Hey everybody, I know things are crazy right now and a lot of us are stuck at home or out of work. If you want, take 5 minutes to chill here and escape. Wash your hands first, though.
This is musical impressionism. Debussy was a big if not the bigger exponent of this movement in music, almost all of his pieces are "paintings" with notes. It's personally my favourite era of music followed by romanticism. Ps. I highly recommend you to check out "La Cathédrale Engloutie" if you haven't already. He paints a beautiful sight on aquatic sounds on that particular piece. I apologize for any misspellings. I haven't written in English for a long time
@@thespeedyyoshi The despair is what happened... this song is the bittersweet hope that was passed on after. "It's a soothing song that calms your heart, like the moon's reflection on water..."
My grandpa died a couple years ago and when I was driving with my brother and now sister-in-law from the church where we held the funeral to the burial site, this song started playing in the car. When I heard it, I knew it sounded pretty, but it was so much more than that. This song really sparked something inside of me, so with my grandma’s help (who’s married to the grandparent that died), I learned Clair de Lune. What I came to realize is that the song is, in a way, representative of a lifetime, whereas in the birth of the song there are simple, fundamental chords that lay out the trajectory for the rest of the song. Then the song goes through puberty and flowers into a fulfillment of its true potential with beautiful and complex chord progressions. The song then nears its end as it grows old and reflects on life, where it combines the original chords from the beginning of the song with some chord progressions underneath. Then, the song goes through a little more reflection and dies. What’s interesting is that I always thought that death was a terrible, morbid thing, yet in this song death is presumably bright and happy. I found that the reason death is actually portrayed as such a beautiful thing in this song is because without death we’d always have tomorrow to do what’s important, to grow out relationships, to involve ourselves in a rich and meaningful life. But someday there won’t be a tomorrow, so we need to do what’s important now. I finally found peace in the eternal rest of my grandfather, for, just as the light of the moon is the greatness that can be found in the death of the day, all of the great things I can love about not only my grandpa but all of this universe is found through the inevitable end to our lives. Thanks, Debussy, for showing me that death is just as necessary as it is beautiful.
"We'll see creation come undone These bones that bound us will be gone We'll stir our spirits 'till we're one Then soft as shadows we'll become" - Porter Robinson (Sea of Voices)
Hope you and yours stay healthy, happy, and filled with as much peace as is possible during these strange and unfamiliar times. How wonderful it is that music can bring so many strangers together 💖🎵
This song always reminds me of walking a city street alone and just "being". You know when you just stand there and simply exist for a moment in the chaos of the people around you. No real thoughts. Just...taking a moment to remember that you're alive. Edit: I know it's a piece. My bad guys. Lol.
Holy Crap!!!!! Just reading this description took me right there. Sometimes I find my self doing that when I'm in the city (Brisbane, Australia) and do exactly this and then at a certain point you just exhale and know that it's time to keep walking on. I also have a dream of doing this somewhere in the streets of New York. Anyways thankyou for writing your thoughts out so perfectly, it resonated with me.
@Dubhaltach McSweeney I love when musicians pour so much of themselves into their music that the listener is transported almost literally into their mind. Even a 130 years later.
Hello! I come from Italy and have been locked up at home for quite a while now. Thanks a lot for these and the other videos you make, they are always beautiful. Music can stop every fear and anxiety we have, thanks again.
This is actually the first time for 22 years of my life that I have just sat back, closed my eyes, took a nice big breath and just listened to the music, no thoughts no nothing, just Charles playing. At one part I started seeing myself walking the beach alone, just palms, water, sand, blue sky and me. My eyes started watering and I don't know to describe my feelings, happiness or sadness don't know which one is it but it surely felt beautiful.. Everything just stopped for these five minutes and I realized I have to take my time and enjoy things I love. I sing and play guitar for 5 years now but I have never sat alone in a calm room where its only me and music, now I have realized what I have been missing. Thank you Charles, you taught me an important lesson.
Muscle memory is a strange and wondrous thing. Most of the pieces I've memorized, I did so by playing over and over until one day I discovered I didn't need sheet music for them anymore (as opposed to sitting down and saying, "I am going to commit this piece to memory"). If your muscle memory of the song is good enough, playing with eyes closed enhances the experience and sometimes allows for more expressiveness while playing. Unless you hit a wrong note. Then the spell is broken. 😜
My wife walked down the aisle to this song six months ago. The start of the most amazing journey. Thank you for letting me relive that for a few minutes ❤
You have transgender understanding and now realize the feeling of love and respect is all about the way you worded it gave a Sense of direction to your feelings thanks so much for your insight
I'm not completely stressed out and now crying at how chill and relieving and comforting this is, YOU'RE completely stressed out and now crying at how chill and relieving and comforting this is. Also thank you for this not being Cardi B shouting at me.
Mild Satire woahhh you know a lot about classical music and you like telling people that they don’t know anything about classical music! Here’s a gold medal! 🏅
My friend and I was talking about this song since the start of quarantine in Malaysia (18/3/2020). This is his favourite song because this song gave him the courage to actually learn up other songs and to push his standard in playing the piano and sight reading. He had asked me for guidance in this beautiful piece of romantic period classical piece and hes still in the process of learning the dark and strong Eb minor part. He had asked me to teach him piano but i told him i didnt have the standard to teach him but i told him that i can guide you in your favourite song. He chose this song and it has been my daily practicing song as well. This video almost made me cry just by how nice it sounded and I just woke up from my sleep (its 10:31am in Penang, Malaysia). I saw this when I switch on my phone and this video was on my recommendations and I just click on it. I didnt regret clicking on it. Its super nice and I believe you've made someone else's day. Great job and thank you sir❤️❤️!!
There's something about this song. It just...holds me. Not like a swift grasping of my hand or a clasp on my shoulder but more like a slow comforting hug and a soft voice saying: "You're gonna be okay." Thank you Charles. Life's been getting a bit out of hand recently and I needed this.
Corona virus: *Happens* Me: *Sleeps until 3* *Watches TH-cam all day* *Doesn’t touch a piano for days* Charles: So anyways I learned Claire de lune, can now play the oboe and have found my passion for lion taming. Me: Did you know I slept for 17 hours on Saturday. That was fun.
Thank you for the beautiful song! Being stuck at home I've come to appreciate TH-cam content even more. Commenting also feels more fun because it reminds me we are all in this together.
Daphne Fullerton don’t worry, don’t listen to all that fake stuff they say on public broadcasting, this TH-camr named Doctor Mike has a lot of good true information and made me feel less worried. You’ll get through it, if our great grandparents could get through the Black Death and through WW1/WW2 we can make it through this. Have a nice day and think positively.
If you're playing from memory, it's distracting to look at your hands. I sometimes start watching my hands while they're playing and I'm like "hey, these hands are playing the piano... look at those veins" and then whoosh I'm out of the flow and I forget how to play the piano
this is my favorite piece of classical music. my dad sent me a recording of him playing it for me because i can't visit him right now. he's immunocompromised because of chemo therapy and i haven't heard him play in so long. i got his video yesterday and cried my eyes out. and now you. this is wonderful. thank you so, so, so much. ❤️
@@MrShagification ever heard of something called a "broader term"? nobody says "romantic era piece". also don't go mansplaining me, i was fucking raised in an opera family lmao
@@shines1397 when people go through royal conservatory training they're usually told to differentiate musical eras, baroque, classical, romantic, modern, etc. I think he was just trying to politely inform you of the fact that it's a romantic piece, so there's no need to be rude
MCVictorious actually, "classical" is mainly the widespread term for pretty much all pre-20th century composition, despite being a specific era itself. "classical" can describe music from renaissance to romantic. pleases educate yourself before spewing out big words to make someone feel stupid online! p.s. hope this pandemic spares you and your father :)
I’ve been looking for a really good rendition of Claire de Lune for a long time.. Rousseau was pretty damn good. But dammit, the feeling and emotion that you conveyed through this video is just absolutely insane. I don’t think i’ve ever been emotionally fully invested on a video before. Thank you for helping, Charles. Peace from Paris!
@@lars1588 Nah surely it's important, i mean, you're finishing off the first eight years of schooling to go on to highschool, it's a pretty big leap on to a new medium. I really hope that your graduation doesn't get cancelled.
This piece of music instantly calms me, always has. Recently, with everything going on I feel my heart beating out of my chest but not right now. Right now I can feel that slipping away and my whole body relaxing and my mind emptying of thought. Beautiful
I can totally relate to this! When I was a baby I would fall asleep to this song every night, so now whenever I need to calm down or fall asleep I just put this on and I’m out.
@CharlesCornell This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Everyone always plays it so fast, you actually played it slow. That's the way it should be played
i’ve had a very hard time sleeping lately. i’m trying every trick in the book and nothing is working. never did i think to come back to piano music. my mom would play her grand piano for me and my brothers nightly when we were kids. youtube rly did me a solid by putting your video right on the front page. thank you for everything you do!
Me too, except I would listen to classical music on a little radio I had in my room. Claire de lune was actually one I remember listening to quite a bit
there's been so much pain... so much death and loss and loneliness since you posted this at the start of all of this madness and I remember sobbing, so afraid, so lost in darkness. but we're still here and so is this beautiful rendition with such a different meaning now.
Scared ICU RN here... spent the last two nights taking care of a patient that is being tested to rule out COVID-19. I'll probably will have this same patient again tonight. It's only going to get worse, we're going to run out of negative pressure rooms, protective equipment, and ventilators. It's really got me worried. So... from the bottom of my heart. Thank you, Charles, for posting this beautiful rendition of Clair de Lune.
moseleych thank you for everything you are doing right now, i know it sometimes can go unappreciated. But thank you for being here during this time to help people.
This is the best interpretation of clair de lune imo. I remember seeing this in the midst of all the chaos at the beginning of 2020, and it really gave me a sense of calm. Hope everyone is doing well
can someone edit out the piano so it’s just Charles moving elegantly while passionately twiddling his fingers into the abyss of nothing EDIT: I mean the actual piano, not the piano track so turning down the volume is not the solution 🤣
I’m immunocompromised. I’m being told by all my doctors that I have to keep myself quarantined for idk how long. I had to take a leave of absence from my job. I won’t be seeing anyone for a really long time. I’ve been very upset about this all day. This video uploaded just in time. This is my favorite song to hear on piano. It’s been in my life for as long as I can remember. My dad would play it for me all the time when I was younger. Thank you for this one small video. It really means a lot to me right now.
I searched it up to prove you wrong, yet I stand corrected: Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: No. 3, Clair De Lune "Moonlight" (Clair de Lune). Thank you for encouraging critical thinking, my man.
@@LeafyK well, for one, I love this song so much I listened to it EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. So, I see the title every day and when someone written it different, it's just makes me wonder if I'm wrong all this time. Lol! You are welcome 😊
“The idea that you’re so small compared the rest of the omniverse can be frightening, yet comforting, it just depends on who you are. Some people want to keep exploring, and some people just want out.“ -Frank
Man, I have tried teaching myself Clair de Lune for about a year now. The slow parts are working out just fine, but the arpeggiated parts are a disaster...guess my left hand is just too dumb. Anyway, thanks for that beautiful rendition. Big fan of your channel! Edit: thank you for all the kind words. Thing is, I am currently preparing to start studying conducting, for which I need a buttload of piano and to be able to read full scores and sightread them is getting me to my limits. Might have panicked a little.
ive been having the same problem too, im a violinist and can only read treble clef and figuring out the notes is tricky especially with all the flats. the arpeggios always get me :/
Honestly, that's just the way it is; you'll find yourself saying the same thing later when you learn something much more difficult. You just have to keep working, and you'll be amazed with what you can play next!
The first part is like moonlight trying to break trough dark and big clouds, then down comes the moonlight shining up the road in the middle of the night.
Hey Charles. I just wanted to say thank you, all jokes aside. I’ve been having a really tough time mentally as of late and you made me smile with this.
Clair de Lune makes me think of time, of life, of the fact that someday I’ll move on, so to speak, but life will go on, time will go on, and despite all of our worries it’ll be okay. It’s, simply put, in my opinion, the most beautiful work of art ever created, and will never cease to move me.
2020 is a rough year. I've been through alot of problems. I lost my job, lost my hope, having difficult time for almost everyday. I don't even know why I drop tears while listening this piece.
In New Zealand there's 20 cases of the Coronavirus and our country is quite small. Our schools have not been shut down but it's an extremely close possibility. Stay safe guys. Kia kaha and chur from NZ👌 Edit: the numbers are rising fast y'all :/
Greetings from Czechia, we have got 572 cases, our schools are shut down, we can not go outside, if you go to work or shopping you must be covering your face.
Oh, Greetings from Germany. Every school is closed and we still have to write exams... many shops closed too, and, well... It's kinda boring to just stay at home but that's what we should do right now.
Imagine this, a small bus stop, youre waiting for your bus home after being laid off, all you hear is the pitter patter of raindrops hitting your small umbrella. You reminisce on your day, how awful it had been, but when you reminisce it doesn't feel bad, you don't feel guilty or worry. You don't even feel happiness or joy, all you feel is calmness, stillness in the rain, with no one around to look or talk to. But as you grow bored waiting, there are puddles just calling to you, you want to jump in. So you do. You laugh and play and then realize it was childish, but you don't care, no one is around after all, so you keep hopping around and playing, which you haven't done in a very long time, your bus arrives. You greet the driver and he greets you, you take your seat and look outside the foggy window and see the rain again, the drops flowing down upon the glass. The rain isn't gloomy or sad, but not completely delightful either. You think even more about what had happened just then, as you stood around in rain, hopped through puddles like a child, you forgot you were laid off, the calm rain made the world go still. For once, you were truly alone, truly at peace, truly a child again. But now you are going home, you aren't sad that it was over, just happy that it happened.
This is my dad’s favorite piece, and he and my sister and I are all in the handbell choir my mom directs at church. So, for my wedding, I had the handbell choir (with subs in for us four) secretly learn this piece. At the ceremony, my husband’s parents and my parents came up to say a prayer over us while the handbells played this piece.
01:06am lying in bed listening and watching this for the second time. Thing is I have this song on Spotify, but it's sounds do much nicer while actually watching you play it. Thank you so much 💕💕💕
As we look to the incoming storm, we must close our eyes and walk into that howling dark. The storm looks treacherous, but who knows what's on the other side.
Bryce McKenzie if it’s, a hurricane than most likely death, if this is a metaphor, then, umm.. I guess I missed the point and took it way to literally.
Just wanted to say thank you for playing Clair de Lune. I listen to you playing it whenever I struggle to fall asleep so it's really helping. You play it so beautifully and full of emotion. Thank you!
After you practice a piece enough, It transfers to your muscle memory. You only have to look at the keys for large jumps or intervals, sometimes not even that.
HuanHuan Dong It's actually not that hard, and something you have to learn if you want to get into higher tier stuff. Especially when actually reading the sheets (which most professionals will do even if memorized, just keeps them on track.), you aren't able to look at your hands in between. Plus it feels nice to play with your eyes closed 😎
Hey! It took me over a year to learn another song by Debussy called Arabesque 1. Don't you mind about what others can achieve, you just do the best you can. ;)
My wife walked the aisle at our wedding to the LXD remix of this song. It holds a special place in my heart. The patience to let it breathe, well done. Thank you.
There are two pieces of classical music which seem to always give me chills: Claire de Lune and Pas de Deux. They both make this feeling appear in my chest...something that feels both incredibly heavy and yet weightless at the same time. Thank you for this❤
For me it's the Lark Ascending, and the 2nd mvt of Ravel's piano concerto in G major... just pure chill-up-the-spine material for me. Definitely worth checking out in a dark room with good headphones. 😁
In this time of loneliness we can still hear a story being told, one of happiness or perhaps of sadness. One of nostalgia of a time where things were easier. Or maybe you weren't listening to the story, instead listening to the softening voice of the one that told you it. In this time of loneliness, we still find music. We still find beauty. We still find hope.
Even after coming back to this four months later, it brings back everything I felt at the time it came out. It’s strange coming back, it feels like a completely different 2020.
When i listen to this song, it feels like i'm the only one on this planet, and it just feels like it describes life.... So beautiful and complicated..... Also i'm italian and i'm living under a lot of stress right now.... This song reminds me about the great experience that life is... I'm scared, everyone is... Stay safe everybody! Charles thank you for this you're so talented! I wish you a lot of happiness❤️
Well everyone's struggling and coping with this... May God bless you all... We're from diffrent countries.... But we're all human beings and nobody deserves this
@@aamu3 hey, i just checked your channel, you make really good content but i think that if you would upload full covers either on the guitar or the piano it would be better, anyways thanks for the kind words we all will overcome this!
@@mlggodzilla1567 awww oh my god! Thank you so much for checking out my channel!! Oh okay! That's a good thing to hear 💛 it's very difficult to record a video without mistakes haha that's one of the reasons why they're not full covers 😁
@@aamu3 i feel you on that, when i don't have to record anything my playing is quite smooth, not that i am really good but at least i don't make mistakes, but when i have to record i suddenly get anxious and i even start to forget entire bars.
charles dunno if ur ever gonna see this but thanks for trying to make all of ur viewers happy by uploading videos still i just hope things can go back to normal for everyone :(
Hey everybody, I know things are crazy right now and a lot of us are stuck at home or out of work. If you want, take 5 minutes to chill here and escape. Wash your hands first, though.
No u
Charles Cornell Thanks man.
yessir
Will do
Charles Cornell thank you for the wholesome content! It’s beautiful and just what we needed!
When Charles finally practices for his music lesson
ah yEs
haha i understand that reference
@@May-yk1ej I see that you know your judo well
* DOOR FLIES OPEN *
"YOU SOUND BAD!!!!"
.eno doooooG
Why does this song just feel like a musical sigh? Emotionally aching right now, thank you for some moonlight in the darkness.
You should listen to Liszt Un Sospiro... It literally translates into " a sigh" haha. it's awesome tooo
Calvish I love Liszt!
This is musical impressionism. Debussy was a big if not the bigger exponent of this movement in music, almost all of his pieces are "paintings" with notes. It's personally my favourite era of music followed by romanticism.
Ps. I highly recommend you to check out "La Cathédrale Engloutie" if you haven't already. He paints a beautiful sight on aquatic sounds on that particular piece.
I apologize for any misspellings. I haven't written in English for a long time
@@LucasGonzalez-yu6ny you English is better than mine....and it’s my first language. I will definitely check out that piece
@@bransonsharp2488 who doesn’t?
This is toilet paper worthy, a true god tier song
Amazing how that has come to mean something very different than it did 3 weeks ago
@@CharlesCornellStudios supply and demand my friend...supply and demand...
@@CharlesCornellStudios *o h*
Yess yess, PIEce you mean?
I'll give five rolls for this wonderful performance.
It's like the game "The Evil Within"
When you hear Clair de Lune, you know you're safe.
Just Some Guy without a Mustache exactly
or the game danganronpa.
Then you just feel despair lol
Exactly, I always thought the same thing if u hear a piano playing that beautiful piece u know ur safe and don't need to worry about anything
@@thespeedyyoshi The despair is what happened... this song is the bittersweet hope that was passed on after.
"It's a soothing song that calms your heart, like the moon's reflection on water..."
YESSSSSSSS
This 5 minutes felt like an hour,
I’m not complaining
My grandpa died a couple years ago and when I was driving with my brother and now sister-in-law from the church where we held the funeral to the burial site, this song started playing in the car. When I heard it, I knew it sounded pretty, but it was so much more than that. This song really sparked something inside of me, so with my grandma’s help (who’s married to the grandparent that died), I learned Clair de Lune. What I came to realize is that the song is, in a way, representative of a lifetime, whereas in the birth of the song there are simple, fundamental chords that lay out the trajectory for the rest of the song. Then the song goes through puberty and flowers into a fulfillment of its true potential with beautiful and complex chord progressions. The song then nears its end as it grows old and reflects on life, where it combines the original chords from the beginning of the song with some chord progressions underneath. Then, the song goes through a little more reflection and dies. What’s interesting is that I always thought that death was a terrible, morbid thing, yet in this song death is presumably bright and happy. I found that the reason death is actually portrayed as such a beautiful thing in this song is because without death we’d always have tomorrow to do what’s important, to grow out relationships, to involve ourselves in a rich and meaningful life. But someday there won’t be a tomorrow, so we need to do what’s important now. I finally found peace in the eternal rest of my grandfather, for, just as the light of the moon is the greatness that can be found in the death of the day, all of the great things I can love about not only my grandpa but all of this universe is found through the inevitable end to our lives. Thanks, Debussy, for showing me that death is just as necessary as it is beautiful.
What a beautiful comment.
Sir, this is a Starbucks
But seriously, that is a very well put together comment.
this is the best comment i’ve ever seen on youtube
"We'll see creation come undone
These bones that bound us will be gone
We'll stir our spirits 'till we're one
Then soft as shadows we'll become"
- Porter Robinson (Sea of Voices)
I feel so bad for you but you are right it really sparks something inside of you about how to appreciate your family
Me: Plays Minecraft for 7 hours straight and not eating at all.
Charles: umm... I learned Clair De Lune on piano. I also saved a life.
Same.
Not only am I playing Minecraft on my computer but I’m also playing Minecraft on the piano. Hello, brethren.
That’sNotHow YouButtonAFlannel uh i wanna play minecraft songs on piano link me to the sheet music/chords you’re using
Eyyyyyy
canadia blossom it’s easy just use the black keys if you want me to give you more details hmu
This made me cry. A tornado just destroyed my home town, I'm quarantined and am being laid off. This made it all better for a few minutes. Thank you
I'm so sorry :(
Where do you live? Tennessee?
These Bitches Want Nikes I think he’s talking about the one that struck Alabama?
LMAOOOOO I read that as a tomato destroying ur house. Btw sorry for laughing my true sympathies are with you.
Hope u get better
Ironically, this was posted to be escapism, but this makes the perfect apocalypse "world is collapsing but everything's somehow okay" music
This song is great for that, but I think Adagio for Strings is the perfect song for that occasion.
You should check out the remix of Over The Rainbow done for the new Godzilla movie, has the same vibes. I think they also used Claire de Lune as well.
Awkward 😬
Remember Godzilla's trailer?
It is a very hauntingly beautiful song
"The world is NOT COLLAPSING" why does everyone freak out about this?????? Im sick of this
Hope you and yours stay healthy, happy, and filled with as much peace as is possible during these strange and unfamiliar times. How wonderful it is that music can bring so many strangers together 💖🎵
Rise and shine ❤️🎶🤪th-cam.com/video/1x1Fz-rQvr8/w-d-xo.html
Quotes i love and appreciate #100,897
@@terencemusicsteelpan3311 dude, stop spamming, so annoying
"These are confusing times"
now where’s the jazz version charles. we neED THE JAZZ VERSION.
up
YA LIKE JAZZ??
me too.
Kamasi Washington already did that about as well as anyone possibly could.
@@TomFaical y
U like jazz?
Bruh i love his facial expressions. His head just goes
↗️↙️↕️↘️↖️➡️↙️⤴️➡️🔃⬇️➡️↕️⬇️↖️↙️
pure yes
@@May-yk1ej right??
Well for this live of music you have to feel it to play it
Holy shit why do these match up with his actual head movement what
I tried following those motions quickly. It made my neck hurt.
This song always reminds me of walking a city street alone and just "being". You know when you just stand there and simply exist for a moment in the chaos of the people around you. No real thoughts. Just...taking a moment to remember that you're alive.
Edit: I know it's a piece. My bad guys. Lol.
Holy Crap!!!!!
Just reading this description took me right there. Sometimes I find my self doing that when I'm in the city (Brisbane, Australia) and do exactly this and then at a certain point you just exhale and know that it's time to keep walking on. I also have a dream of doing this somewhere in the streets of New York.
Anyways thankyou for writing your thoughts out so perfectly, it resonated with me.
Wow, that's what I think too... You helped me realizing it!
@Dubhaltach McSweeney I love when musicians pour so much of themselves into their music that the listener is transported almost literally into their mind. Even a 130 years later.
iT's A pIeCe
Actually I’m dead
"Clair de Lune. English translation:
" _Clear the Saloon_ "
- Victor Borge
"Claire de Lune. English translation:
" Clear the Saloon"
-Victor Borge
-Lez Zurcher"-RaulRuul
Sometwo who ofteleven remembers Victor Borge is a gr'nine person three have around.
@@jdanofut I've heard that two befive.
Moonlight :) (and litterally moon’s clear)
@@Raulruul"Clair De Lune. English translation: 'Clear the saloon'
-Victor Borge
-Lez Zurcher
-RaulRuul"
-Jasmin Javahery
Hello! I come from Italy and have been locked up at home for quite a while now. Thanks a lot for these and the other videos you make, they are always beautiful. Music can stop every fear and anxiety we have, thanks again.
frog 蛙 have you heard music from the balconies?
@@taylorrouton8601 oh god
As an Spanish neighbour of yours, I agree.
Altea Guevara Alonso together! 🇪🇸🇮🇹
Quarantined Italians sing folk songs. I think that's the youtube search entry.
The perfect embodiment of the "this is fine meme"
Prove me wrong
Wooyoung Jung i can prove you are right
There is nothing to prove wrong here.
Wooyoung Jung “If I can’t see you, I don’t want to be aware of your existence.” - my message to Covid-19
This is actually the first time for 22 years of my life that I have just sat back, closed my eyes, took a nice big breath and just listened to the music, no thoughts no nothing, just Charles playing. At one part I started seeing myself walking the beach alone, just palms, water, sand, blue sky and me. My eyes started watering and I don't know to describe my feelings, happiness or sadness don't know which one is it but it surely felt beautiful.. Everything just stopped for these five minutes and I realized I have to take my time and enjoy things I love.
I sing and play guitar for 5 years now but I have never sat alone in a calm room where its only me and music, now I have realized what I have been missing. Thank you Charles, you taught me an important lesson.
**The fact that this legend played Claire de Lune with his eyes closed is frightening**
@AngryIncredibilis muscle memory is a weird thing 😂
Muscle memory is a strange and wondrous thing. Most of the pieces I've memorized, I did so by playing over and over until one day I discovered I didn't need sheet music for them anymore (as opposed to sitting down and saying, "I am going to commit this piece to memory"). If your muscle memory of the song is good enough, playing with eyes closed enhances the experience and sometimes allows for more expressiveness while playing. Unless you hit a wrong note. Then the spell is broken. 😜
@Andrew Buchan I can already tell you that I don't like you
Video with a piano in it: exists
Simply piano: *its free real estate*
it’s .000037 cent real estate
eat your cereal my guy
My wife walked down the aisle to this song six months ago. The start of the most amazing journey. Thank you for letting me relive that for a few minutes ❤
You have transgender understanding and now realize the feeling of love and respect is all about the way you worded it gave a Sense of direction to your feelings thanks so much for your insight
I'm not completely stressed out and now crying at how chill and relieving and comforting this is, YOU'RE completely stressed out and now crying at how chill and relieving and comforting this is.
Also thank you for this not being Cardi B shouting at me.
Arent we all?
💞💞
You know nothing about classical music
Mild Satire woahhh you know a lot about classical music and you like telling people that they don’t know anything about classical music! Here’s a gold medal! 🏅
Huge. Freaking. MOOD.
Plot twist: this wasn’t a shitpost
My friend and I was talking about this song since the start of quarantine in Malaysia (18/3/2020). This is his favourite song because this song gave him the courage to actually learn up other songs and to push his standard in playing the piano and sight reading. He had asked me for guidance in this beautiful piece of romantic period classical piece and hes still in the process of learning the dark and strong Eb minor part. He had asked me to teach him piano but i told him i didnt have the standard to teach him but i told him that i can guide you in your favourite song. He chose this song and it has been my daily practicing song as well. This video almost made me cry just by how nice it sounded and I just woke up from my sleep (its 10:31am in Penang, Malaysia). I saw this when I switch on my phone and this video was on my recommendations and I just click on it. I didnt regret clicking on it. Its super nice and I believe you've made someone else's day. Great job and thank you sir❤️❤️!!
I don't want to spoil your comment, but this is not a piece 😅
A Bathing Dave
What do you mean this is not a piece?
How can you teach someone how to play piano if you call this absolutely amazing piece a “song”? *gasp*
Dang bro
@@michaelandrews739 ikrrr 🤣
why is there dislikes on this video... he's just helping us vibe
Dylan Drover “some people just want to watch the world burn”
@Perry Shipley lmao
There's something about this song. It just...holds me. Not like a swift grasping of my hand or a clasp on my shoulder but more like a slow comforting hug and a soft voice saying: "You're gonna be okay."
Thank you Charles. Life's been getting a bit out of hand recently and I needed this.
This is genuinely one of the finest recordings of this piece I've ever heard
Corona virus: *Happens*
Me: *Sleeps until 3* *Watches TH-cam all day* *Doesn’t touch a piano for days*
Charles: So anyways I learned Claire de lune, can now play the oboe and have found my passion for lion taming.
Me: Did you know I slept for 17 hours on Saturday. That was fun.
How healthy
I composed an entire alternate version of little drummer boy
Sorry for my inconvenience but what is an oboe?
@@Michaelqqq think of it like the clarinet's cousin and it has two reeds
I’ve never related more to a comment
Screw lofi hip hop I want this. Soft tunes from pigeon man
You have no idea how hard I LOL'd!
Just search for classical music
No words. Just ... “Thanks.”
Thank you for the beautiful song!
Being stuck at home I've come to appreciate TH-cam content even more. Commenting also feels more fun because it reminds me we are all in this together.
thank you this helps more than you know. i have horrid anxiety so this is just what i needed
you're gonna be ok
Daphne Fullerton don’t worry, don’t listen to all that fake stuff they say on public broadcasting, this TH-camr named Doctor Mike has a lot of good true information and made me feel less worried. You’ll get through it, if our great grandparents could get through the Black Death and through WW1/WW2 we can make it through this. Have a nice day and think positively.
A million times better than hearing those self-righteous celebrities singing "Imagine" by John Lennon. Thanks for playing!
Well said!
hey but john mayer killed it tho
ok yeah it’s overrated but i mean you cant deny John being a good musician
@@TheMelodyShawtysLike i think he means the version with all those people who can't sing
Omg I totally forgot about that. That was just embarrassing....
Is no one else going to talk about how his eyes are closed?!?!
muscle memory
If you're playing from memory, it's distracting to look at your hands. I sometimes start watching my hands while they're playing and I'm like "hey, these hands are playing the piano... look at those veins" and then whoosh I'm out of the flow and I forget how to play the piano
@Andrew Buchan took me a second to realize what you said was wrong
@@kaitling6527 they didn't say anything wrong...it the path to ling ling
Andrew Buchan Yeah. Probably practiced with LingLing
this is my favorite piece of classical music. my dad sent me a recording of him playing it for me because i can't visit him right now. he's immunocompromised because of chemo therapy and i haven't heard him play in so long. i got his video yesterday and cried my eyes out. and now you. this is wonderful. thank you so, so, so much. ❤️
This is a romantic era piece, not a classical piece, just letting you know.
Best wishes for your father.
John Shepard
:/
@@MrShagification ever heard of something called a "broader term"? nobody says "romantic era piece". also don't go mansplaining me, i was fucking raised in an opera family lmao
@@shines1397 when people go through royal conservatory training they're usually told to differentiate musical eras, baroque, classical, romantic, modern, etc. I think he was just trying to politely inform you of the fact that it's a romantic piece, so there's no need to be rude
MCVictorious actually, "classical" is mainly the widespread term for pretty much all pre-20th century composition, despite being a specific era itself. "classical" can describe music from renaissance to romantic. pleases educate yourself before spewing out big words to make someone feel stupid online!
p.s. hope this pandemic spares you and your father :)
This is one of the best tempos and dynamics I’ve heard on this piece. THANK YOU.
I’ve been looking for a really good rendition of Claire de Lune for a long time.. Rousseau was pretty damn good. But dammit, the feeling and emotion that you conveyed through this video is just absolutely insane. I don’t think i’ve ever been emotionally fully invested on a video before. Thank you for helping, Charles. Peace from Paris!
Same, I usually only listen to Rousseau, but this version is so good!
You shouls check out the recording that's the most popular on yt. This one sounds very much like that one
Sayonara Wild Hearts?
khatia buniatishvili has an amazing rendition, really emotional and slow, and it's both on TH-cam and Spotify if you're interested
Louis will do!
Here's to all the seniors who had their last day without knowing it
Yes sir...
My Eighth Grade graduation might be cancelled. I know that sounds pretty dumb, but it's important to me. :)
@@lars1588 Nah surely it's important, i mean, you're finishing off the first eight years of schooling to go on to highschool, it's a pretty big leap on to a new medium. I really hope that your graduation doesn't get cancelled.
Yup and there goes that 100 dollars I spent on my senior trip in advance.
Wait I thought you meant like senior citizens 🤣 i was getting sad
can we talk about how he was *closing his eyes* the whole time doing this??? very impressive
Ugh, Charles was playing in his sleep again 😒
He's starting to believe
It’s not that hard to remember a piece. And they aren’t closed. The angle just makes it seem closed
@@fuzzykoala6168 you must be a lot of fun at parties.
@@arthurmarshall9076 I’m the center of attention
2:24 a fairy just replenished my hearts
This piece of music instantly calms me, always has. Recently, with everything going on I feel my heart beating out of my chest but not right now. Right now I can feel that slipping away and my whole body relaxing and my mind emptying of thought.
Beautiful
Nicely written
I can totally relate to this! When I was a baby I would fall asleep to this song every night, so now whenever I need to calm down or fall asleep I just put this on and I’m out.
@CharlesCornell This is one of my favorite songs of all time. Everyone always plays it so fast, you actually played it slow. That's the way it should be played
I was standing over dinner on the stove listening to this, and for the first time since this coronavirus situation started, I cried.
Hajira S. Me too.
yeah it really only hit me yesterday
i’ve had a very hard time sleeping lately. i’m trying every trick in the book and nothing is working. never did i think to come back to piano music. my mom would play her grand piano for me and my brothers nightly when we were kids. youtube rly did me a solid by putting your video right on the front page. thank you for everything you do!
This is a beautiful message ;-;
Me too, except I would listen to classical music on a little radio I had in my room. Claire de lune was actually one I remember listening to quite a bit
This guy didn't compose this piece, and there are *MUCH* better versions of this piece out there.
@@MildSatire im aware of that but there's nothing wrong with complimenting someone's piano skills
there's been so much pain... so much death and loss and loneliness since you posted this at the start of all of this madness and I remember sobbing, so afraid, so lost in darkness. but we're still here and so is this beautiful rendition with such a different meaning now.
Scared ICU RN here... spent the last two nights taking care of a patient that is being tested to rule out COVID-19. I'll probably will have this same patient again tonight. It's only going to get worse, we're going to run out of negative pressure rooms, protective equipment, and ventilators. It's really got me worried.
So... from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you, Charles, for posting this beautiful rendition of Clair de Lune.
Cheers to you for taking care of all these patients, medical staff are really saving humanity
@@elisabethpfeiffer8795 ^^
i will forever appreciate the sacrifices nurses, doctors, and others are making for the sick during this time
I thought id never see that profile picture ever again
moseleych thank you for everything you are doing right now, i know it sometimes can go unappreciated. But thank you for being here during this time to help people.
You have no idea how much we need this, thank you so much.
This is the best interpretation of clair de lune imo. I remember seeing this in the midst of all the chaos at the beginning of 2020, and it really gave me a sense of calm. Hope everyone is doing well
can someone edit out the piano so it’s just Charles moving elegantly while passionately twiddling his fingers into the abyss of nothing EDIT: I mean the actual piano, not the piano track so turning down the volume is not the solution 🤣
Turn your volume down fam
Oh this would be sick. Charlezard, we need to get on this.
Let's Rant xD
Mute it and play spiderman pizza theme behind it
@@letsrant1946 the point is that you can't see the piano
Charles made a *WISE CHOICE*
of playing us an *EPIC* music
by *SLAPPing* the Keyboard, *Ling Ling* approves
This video shows that Charles isn’t just hilarious and really talented. It shows that he’s fucking awesome bro. Like legit awesome
Fact: *this song is the credit scene of covid-19*
after credits: *winnie the poo grabs gauntlet "Finaly! i will doit myself!"
I’m immunocompromised. I’m being told by all my doctors that I have to keep myself quarantined for idk how long. I had to take a leave of absence from my job. I won’t be seeing anyone for a really long time. I’ve been very upset about this all day. This video uploaded just in time. This is my favorite song to hear on piano. It’s been in my life for as long as I can remember. My dad would play it for me all the time when I was younger. Thank you for this one small video. It really means a lot to me right now.
Dude, I hope you're OK. My sister is immunocompromised too and I'm nervous. Be safe, I'm rooting for you!
Hang in there. Wishing you the absolute best
I cried listening to this while reading lovely comments. Thank you. I feel relieved and happy ❤
I'm a simple man, I see Clair De Lune, I click.
I think it's "Clair" not "Claire". Correct me if I'm wrong, tho.
I searched it up to prove you wrong, yet I stand corrected: Suite Bergamasque, L. 75: No. 3, Clair De Lune "Moonlight" (Clair de Lune).
Thank you for encouraging critical thinking, my man.
@@LeafyK well, for one, I love this song so much I listened to it EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. So, I see the title every day and when someone written it different, it's just makes me wonder if I'm wrong all this time. Lol! You are welcome 😊
@Wong Sheung Chak ah, thank youuu for your correction. Yes, I looove this piece sooo much. 😁😁😁
mcglitter07 you should then listen to the Chopin Nocturnes (the first one is very good as a sleeping music :) )
mcglitter07 such a kind discussion...
knowing it is now socially acceptable for me to stay inside all day and binge Charles’s videos makes my heart smile
“The idea that you’re so small compared the rest of the omniverse can be frightening, yet comforting, it just depends on who you are. Some people want to keep exploring, and some people just want out.“
-Frank
Why did I IMMEDIATELY start crying like 4 notes into this???
Falindae that's the effect this song has. truly one of the most beautiful pieces ever written 💖
wish you well in these scary times
Because it's a beautiful piece
Cuz its a beautiful piece.
Also youre a baby **jkjk**
I cried just reading the title. 😂 Clair de Lune has that effect on people.
Falindae ME EVERY TIME I HEAR THIS SONG
Man, I have tried teaching myself Clair de Lune for about a year now. The slow parts are working out just fine, but the arpeggiated parts are a disaster...guess my left hand is just too dumb. Anyway, thanks for that beautiful rendition. Big fan of your channel!
Edit: thank you for all the kind words. Thing is, I am currently preparing to start studying conducting, for which I need a buttload of piano and to be able to read full scores and sightread them is getting me to my limits. Might have panicked a little.
You’ve been trying for a year? Try using both hands for the arpeggios. Use a mix of left and right.
Use two hands for the arpeggios! Makes life a lot easier
you can do it
ive been having the same problem too, im a violinist and can only read treble clef and figuring out the notes is tricky especially with all the flats. the arpeggios always get me :/
Honestly, that's just the way it is; you'll find yourself saying the same thing later when you learn something much more difficult. You just have to keep working, and you'll be amazed with what you can play next!
This song reminds me of pink guy running through the fields
😢
Bruh
Nobody sang. Not a song
The first part is like moonlight trying to break trough dark and big clouds, then down comes the moonlight shining up the road in the middle of the night.
Atta boy Franzy
Especially this part 1:39
Hey Charles. I just wanted to say thank you, all jokes aside. I’ve been having a really tough time mentally as of late and you made me smile with this.
Good luck Jude, get well soon 💛
Kitcat Siguenza Thank you
stay strong man
Robert Bee Thanks buddy :)
Stay strong, I’m praying for you.
Clair de Lune makes me think of time, of life, of the fact that someday I’ll move on, so to speak, but life will go on, time will go on, and despite all of our worries it’ll be okay.
It’s, simply put, in my opinion, the most beautiful work of art ever created, and will never cease to move me.
I don’t really ever comment or “like” things on TH-cam, but that was so good, I feel compelled to do both. Thank you for this, means a lot about now.
These 5 minute were the best part of my day. We all need a little calm in this chaotic world.
2020 is a rough year. I've been through alot of problems. I lost my job, lost my hope, having difficult time for almost everyday. I don't even know why I drop tears while listening this piece.
In New Zealand there's 20 cases of the Coronavirus and our country is quite small. Our schools have not been shut down but it's an extremely close possibility. Stay safe guys.
Kia kaha and chur from NZ👌
Edit: the numbers are rising fast y'all :/
Greetings from Czechia,
we have got 572 cases, our schools are shut down, we can not go outside, if you go to work or shopping you must be covering your face.
Oh, Greetings from Germany. Every school is closed and we still have to write exams... many shops closed too, and, well... It's kinda boring to just stay at home but that's what we should do right now.
Hey from the UK where we have 2626 cases confirmed, they are closing the schools on Friday and shelves are clear because people are hoarding food
PAVLOVA COMES FROM NZ FIGHT ME I live in Norway. We have 1.5k cases, 6 deaths and schools are closed.
Hi from spain, we have 17000 cases now, over half of them are in my city (madrid). Stay home and keep safe everyone 💪
This is one of my favorite songs ever and I definitely started crying as soon as you started playing. Thank you for giving me about 6 minutes of calm.
Imagine this,
a small bus stop, youre waiting for your bus home after being laid off, all you hear is the pitter patter of raindrops hitting your small umbrella.
You reminisce on your day, how awful it had been, but when you reminisce it doesn't feel bad, you don't feel guilty or worry. You don't even feel happiness or joy, all you feel is calmness, stillness in the rain, with no one around to look or talk to.
But as you grow bored waiting, there are puddles just calling to you, you want to jump in. So you do. You laugh and play and then realize it was childish, but you don't care, no one is around after all, so you keep hopping around and playing, which you haven't done in a very long time, your bus arrives.
You greet the driver and he greets you, you take your seat and look outside the foggy window and see the rain again, the drops flowing down upon the glass.
The rain isn't gloomy or sad, but not completely delightful either. You think even more about what had happened just then, as you stood around in rain, hopped through puddles like a child, you forgot you were laid off, the calm rain made the world go still.
For once, you were truly alone, truly at peace, truly a child again. But now you are going home, you aren't sad that it was over, just happy that it happened.
somehow i read this all with visualising this as an anime
crying now, thank you
Underappreciated comment, describes exactly how I feel when I listen to this song
@@EvanGundersen thank you
That was soothing AF. I left the earth for 5 minutes.
Much appreciated Charles, Clair de Lune is a fantastic tune to play for the soundtrack to the dusk of mankind.
This is my dad’s favorite piece, and he and my sister and I are all in the handbell choir my mom directs at church.
So, for my wedding, I had the handbell choir (with subs in for us four) secretly learn this piece. At the ceremony, my husband’s parents and my parents came up to say a prayer over us while the handbells played this piece.
01:06am lying in bed listening and watching this for the second time. Thing is I have this song on Spotify, but it's sounds do much nicer while actually watching you play it. Thank you so much 💕💕💕
k
I feel u
As we look to the incoming storm, we must close our eyes and walk into that howling dark. The storm looks treacherous, but who knows what's on the other side.
Bryce McKenzie if it’s, a hurricane than most likely death, if this is a metaphor, then, umm.. I guess I missed the point and took it way to literally.
Bryce McKenzie i think we’re just waiting for the storm to calm, as we’re already pretty deep in it
Nixe comment !
im 14 and this is deep
Just wanted to say thank you for playing Clair de Lune. I listen to you playing it whenever I struggle to fall asleep so it's really helping. You play it so beautifully and full of emotion. Thank you!
No one is gonna talk about how his eyes were closed? 𝙊𝙠𝙖𝙮
I always wonder how do you play something while eyes closed.
@@rubyjulivre1136 practice makes perfect
After you practice a piece enough, It transfers to your muscle memory. You only have to look at the keys for large jumps or intervals, sometimes not even that.
HuanHuan Dong It's actually not that hard, and something you have to learn if you want to get into higher tier stuff. Especially when actually reading the sheets (which most professionals will do even if memorized, just keeps them on track.), you aren't able to look at your hands in between. Plus it feels nice to play with your eyes closed 😎
@@nobleberg oh i got it. Someone compares it with typing with keyboard.
It’s like he knew that I’ve been trying to learn this song and is just rubbing it in my face
Hey! It took me over a year to learn another song by Debussy called Arabesque 1. Don't you mind about what others can achieve, you just do the best you can. ;)
Thank you so much. Also, I see what did there ;)
You're welcome! 💕And yeah, your name is so perfect and I just couldn't help myself hehe xD
My wife walked the aisle at our wedding to the LXD remix of this song. It holds a special place in my heart. The patience to let it breathe, well done. Thank you.
There are two pieces of classical music which seem to always give me chills: Claire de Lune and Pas de Deux. They both make this feeling appear in my chest...something that feels both incredibly heavy and yet weightless at the same time.
Thank you for this❤
Keke Bell yes this is exactly it. It’s like no other feeling.
That's exactly what i feel the moment i heard this piece last yr agoo❤
For me it's the Lark Ascending, and the 2nd mvt of Ravel's piano concerto in G major... just pure chill-up-the-spine material for me. Definitely worth checking out in a dark room with good headphones. 😁
Wow, those are my favorites too! I feel the exact same
For me it's this one and "Sicilienne" by Faure
Thank you, this is exactly what I need to look out of my round window melodramatically into the dreary, misty, twilight of my street
Thank you Charles. This is the first time I've enjoyed this piece again since the first time I heard it about 25 years ago.
Didn't know that I needed this. Thank you, Jimmy (child, aged 9).
@블링크원스hoho don't they grow up so fast 😢
In this time of loneliness we can still hear a story being told, one of happiness or perhaps of sadness. One of nostalgia of a time where things were easier. Or maybe you weren't listening to the story, instead listening to the softening voice of the one that told you it. In this time of loneliness, we still find music. We still find beauty. We still find hope.
This hit me
That’s deep bro. Really hits different ya know
TNT Tim really love/appreciate comments like this. Thank u
TNT Tim where's the medals at? This dude/dudette deserves some
@@danyolivasl Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.
Charles you are beautiful inside and out. Thank you for sharing your gift.
"Claire de Lune but you're stuck inside and haven't seen the moon in a while and it's beginning to get to you"
Pinky Santibañez too real
I did my best to play along, I’m still learning this song.
Thank you for existing
Yep, he's definetley my new crush
My gosh thank you. I needed this. I enjoy piano music, and this is one of my favourite pieces.
Even after coming back to this four months later, it brings back everything I felt at the time it came out. It’s strange coming back, it feels like a completely different 2020.
every time i hear this, it makes me think back to my childhood days :), really makes me tear up
When i listen to this song, it feels like i'm the only one on this planet, and it just feels like it describes life.... So beautiful and complicated.....
Also i'm italian and i'm living under a lot of stress right now.... This song reminds me about the great experience that life is... I'm scared, everyone is... Stay safe everybody! Charles thank you for this you're so talented! I wish you a lot of happiness❤️
Well everyone's struggling and coping with this... May God bless you all... We're from diffrent countries.... But we're all human beings and nobody deserves this
Stay safe and healthy ❤️
That's exactly what I imagine when I listen to it as well!❤
Gotta love Debussy
So the quarantine has reached many other countries, here in italy it's like living in a surreal atmosphere, stay safe you all guys......
Forza! We will overcome this situation 💛💪🏻
@@aamu3 hey, i just checked your channel, you make really good content but i think that if you would upload full covers either on the guitar or the piano it would be better, anyways thanks for the kind words we all will overcome this!
@@mlggodzilla1567 awww oh my god! Thank you so much for checking out my channel!! Oh okay! That's a good thing to hear 💛 it's very difficult to record a video without mistakes haha that's one of the reasons why they're not full covers 😁
@@aamu3 i feel you on that, when i don't have to record anything my playing is quite smooth, not that i am really good but at least i don't make mistakes, but when i have to record i suddenly get anxious and i even start to forget entire bars.
Stay safe out there. All of you in Italy have my prayers 🙏
charles dunno if ur ever gonna see this
but thanks for trying to make all of ur viewers happy by uploading videos still
i just hope things can go back to normal for everyone :(
Reminding us he’s still an incredible musician who sounds good even without the memes...
ItsLogic idk what you’re talking about because he sounds good with the memes
@@arvinnguyen646 yeah that's what I was gonna say
Arvin Nguyen Yup he does! But he does without as well!
Actually my favorite piano song ever. Thanks man, I teared up a bit. Clair will always soothe our hearts
Not a song bro
It’s a piece not a “song”
@@kendrei Lmao, these non-musicians crack me up
@@fuzzykoala6168 so feisty
@@_itri_4374 just educating
There's this weird magic with classical music that just makes your heart dance.
Nice job Charles.
Ayeeeee....
Thank you so much for this
(Low-key...I was waiting for Cardi's "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah" at some point of this rendition xD)
This music always make me wonder stuff like,"Everything going so fast and wondering about our lives in the future or your in a dream"etc