Wow... I've never heard Claire de Lune played on the harp but it totally works. The dreamlike way Debussy wrote a lot of his music goes really well with the gentle sound of the harp strings. What you've done is added a layer of beauty to an already gorgeous song, bravo...
As a pianist I've been taught that when playing this piece, one should do so as if he was playing the harp, especially when you reach the arpeggios. The harp is a sibling of the piano after all!
That chord at 1:27 is heavenly! Oh, goodness. You play it perfectly. Clockwork precision tempered by delicate passion like a flower trembling as it unfurls!
Claire de Lune will always be a song that makes me emotional but this takes it to a whole other level! This sounds so dreamy and decadent and indulgent it's amazing!
I really must learn to trust you as an artist Amy. I saw the title and thought, "heard this so many times" and I have my favorite recording like everyone else. I don't really have the time to listen to Amy cover this tired old classic. But, as soon as you began to play I was drawn in with refreshed ears. I've never realized the deep sense of longing that you bring out in this piece. I love how you pop the bass notes. Most people play this with an airy ethereal feel but your low notes are the reminder that gravity is holding me to the earth-- though longing to float with the moon I'm frustratingly earthbound. The visuals are great too. I so want to believe those shadows are actually from moonlight, please don't tell me different. :) Thank-you so much for sharing with the world.
This is such a perfect and unique version of Claire de Lune. The tempo you chose was hypnotic, and I could hear each note separately and softly crystalline. I think this might be my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces. ♥
I hope you know how much you help people through your music. I sometimes get really anxious about everything but then a new video pops up on my feed and now I feel better than ever. Keep up the amazing work and know you make a real difference.
@Player Taurine: like many other illnesses, there's a stigma related to anxiety. Good on us for talking about it. I find it uplifting that Amy's music is having a positive impact on anyone, regardless of reason.
It's been a long time since a piece of music made me cry......tonight in Australia we saw the most amazing super-moon - haven't seen anything like it for a decade or more, and so this bought tears to my eyes like no other version of DeBussy has done. THANK YOU!
Possibly the best recording and best recorded version of this piece. Impeccable. Beautiful. Transcendent. I know I'm biased but it really is incredibly moving.
*after watching this* Permanent effect: your skill in playing all stringed instruments has increased by +25 Bonus effect: all instruments you touch will sound like gold : instrument mastery +30 Healers come in all sorts of ways
The reason I come to enjoy every one of your videos is because when I listen to your playing, I'm not just hearing it. I'm feeling it. When music takes your emotions for a ride, you're doing it right. You do it right every time. Please keep them coming. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for playing this. This is one of my two very favourite Debussy compositions. The other being 'La fille aux cheveux de lin' (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair). The piano version of this song is fabulous, but the harp takes it up to another level. You can somewhat visualize the light of the moon in the sound of the harp. You play this so very well with the emotion the piece deserve, it is quite lovely. It is something that can be listened to over and over, and it would be time well spent. I hope, whenever the end comes, that Clair de Lune will be the last thing I will ever hear.
You truly are an angel come down from heaven. I have been listening to Clair De Lune for over 40 years, mostly on piano or on synthesizer. However, you play it so magnificently with such depth of feeling and musical accuracy that I swear Claude Debussy himself originally intended it for the harp . Thank you so much for this spectacularly moving performance of one of my all time favourites.
I guess everyone has their own preference of this work. Note, almost every musician regardless of instrument used, plays Debussy piece slower than he did, between 5-7 minutes. Debussy play this work under 4 minutes. I prefer his tempo. Check out video, Debussy plays Debussy.
I appreciate that you're playing this to your own beat. A song like this isn't supposed to be mechanical. It's telling a story, and the player is making their own when they play it the way they feel it.
Wow! Made my eyes go all watery! Such a beautiful video in every way. Wonderful setting! Without doubt the best recording I've heard of this magical piece. Like you it always makes me quite emotional! It's a such a hard piece, but you play it seemingly effortlessly and with so much emotion. This is true music, it moves people.
Unbelievable. This was mine and my wife's first dance song at our wedding. I wish we had this rendition because it's incredible. What an incredible musician, with such passion and attention for the performance that makes it so moving. Tears in my eyes, damnit
You are the most beautiful player in the universe. The sounds in your fingers are like flowers on the sea. Thank you for these moments with classic and popular music. Congratulations. I'm so glad to ear you. Thank you so much.
Debussy would have changed the recommended instrument to harp if he had youtube, and Amy Turk back then. This is now my favorite version of this song. I love how you kept the innocent, clumsy feeling to the song. Masterfully played. Bravo!
I recently heard it on the piano, but you and your harp sound much better. I see your face of pleasure playing and I love it. The score is not easy to read, but you do not need to read it because you already have it in your soul. Congratulations, I loved your delicate performance. I admire you, by the time and job that you dedicate to music.
Tonight I have discovered a new, true, heart artist - Ms Amy Turk. Beautiful playing. Such hard work and discipline have brought the rest of us much joy. Thank you Amy.
I heard a guitar version of this a minute ago and as exquisitely played as it was, I was convinced only a piano could do it justice. But then I wondered if a harp might do it on its own. And my goodness me. All the sadness, stillness and beauty is here. It's mesmerising.
This made me cry in 30 seconds. Felt like me soul was just taken away to a dream. Felt like you played my heart strings along with the harp's. I feel really touched by this. Thank you 💖.
Like plucking on the strings of my heart 💜, another wonderful and magical performance. Bravo 👏 and a warmest thank you for bringing a moment of exquisite joy into my life. I imagine this is what Heaven and Ecstasy are. Yet another Excellent performance. ❤️🙏
Wonderful interpretation of this piece! The tempo feels like honey and the space you give to each part are like sighs and sweet whispers! Thank you for giving such a delightful moment playing your harp for us.
I really can't keep me from listening to this piece of music repeatedly and at very high volume with my hi-fi ! Your interpretation is so emotional, delicate and powerful at the same time that it blows my mind and give me shivers...thanks for you talent and your generosity! Ciao from Napoli
I just listened to this 3 times in a row. Each time I was moved to near tears at parts. Incredible talent and interpretation. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket made of music. That's the only way I can describe it.
Goosebumps! ..chicken skin! Beyond perfectly beautiful! Always been one of my top favourites...and on the Harp ..the best. Thankyou it presents hours of pure delight and pleasure....
Amy Turk, you're an amazing artist. I can hear your perfectly shaped phrases, astonishing control of dynamics, precise control of fingers strength for the perfect articulation. . You are truly a master of your hard earned craft.
MARAVILLOSO, exquisito... siempre crei que Debussy compuso esta obra Claro de luna pensando en el Arpa y Amy Turk lo ha logrado como nunca. Gracias Amy por haber hecho mi sueño realidad de esa manera.
I'm pretty sure that somebody else said this but I wouldn't mind this being played LIVE at my funeral.. Harp + Clair de Lune = ready for the long "slumber.."
This was probably the best harping of Clair de Lune I have ever heard. Your feeling and sense of expression was so beautiful. Although I play lever harp I hope to one day play it like this. Thank you for sharing it with us.
My all time favorite classical music piece. You played it with such beauty and feeling....I am in tears. Too much beauty to bear. You are proof of the divinity in all of us.
Amy, you truly are one of the "Wonders of the World: Music Edition" (it's a new division I'm starting). Thank you for your wonderful music, BEAUTIFUL performances and artistry, and being a true inspiration to the rest of us harpists.
Sublime. I have heard Claire de Lune in many versions and instruments but this performance of your is bordering to divine , it is because you transmit the Joy and surrendering melancholy and the serenity of the moment. you touch my soul. Thank you
The harp is perfect for Clair de Lune and this lady plays it so well. Back in 1958, my mom had it played at her wedding, then in 1994 my brother and sister-in-law had it played on a harp at their wedding, and now in September 2020 my niece is having it played on a harp on her wedding. It's perfect to have played right before Pachelbel's Canon with the bridesmaids followed by the wedding march...all on a harp! :-)
I have so much respect for people that play the harp. It must be so hard being that graceful yet hitting every note in the most perfect spot. That must take time and endless practice. So much respect.
I had to stop what I was doing... I couldn't move. Someone interrupted me 1 minute to the end and I was so pissed. I was enchanted. Mesmerising... Truly beautiful.
Sounds like a lullaby at first, then grows to become a whole dream.
The shadow in the background is so cool, because you can't really see the strings in the background, so it's like she's playing just air.
I didn't understand what you meant at first but now I see it, yeah pretty cool
Ah, she can manipulate air
Petty trivial details. Watch the music instead
Wow... I've never heard Claire de Lune played on the harp but it totally works. The dreamlike way Debussy wrote a lot of his music goes really well with the gentle sound of the harp strings. What you've done is added a layer of beauty to an already gorgeous song, bravo...
GerryBolger well done, that is so eloquent, I couldn't have said it better.
GerryBolger ehhe everything work on harp actually 😅
As a pianist I've been taught that when playing this piece, one should do so as if he was playing the harp, especially when you reach the arpeggios. The harp is a sibling of the piano after all!
It's not a song
Sure you have ... a piano is just a horizontal harp [;- )
PLUCKING BRILLIANT!
Wowwwww. I didn't know it was even possible, this song is rather difficult even on piano.
@@joeythehat9 get a load of this---th-cam.com/video/0_RnlOWmZD4/w-d-xo.html
Nice pun
Nice pun-
I love your videos, Amy! You are an excelent harpist!
OMG OMG OMG!! VINHETEIROO!!!!
opa vinheteiro você por aqui?
Vai tocar piano cara
Nice to see you drop by to show some love.
LEGEND
That chord at 1:27 is heavenly! Oh, goodness. You play it perfectly. Clockwork precision tempered by delicate passion like a flower trembling as it unfurls!
RebeccaETripp Yes! That was the bit that stood out to me as well!
yes..
Yes ♡♡♡♡
The harp is the perfect instrument for this piece.
Clair de lune.
This is where the dreams come from.
Claire de Lune will always be a song that makes me emotional but this takes it to a whole other level! This sounds so dreamy and decadent and indulgent it's amazing!
I really must learn to trust you as an artist Amy. I saw the title and thought, "heard this so many times" and I have my favorite recording like everyone else. I don't really have the time to listen to Amy cover this tired old classic. But, as soon as you began to play I was drawn in with refreshed ears. I've never realized the deep sense of longing that you bring out in this piece. I love how you pop the bass notes. Most people play this with an airy ethereal feel but your low notes are the reminder that gravity is holding me to the earth-- though longing to float with the moon I'm frustratingly earthbound.
The visuals are great too. I so want to believe those shadows are actually from moonlight, please don't tell me different. :)
Thank-you so much for sharing with the world.
🙄
OneTwentyOver80 honestly same though LMAO
Same me too ♡♡♡♡
@@OneTwentyOver80 Excuse me???
OneTwentyOver80 lmao my thoughts exactly
So good! Another one to enjoy while the wife and I smile and our baby sleeps. I really ought to pay you for babysitting.
CR Brewer Thanks Charles! Happy to do my bit. :)
CR Brewer
Claire de Lune played on harp is without doubt the most beautiful version !
I think the celesta version beats it by a tad bit, but this is extremely beautiful
GORGEOUS . . . heaven will be like that.
Any, you’re a true artist, giving every piece your unique touch. The harp world needs you - I’m so glad the harp is your chosen instrument!
I agree. Fully! Never mind those, who say anything different.
I agree and wonder about the delicacy of her rendition
This song is perfect for the harp!
This is such a perfect and unique version of Claire de Lune. The tempo you chose was hypnotic, and I could hear each note separately and softly crystalline. I think this might be my favorite version of one of my favorite pieces. ♥
i really don't understand how anyone could dislike this, it's just pure bliss and so calming...
I hope you know how much you help people through your music. I sometimes get really anxious about everything but then a new video pops up on my feed and now I feel better than ever. Keep up the amazing work and know you make a real difference.
Alex Jones Thank you so much. I'm glad I can do something to help. :)
Alex Jones Why do you anxious people always feel the need to tell the whole world about it
@Player Taurine: like many other illnesses, there's a stigma related to anxiety. Good on us for talking about it. I find it uplifting that Amy's music is having a positive impact on anyone, regardless of reason.
*+Player Taurine* why do _you_ feel the need to question an irrefutably decent comment at all?
Some people like to say thank you. It costs nothing.
You should try it.
You literally play every note with meaning, it’s incredible... I’m touched, it made me cry
It's been a long time since a piece of music made me cry......tonight in Australia we saw the most amazing super-moon - haven't seen anything like it for a decade or more, and so this bought tears to my eyes like no other version of DeBussy has done. THANK YOU!
What a hidden gem this channel is. Simply breathtaking.
Possibly the best recording and best recorded version of this piece. Impeccable. Beautiful. Transcendent. I know I'm biased but it really is incredibly moving.
Most likely the best "non-lullaby" lullaby ever composed. 💖😊
I couldn't have put it better myself. Every time I listen to this performance it has a profound emotional effect upon me!
Best "goodnight" song ever.
*after watching this*
Permanent effect:
your skill in playing all stringed instruments has increased by +25
Bonus effect: all instruments you touch will sound like gold : instrument mastery +30
Healers come in all sorts of ways
The reason I come to enjoy every one of your videos is because when I listen to your playing, I'm not just hearing it. I'm feeling it. When music takes your emotions for a ride, you're doing it right. You do it right every time. Please keep them coming. Absolutely beautiful!
i've never seen someone nail that many harmonics in a row... wow
beautiful playing!
my favorite song in the universe. you make a whole orchestra on that one harp. joy.
Probably the best portrayal of this piece on harp - great performance, great lighting, balanced audio, and beautiful lady playing it.
Beautiful!
This reminds me of the quote from the Bible...And the Angels walked the Earth.
One of my late mother's favorites as well.
Flawless. It's truly impressive the amount of emotion you can feel from hearing this.
I'm crying and smiling at the same time right now.
Thank you for the calmness in this madness. Keep making beautiful music.
The setting was dark, but the brightness from the sound creates such a beautiful harmonics. Truly inspiring
Thank you for playing this. This is one of my two very favourite Debussy compositions. The other being 'La fille aux cheveux de lin' (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair). The piano version of this song is fabulous, but the harp takes it up to another level. You can somewhat visualize the light of the moon in the sound of the harp. You play this so very well with the emotion the piece deserve, it is quite lovely. It is something that can be listened to over and over, and it would be time well spent. I hope, whenever the end comes, that Clair de Lune will be the last thing I will ever hear.
Yes you are right, the clang of the harp can better describe the moonlight beautifully ...
I love 'La fille aux cheveux de lin' as well. Both these pieces played on the harp are divine
The 'harmonic' octaves on the intro are such a beautiful prelude to the crisp rendition...this is the one!🥰
i'm shaking, she's so good i can't breathe
A few notes in, and I knew I'd love how this would work with harp.
You truly are an angel come down from heaven. I have been listening to Clair De Lune for over 40 years, mostly on piano or on synthesizer. However, you play it so magnificently with such depth of feeling and musical accuracy that I swear Claude Debussy himself originally intended it for the harp . Thank you so much for this spectacularly moving performance of one of my all time favourites.
I guess everyone has their own preference of this work. Note, almost every musician regardless of instrument used, plays Debussy piece slower than he did, between 5-7 minutes. Debussy play this work under 4 minutes. I prefer his tempo. Check out video, Debussy plays Debussy.
The tempo is superb. Bravo!
Couldn't agree more
Exactly
Stunning performance. Clair De Lune was MADE for harp
I appreciate that you're playing this to your own beat. A song like this isn't supposed to be mechanical. It's telling a story, and the player is making their own when they play it the way they feel it.
Wow! Made my eyes go all watery! Such a beautiful video in every way. Wonderful setting! Without doubt the best recording I've heard of this magical piece. Like you it always makes me quite emotional! It's a such a hard piece, but you play it seemingly effortlessly and with so much emotion. This is true music, it moves people.
Unbelievable.
This was mine and my wife's first dance song at our wedding. I wish we had this rendition because it's incredible.
What an incredible musician, with such passion and attention for the performance that makes it so moving. Tears in my eyes, damnit
You are the most beautiful player in the universe. The sounds in your fingers are like flowers on the sea. Thank you for these moments with classic and popular music. Congratulations. I'm so glad to ear you. Thank you so much.
Debussy would have changed the recommended instrument to harp if he had youtube, and Amy Turk back then. This is now my favorite version of this song. I love how you kept the innocent, clumsy feeling to the song. Masterfully played. Bravo!
@@jeremiah3355 only you can prevent swypeos
I never tought I would lose track of time seeing/hearing harp videos for so long.. the amount of work you must have put onto that harp.. Beautiful!
It is the best thing I have heard since a long time.
I recently heard it on the piano, but you and your harp sound much better. I see your face of pleasure playing and I love it. The score is not easy to read, but you do not need to read it because you already have it in your soul. Congratulations, I loved your delicate performance.
I admire you, by the time and job that you dedicate to music.
Tonight I have discovered a new, true, heart artist - Ms Amy Turk. Beautiful playing. Such hard work and discipline have brought the rest of us much joy. Thank you Amy.
This was just absolutely mindblowing, such an incredible performance!
I heard a guitar version of this a minute ago and as exquisitely played as it was, I was convinced only a piano could do it justice. But then I wondered if a harp might do it on its own. And my goodness me. All the sadness, stillness and beauty is here. It's mesmerising.
Outstanding - Beautiful - Thank you.
This made me cry in 30 seconds. Felt like me soul was just taken away to a dream. Felt like you played my heart strings along with the harp's. I feel really touched by this. Thank you 💖.
Mesmerisingly beautiful
Fantastic version !!!! Best ever !!!! Pure Perfection !!!!! This is how to play music the right way with heart and soul !!!!
This song is what loving/liking someone who you know doesn't like you back sounds like.
This gave me a beautiful warm feeling, contentment, joy, peace, like everything is right in the world. Thank you for the beautiful music!
It's like you're not even humannnn 😮 Are you an angel?
They live on the moons of Iego, I think.
Omg this actually made me cry. Magnificent!
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Pedro Oliveira what's this?
I see mothers with their newborns when I close my eyes and listen.....wow animal Moms and human ones too. This is some healing music Amy! thank you
😯😯😯😯
😍😍😍😍
Unbelievably brilliant
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Like plucking on the strings of my heart 💜, another wonderful and magical performance. Bravo 👏 and a warmest thank you for bringing a moment of exquisite joy into my life. I imagine this is what Heaven and Ecstasy are. Yet another Excellent performance. ❤️🙏
jeez I'm having trouble finding the subscribe button behind these tears.
Wonderful interpretation of this piece! The tempo feels like honey and the space you give to each part are like sighs and sweet whispers! Thank you for giving such a delightful moment playing your harp for us.
I really can't keep me from listening to this piece of music repeatedly and at very high volume with my hi-fi ! Your interpretation is so emotional, delicate and powerful at the same time that it blows my mind and give me shivers...thanks for you talent and your generosity! Ciao from Napoli
I want a hi-fi… not for bombing bass, but for those kind of music.
Magnificent! ...as usual ;-)
Kudos to the video crew, too. The shadows really played well into this.
Cheers!
Wow.... Standing ovation...
The passion in that that strum
I could feel the strings in my soul
Lovely, Amy. I love Debussy. Have you considered doing some Satie pieces?
Yes I would also like to hear some Satie pieces
I'm a huge Claude Debussy fan, and this rendition is exquisite. Brought me to tears, actually.
One of my favorites. Works so well on the harp. Simply beautiful. 🙏
Id never heard this marvelous song played on the harp. Its perfect, i love♥
I just listened to this 3 times in a row. Each time I was moved to near tears at parts. Incredible talent and interpretation. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket made of music. That's the only way I can describe it.
Goosebumps! ..chicken skin! Beyond perfectly beautiful! Always been one of my top favourites...and on the Harp ..the best. Thankyou it presents hours of pure delight and pleasure....
Nobody's even close..
A league of your own .
Amy Turk, you're an amazing artist. I can hear your perfectly shaped phrases, astonishing control of dynamics, precise control of fingers strength for the perfect articulation. . You are truly a master of your hard earned craft.
Breathtakingly beautiful. Impeccable timing and grace. Bravo!
Magnificent. Performed with mastery.
MARAVILLOSO, exquisito... siempre crei que Debussy compuso esta obra Claro de luna pensando en el Arpa y Amy Turk lo ha logrado como nunca. Gracias Amy por haber hecho mi sueño realidad de esa manera.
To fall asleep at the "moonlight" in a moment of grace with a fairy who plays the harp 💖
I'm pretty sure that somebody else said this but I wouldn't mind this being played LIVE at my funeral.. Harp + Clair de Lune = ready for the long "slumber.."
This was probably the best harping of Clair de Lune I have ever heard. Your feeling and sense of expression was so beautiful. Although I play lever harp I hope to one day play it like this. Thank you for sharing it with us.
My all time favorite classical music piece. You played it with such beauty and feeling....I am in tears.
Too much beauty to bear. You are proof of the divinity in all of us.
Amy, you truly are one of the "Wonders of the World: Music Edition" (it's a new division I'm starting). Thank you for your wonderful music, BEAUTIFUL performances and artistry, and being a true inspiration to the rest of us harpists.
What an amazing rendition of this lovely piece from Debussy! You're a fabulous harp player
Always love to see and hear Amy❤️ playing her harp. You can see the love she has for her instrument and it shows in her playing.
I haven’t cried this hard over a piece for a long time. thank you for this post
Sublime. I have heard Claire de Lune in many versions and instruments but this performance of your is bordering to divine , it is because you transmit the Joy and surrendering melancholy and the serenity of the moment. you touch my soul. Thank you
This is beyond beautiful
The harp is perfect for Clair de Lune and this lady plays it so well. Back in 1958, my mom had it played at her wedding, then in 1994 my brother and sister-in-law had it played on a harp at their wedding, and now in September 2020 my niece is having it played on a harp on her wedding. It's perfect to have played right before Pachelbel's Canon with the bridesmaids followed by the wedding march...all on a harp! :-)
WOW! BEAUTIFUL! Thank you for that BLESSING to my ears!
this song is my childhood, hearing it on such a wonderful instrument makes me so happy
I have so much respect for people that play the harp. It must be so hard being that graceful yet hitting every note in the most perfect spot. That must take time and endless practice. So much respect.
I just imagined myself dancing to this and it was majestic
by far the best interpretation I've heard. I've never heard it played perfectly before
Chills.... As better as on piano. Excellent playing.
One of the best harp arrangements I have seen for this piece Im impressed with your musicality
Appause. Outstanding performance, and Claire de Lune seems to work beautifully on the Harp, but it makes sense really. thank you
Not even a fan of the Harp, yet here I am. Now I'm subbed and binge watching your videos ;)
I had to stop what I was doing... I couldn't move. Someone interrupted me 1 minute to the end and I was so pissed. I was enchanted. Mesmerising... Truly beautiful.
Perfectly beautiful!
Those pianissimo parts towards the end
Such beautiful sounds, wonderful control.. They set the hear at ease like nothing else.