beloved pinnacle of music is what we want to hear, reeks of the inability to know of they’ve ever shown disrespect. That’s the kind of mentality that thinks you’re interrupting them if you simply keep talking, after they obviously interrupted your sentence. There is a limit.
Do you have any references for a quote from Debussy stating it should not be played with ruboto (or minimal ruboto). A great pianist or teacher having the same opinion then you is not a good reference by the way.
I played this for grade 8 piano exam. This is the best version among all versions i have ever heard. Wish i have heard this when i was practising for the exam. It is so inspiring. And everything is just right about it. It is just as it should be.
It totally shows the difference between how a concert pianist, as opposed to a student can play something so differently.
One of my very favorite Debussy pieces played with such beauty and depth by the beautiful lady. I love watching Grimaud's face as she plays....shows such serenity and intensity of spirit.
This is a beautiful pice of music and played perfect. We loe you Helene.👍🌹
The piano, the acoustics of the setting, the performance, and of course the pianist, all great.
And the Recording Engineer... :-)
Merveilleuse Hélène Grimaud quel plaisir de la revoir elle est si rare !
I love to see Helene Grimaud playing this beautiful piece of Debussy.❤❤❤
The delicacy of Helene's performance always leaves me in the clouds... Thank you very much! 💖
Thank you very much for posting this!
Such and invigorating way to begin my morning.
Your mastery of the piano is enchanting and this tribute is a many splendored thing.
Much appreciation!
That did it. I'm in love. 😍
Helene is one of those rare women who become more beautiful with time. ❤
Perfect performance, player, settings and recording .
Holy-smoke, what a beautiful performance.😊
What I love about this is that it is very insistent and actually a little less wafty that what you often hear others do... it has a lot of depth... love the way she takes a piece and makes it her own
absolutely agree with you.
Very beautifully done. Why does anyone have to play this exactly the way Debussy may have felt in 1888. That was over a century & a quarter ago. That is not today, the times and how the composition would touch someone now. Isn't that the beauty of art, to feel the freedom and the courage to express it according to how you were moved by it. This performance certainly moved me.
Una de mis obras maestras favoritas, interpretada con perfección, dulzura, pasión y gracia.
Hélène, nos transporta a donde Debussy nos quiere llevar. Maravillosa interpretación. Gracias y un abrazo desde Santiago de Chile.
One of my favorite masterpices, interpreted with perfection, sweetness, passion and grace.
Hélène, transports us to where Debussy wants to take us. Wonderful interpretation. Thank you and a hug from Santiago de Chile.
Love the camera work starting from high above to close ups. Her piano work is amazing! If the video is Deutsche Gramophone in my opinion they have the best classical artists. I always look for their yellow banner. Helene Grimaud is an amazing concert pianist and I am sure she studied piano for years, and continually works on her discipline.
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Good observation that she continually works on her discipline
Pure pleasure!! She is sublime in her playing of this Debussy
that is amazing!
Literal angels couldn't have illuminated that hall as wonderfully as Helene did.
This is consciousness-elevating music and interpretation.💝
I am lost for words so nice 3 times over i have listen to you well done magic
La Belle Hélène.. Bravo, superbe interprétation.
Oh c’est très beau merci pour ce beau moment ❤❤❤
This is an absolutely gorgeous performance! The sound of the piano is incredible. The playing is filled with emotion, passion and sensitivity. Thank you for performing this beautiful piece of music!
The unique, incomparable Hélène Grimaud and "Her" Debussy. Thank you for this magnificence.
Как мило, тонко, он излишней аффектации ! Благодарю !
🌈ОНА ЧУДЕСНА❣️🌝 БОЖЕСТВЕННАЯ
Loved that this recording was on World Piano Day video this year ❤
I love her music 🎶🎵❤
Awesome. What a tranquil and exotic performance!
Bellissima interpretazione. Il tocco e' perfetto.....il suono e' davvero armonioso e cristallino. Bravissima
The queen of sweetness at the piano
Helen is allways Helen. She is adorable in every way just as her piano playing.
Great, thank you.
Excelente!
perfection sheer perfection
es ist mehr als Perfektion. Sie ist die Seele dessen was sie für uns interpretiert. Aloha
I have it hard to find some not misused words to say after this wonderful playing. Perhaps I only shall say this is good?
💜💜💜
WWOOWW 😮❤👏🏼👌🏼
It's lovely ❤
A miracle
Your soul plays piano .
🌹🌹🌹❤
divine
Excelente
here i see 'WPD performance' again... what is it?
I feel a hundred years of loneliness in her beautiful performance
😍😍😍
Great
I'm not sure I've heard better. Moved, lol
This can still be played beautifully without changing it so much- as if somebody re-painted the “Water lilies” series but thought adding some yellow and separating the lily pads further here and there… somehow looked better to them.
Of course it’s possible to paint a pond even better than Monet’s masterpieces, but not if you’re painting MONET’S paintings, ding dong.
Paint your own, play your own. Otherwise tweaking something that’s already as well known and beautiful, original as-is that Debussy’s pieces are, comes off as arrogant and coddled.
But is the essence of the Water Lilies in the distance between the individual lilies? I would argue that music is not dead and an artist is free to interpret it the way they see fit. Of course you are absolutely free to like it or not, but I do not think we seeadvancements in music if we do not allow the artist to build on what's given and then make their own changes.
❤❤❤❤
She loves wolves which makes this for me, all the more special...!
🌹🌹🌹❤
Ce piano a une très belle sonorité, on dirait un piano neuf; et grace à la délicatesse de Mme Grimaud il sonne merveilleusement.
🎹🐺✨
Ich mag weder den groben Klang noch diese schnellen Triolen, die sich nicht klar von den Achteln abheben... Sehr mittelmässige Studio- Einspielung von H. Grimaud... Schade!
If you are in a melancholic mood , this music is great to hear , but ... I miss a central melody with a real deep sense ! It sounds like a lovely background for a good melody that does not come. In nowadays there is no search for good composers. Only those musicians who can withstand the high demands of concert tours make it to the top , but these are usually not people who are sensitive. They don't feel deep feelings , so they only develop a creativity that is rather primitive with bad melodies. I have composed a lot of great music , here are three classic music works from me ... for a ballet dance : th-cam.com/video/Fc9KH8OGOH8/w-d-xo.html for figure-skating performances : th-cam.com/video/dZfE4B-U61M/w-d-xo.html A melancholic and meditative classical music : th-cam.com/video/zOzbng3FmtY/w-d-xo.html I'm not a one-dimensional person. Here are two of my folklore compositions : th-cam.com/video/HebssFqVq98/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/3ZEu0RWC9jc/w-d-xo.html I am looking for a collaboration with a String-Trio or a small Orchestra. Who would like ? My email is shown in all videos !
I miss her pale looking face，That have personality , a symbol with her。
987th likes ;)
It sounds like a piece of somebody else. Sound is strangely harsh and detailed but dispersive without a precise design
I think her playing is even more romantic than Thibaudet.
Je suis trés désolé, mais ce piano est trés abimé, son interprétation est bonne, romantique et parfois correcte; j'ais écoute deux oeuvres en TH-cam, est cette femme à amélioré beaucoup
Cette inerprétation est évidemment du tres grand art; cependant, elle est peut-etre un peu trop sophistiquée; il y a dans cette piece quelque chose de populaire et d'éphèmere qui , je trouve, ne passe pas trés bien ici, un peu trop de sérieux, pas assez de légèreté, d'insouciance.
🟡❤️🟦🟠💜
It's French for god's sake. Could you possibly go any more overboard with the rubato? I get that everybody wants to be the most brilliant and unique interpreter that ever came down the pike, but there are moments here where the rhythm is completely unintelligible. Also, what's with everybody splitting the beat between the hands every other note? Is it supposed to make you sound more sensitive? Is everyone doing this now just because they've heard others doing it? Just play the music. You obviously have complete mastery of the instrument, so you are fully capable of a world class performance that actually sounds like Debussy. . . Or we can all keep trying to out express each other until a performance of this piece lasts two hours.
Thank you for saying that. I hate how classical music has became a rather pretentious thing, caring more about technique and being unique instead of actually playing stylistically accurate and having an honest, candid emotion. This performance feels completely castrated to me.
我是有多爱你的人生态度和态度混为一谈，我是一个人的人生态度和态度混为一谈。
Agreed. Debussy never intended for his piece to be played with such freedom. What a shame
Thank god (or whatever helps..). Somebody gets it. Though parts of this is as beautiful as any, I am so tired of the experience as well. I thought I was the only one, since it became so trendy to scold anyone not using glowing praise for anything ever the last five to ten years or so. “Toxic positivity” sounds only oxymoronic at first… but it’s definitely a phenomenon, feeding delusion and continuing confusion.
I don’t mind all sorts of “versions” and tweaks to music from composers/writers still alive, that endorse it. Something like a piece from Debussy or any past masters, is equal in my brain as a painting from Da Vinci or sculpture from Michelangelo. Do what you want, but that is damned tacky, and don’t be so proud for reworking a masterpiece for pete’s sake.
I’ve seen Warhol treatments and other cutesy twists applied to things that originally took tons more work and understanding to develop the first time created… and it’s bratty to me.
There’s always some fancy argument about what art “is” and “how could we limit people like that…” and let everyone do whatever they want, etc…
Well sure, they should do whatever they want, but self-flattery while assuming what they change on a beloved pinnacle of music is what we want to hear, reeks of the inability to know of they’ve ever shown disrespect. That’s the kind of mentality that thinks you’re interrupting them if you simply keep talking, after they obviously interrupted your sentence.
There is a limit.
Do you have any references for a quote from Debussy stating it should not be played with ruboto (or minimal ruboto). A great pianist or teacher having the same opinion then you is not a good reference by the way.
Definitely not, she's hammering the piano and crucifying Debussy. 😩