Claude Debussy plays Debussy | Clair de Lune | Préludes | Images | Estampes | Arabesques | Rêverie
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- Claude Debussy plays Debussy | Complete recordings made by Claude Debussy: The Composer as Pianist. Compilation from all Debussy recordings available "Claude Debussy Plays His Finest Works" (1904-1913).
I Claude Debussy plays Debussy (Piano Rolls, before 1913):
Préludes for piano, Book I, L. 125 (117)
00:00 1. No. 1 Danseuses de Delphes (Dancers of Delphi). Lent et grave [1907-10]
3:00 2. No. 3 Le vent dans la plaine (The wind on the plain). Animé
5:00 3. No.10 La cathedrale engloutie (The sunken cathedral). Profondément calme
10:39 4. No. 11 La danse de Puck (Dance of Puck). Capricieux et légere
13:04 5. No. 12 Minstrels. Modéré
14:50 Children's Corner (Le Coin des Enfants), suite for piano, L. 119 (113) [1906]
6. Docteur Gradus ad Parnassum. Modérément animé
7. Jumbo's Lullaby (Berceuse des éléphants). Assez modéré
8. Serenade for the Doll (Sérénade à la poupée). Allegretto ma non troppo
9. The Snow is Dancing (La Neige Danse). Modérément animé
10. The Little Shepherd (Le Petit Berger). Très modéré
11. Golliwogg's Cakewalk (La Marche de la poupée de chiffon). Allegro giusto)
27:22 12. D'un Cahier D'Esquisses (From A Sketchbook), for piano, L. 112 (99) [1903]
31:45 13. La Plus que Lente (A Slow Waltz), waltz for piano, L. 128 (121) [1910]
35:18 14. Estampes, for piano, L. 108 (100), No. 2 La Soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Granada). Mouvement de Habañera [1903]
40:23 15. Estampes, for piano, L. 108 (100), No. 3 Jardins sous la pluie. Net et vif (Gardens in the Rain) [1903]
43:52 16. Préludes for piano, Book I, L. 125 (117), No. 8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (Girl with the flaxen hair). Très calme et doucement expressif
46:05 17. Préludes for piano, Book II, L. 131 (123), No. 3 La Puerta del Vino (The Gateway of the Alhambra Palace). Mouvement de habanera [1910-12]
49:54 18. Arabesques for piano, L. 74 (66), No. 1 in E major. Andantino con moto [1888]
53:59 19. Arabesques for piano, L. 74 (66), No. 2 in G major. Allegretto scherzando [1891]
56:51 20. Préludes for piano, Book I, L. 125 (117), No.2 Voiles (Sails). Modéré
59:34 21. Clair de Lune, for piano (Mondglanz, Mondschein, Moonlight), Suite Bergamasque No. 3, L. 82/3 (75/3) [1890-1905]
1:03:17 22. Rêverie, for piano, L. 76 (68) [1890]
1:08:24 23. Images, for piano, Set II, L. 120 (111), No. 3 Poissons d'or (Goldfish). Animé [1907]
1:11:24 24. Images, for piano, Set I, L. 105 (110), No. 1 Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water). Andantino molto [1905]
II. Claude Debussy with Mary Garden, soprano:
Ariettes oubliées, song cycle for voice & piano, L. 63 (60) [1885-87]
1:17:25 25. No. 2 Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville
1:19:40 26. No. 3 L'ombre des arbes dans la rivière embrumée
1:22:06 27. No. 5 Green (Aquarelles 1)
Pelléas et Mélisande, Opera in 5 acts, L. 93 (88) [1893-1902]
1:23:48 28. Act III - Mes Longs cheveux [Mary Garden as Mélisande]
1:25:38 29. Interview with Mary Garden about Claude Debussy. - เพลง
To those here who think Debussy's sense of rhythm is a bit unhinged: This is solo piano. The pianist rules sovereignly. There is no need for a sense of rhythm here, as you have no one else to follow. What you need is a sense of timing - and timing in some sense goes against rhythm. Timing means that you can expand and compress the flow and let the music breathe organically, so that it becomes alive and akin to a natural speech or mental process. Playing such music like Glenn Gould would be to totally miss the etos of the style. It is just like how a text comes alive when recited by an actor who knows the art of intonation and timing.
Debussy is by far the best Debussy interpreter. These recordings are an eye opener.
this deserves a million more likes
I love that humans leave beautiful traces of themselves.
Some humans do ... others might not - and some leave only destruction. Clair de Lune is my absolute favorite piece of music - something about it touches somewhere deep in my Being.
Yeah to bad Debussy was an asshole.
@@Obiwannabe Why? What did he do?
Obiwannabe you know nothing about how he lived or what people said about him clearly
@@Obiwannabe Ravel was a jerk as well
I feel so honored for hearing Debussy play
Me2, if only i could have met him. People with this amount of genius and creativity in them are limitlessly inspiring to me. For me, perhaps, one of the 'signs' there's more to life than meets the eye. What Debussy created is divine.
@@williampuchot1651 LOL LEARN HOW TO SHUT UP
@@williampuchot1651 why so toxic bro? Not everyone can speak fluent english
@@williampuchot1651 Damn...you must have a rotten personality, can't really blame you for being toxic under those circumstances 🤷
@@williampuchot1651 Dude you are the worst type of person, be kind to ppl. Not everyone is good at english
Debussy's sense of rhythm was absolutely mad
As in, not pleasurable to listen to anymore?
He was an artist first, a technician second. A free spirit, free to hear the music of the spheres and free to interpret time as he saw fit. My greatest complaint of interpreters of his works is that they adhere far too strictly to metronomic meter which isn't the way the music appeared to Debussy. His music should flow through you like a living breeze, not necessarily march lock-step like a dead gear.
Rishard Lampese Agreed but his own playing doesn’t exactly flow like a breeze
This is NOT Debussy's sense of rhythm. This is the erratic way a piano roll records.
@@ClassicalSoundIdeal no it's really his playing style
The way he plays Clair De Lune highlights parts that I never focussed on before.
It’s not him playing that one
I love the way he fragments the tempo. It sounds like he is talking to us very intimately.
I LOVE these piano-roll recordings of his, and how they've been reproduced here. They're audio windows into a past we cannot possibly experience more vividly than this -- the master's own hands and feet expressing his musical thoughts right in front of us! One can almost see him lean into the music and then rock back away from it there on the bench. Ebbing, flowing, rising, falling, pausing, continuing. It is perfect.
Something interesting and a little sad to know about Claude Debussy: Only a fraction of his compositions are available to us today. He was a master improviser who would give concerts consisting mostly of one-off compositions for which there was never any written music. It just came out of him spontaneously, was enjoyed by his audience, and then was gone forever. He bothered to write down perhaps 10% or fewer of his musical ideas on paper. I think we're quite fortunate to have even that much.
I didn't know that, but I'm not surprised. I always suspected he was a jazz musician before his time.
alright bob
Sir, i actually think this are legit Debussy playing piano recordings, not piano roll...
@@javierdiazsantana -- Debussy used a reproducing piano. That is a special kind of pianola that recorded every nuance of the performance including dynamics and pedals. It cut the paper roll in real-time. It was a much more sophisticated kind of piano roll that is NOT compatible with the player pianos with which most people are familiar today. To be clear, it did not record audio but rather the performance. Today's equivalent technology would be a MIDI track.
www.min-on.org/the-welt-mignon-reproducing-piano/
@@ConwayBob Oh really? I thought they were actual recordings since the dynamic peaks are very natural sounding and very pronounced... Now i see.
the way debussy plays feels like the wind, you want it to blow a certain way and it wont, you have let it flow through you to appreciate it
beautiful comment
couldn’t have said it better myself
Debussy being triggered in his grave
"How dare you insult my rhythms" 😂
Jkjk
I infinitely appreciate that this playlist does not start with Clair de Lune
This is truly revealing. The plasticity of Debussy's timing - which many are commenting on below - is really making the music so much more organic and natural - like the flow of human speech or thought. I wonder if this was a common style of his time and earlier? It just seems like the right way to play - in particular Debussy. You cannot play it like a clockwork. I can't help thinking how it it just adds to the whole notion of Debussy being one of the forerunners of the birth of jazz and improvisational music.
The crazy thing is that no one would be able to get away with playing like that today. You would fail at a conservatory exam
Indeed. And, yet this interpretation is so imbued with all kinds of thoughts and feelings. The more I listen to it, the deeper I'm moved!
He had problems in conservatory, where the conservative teachers hated him....
That rêverie at 1:03:17 is everything.
I'm surprised a lot of people don't know this but in the 1800-1900s the pianist used to fragment and misplace the tempo on purpose. It sounds more beautiful and meaningful when you fragment, many people don't like it but I love it. Nowadays we sound more robotic in the way we play and debussy made each piece very personal and thoughtful. Even in the end interview the lady says to play it his way and no other way. You can also see fragmenting in the Grieg plays Grieg To Spring.
This is maybe the most beautiful playing ive heard for that exact reason. It flows like life itself.
A valuable comment. Debussy can play with the rhythmic fragmenting - rubato - because in the 19th century, composers and pianists weren't concerned about using a metronome to get a clock work rhythm as contemporary musicians are. Chopin was famous for this kind of playing and it was passed on.
What you are saying is true. However, when it comes to piano rolls, we have a distorting effect: the way piano rolls work. They can never capture or reproduce rhythm very accurately. If you understand how a piano roll works, a good analogue would be a script written on an old typewriter. Letters are never perfectly aligned.
Back when I was starting to play (at around 12 years old) I somehow already felt this because my teacher always chided me for rubato, whereas I always thought, how can you not slow down and let this passage sing?
Rubato is the term. It's not that common beyond pedantic or novice playing, but it's definately around and appreciated. I agree that these days performance has become less of an art and it resembles more of a competitive sport, where precision and a pretense of some kind of authenticity for the works of long dead deified/dehumanized artists like Debussy are now rendered by pianists who unlike in recent history, normally don't even compose anything of their own. For starters there are more appropriate endeavors to exercise precision, and I think music isn't one of the things that should top such a list. It's probably due to the influence of academia and/or charities being the only thing left mostly keeping it alive, when we've already had hundreds of quality recordings made of any classical standard by now and the genre's status in the music industry continuously weakens. I've heard it said alot about Beethoven that the piano sonata reached it's peak with him, and that's the simple reason why we have no more. Well, the music industry is a macrocosm of that; classical piano is a very mature art form and is a tough act for anyone to follow.
01:17:25
Its unbelievable that we're listening to a song recorded more than 100 years ago.
Amazing.
piece*
Vivace Allegro It is a song cycle, therefore correct to call it a song. Though not incorrect to call it a piece, since it is a piece of music, going around correcting people on terminology that is not necessary doesn’t make you look intelligent or superior. It sounds pretentious.
@@chasefailing960 It's probably because he has been watching twoset too much recently, and has been trying to imitate twoset, but doesn't understand how to do it properly
The way he plays those notes fast has those glittery effect in my ears. It's simply wonderful.
Yes I seem to recall reading somewhere that people who heard him play when he was alive noted this.
wow. this is one of the first piano legends to ever be recorded. we are so lucky to be able to hear his interpretation of his songs. its like god returning to reveal the one true religion
Im so happy they recorded these songs on rolls, probably the closest to Debussy we will hear.
An acoustic recording exists of him from... I believe it was 1904. Look up Debussy and Mary Garden on TH-cam. :)
I believe this is an acoustic recording, though there are piano roll recordings of him available.
i blieve these are acoustic recordings
The description states that these are piano roll recordings. Meaning they're most likely electrical recordings. The sound is too clean, bright, and pitch accurate to be an acoustic, or even a restored acoustic recording. If you want to listen to a true acoustic recording of Debussy, check out my previous comment. :)
@@caelumblanco7004 If you go to another video put out by this channel, it links to this video as though this was at least in part acoustic. That video is entitled, "Debussy Plays Debussy | Clair de Lune (1913)". I personally thought some of this video was a bit fuzzy if that makes sense, but I'm no expert.
Some of his best known pieces:
49:54 Arabesque No. 1
53:59 Arabesque No. 2
59:34 Clair de lune
1:03:17 Rêverie
1:11:24 Reflets dans l'eau
Merci beaucoup !
god bless you
My god his Arabesque interpretation is absolutely horrible. The worst rendition I have ever heard.
Possibly the Arabesque is 'horrible' because it's not Debussy. He didn't make piano rolls of the Arabesques (or Clair de lune, for that matter).
@@davidwyatt850 Oh, I knew that. But that interpretation is horrible.
His Claire de Lune is so, so different than what I'm used to, but for some reason, I found it shockingly moving and even more beautiful than most modern interpretations
for me it's the opposite. 🙈 But of course, it's a privilege that we can listen to the master's own hands. That's what's important.
I agree with you. Lot´s of listeners forgett that this is "recorded" 100 years ago. How to play, timing and so on was totally different to todays playing and timing of music. Listen to records from the 1900s and 1910s and 1920ies and compare them with todays interpretations of music than you hear the changing. In my 20ies there was the question of how original is the music played "today" to the days writen and played than.
The same is true of the Première Arabesque -- no other pianist plays with the "separation" of hands and elastic phrasing that Debussy employs here -- this is why we say he anticipates jazz.
There is something misleading about the title of this video. Remember: the composer died in 1918! These high quality recordings can simply not be of the "master" himself. There are a few items in this playlist that I assume date back to then, such as in the section "II. Claude Debussy with Mary Garden, soprano". You can hear it in the distorted, scratchy recording.
@@moshKrug Unlike the Mary Garden disks, these aren't acoustic recordings but highly sophisticated "reproduction" piano rolls. How the transfer process to digital audio works I don't really understand, but it has been applied to rolls created by other composers: Grieg, Scriabin, Fauré, Mahler, et al.
I came here often to listen to Debussy play his own pieces, which is a rare treat for most classical music. I was blown away the first time I heard him play. It's so different from anybody else's interpretation, especially the pieces I'm more familiar with (and can personally play, like Claire de Lune, Arabesque 1, Reverie). His rhythm is so erratic. Completely madhouse (in a good way)! Still can't get over it!
my top faves as well
This teaches us that the score is used to preserve one's music and not to give indications on how to play it because music is a superior form of communication and does not need to be played in time
Debussy himself playing Claire de Lune. wow!
His Clair de lune sounds more like running/prancing in the moonlight compared to today's more calmer interpretations. I think I like it a lot more.
I like his "rhythm", it's turbulent and tangled like nature, yet recognizably beautiful.
there’s so much power and emotion when the composer plays their own pieces
I know that there are many great modern pianists, but Debussy really plays his compositions with much more interesting dynamics, tempo and coherence, pure expression. Many after him have idealized the pieces and how it should be played. This is the definitive canon. Nobody can know better than the composer, the music that came from his inner soul.
this is pure sheet ma dude. u mad? theres no rythm, nothing. dude's playing is trash.
Everyway of playing the pieces is respectable. And we are lucky to have many choices to find our favorites
We don't know either if he would play the pieces differently depending of his mood at different times. So, I don't care about canon, it's just great having the opportunity to listen to Debussy playing
It would have never occurred to me to expect playing his pieces in the jazz style as he does. Great surprise and even greater pleasure.🤗💖
The composer creates. Everyone else interprets. This is absolutely amazing and far better than any pianist I ever heard play Debussy.
I think modern pianists did the piece more justice and I'm sure Debussy himself would agree, think of how much interpretations of this piece can evolve in 100 years? After hearing today's playing this sounds rushed and more like a show off of ability than a tender, hopeful song. But maybe I'm just used to today
agree
Because it’s debussy.
lol this playing is pure shit dude. it is a student's recording from 1988, LOL.
Perfectly stated.
Thank you so much for posting this, I find this tremendously informative. It is a rare opportunity to learn his works "from him." I am a harpist, and I have usually heard Arabesque played a certain way. Salzedo's harp arrangement is very true to the original piano score, (I go back to the piano original when I am playing transcriptions...) it is all there. But what I hear in this recording is that Debussy did not fully notate things the way he played them. I hear this also in Clair de Lune, Reverie, Girl with the Flaxen Hair, Reflets dans L'eau... these very wide disparities of tempo and of volume... much is not noted in the music. So it seems that several generations have learned and recorded these works from the score... being faithful to the score. (Perhaps at the time he did not feel there was a way to notate exactly what he wanted? Perhaps he wanted to leave the score more spare and let the performer "play?") There is a reason that Conservatories make note of a pianist who studied with a certain composer to learn that composer's interpretation, so that the composer's ideas beyond the score are not lost. Debussy did things differently and fresh - as the person mentioned "fracturing"... although it is not in the score, it makes TOTAL sense when you hear him play it, and it has been a revelation and inspiration for me to revise my interpretation to be much more like his. I work with many modern composers, and I either ask or get a sense …. some want me to be very strict with their score, others welcome hearing "what I do with it." But I aim to be "pure" and to work with the composer, to have the composer's interpretation. Priceless.
He knew how to express those atmospheric qualities.
The ending of Clair de Lune makes more sense the way he plays. Generally its played slower so It feels like the player is stretching the end too much. The way he plays feels more organic to me .
Yes, the whole piece makes more sense. When he plays it, it's not a piece, it's a painting/story/piece of a full moon, dark night by the lake, with clouds partly clearing up. It's fantastic, as are many of his other own recordings.
it has a more upbeat, jazz feel to it
Modern music practice has tended toward losing the ability to link thoughts and ideas together coherently and organically in favour of fetishizing the sounds of single notes and more-or-less feigned emotional intensity of the performance. So good to hear other people noticing this!
Check on sansom François's recording, basicly the same angle of interpretation but much clearly although somehow debussy finds places to put ridiculously mooving nuances
Amazing. Absolutely amazing. It's incredible to hear how he intended the pieces to be played.
How did I not find this before. Am obsessed always thinking how the composers made their work sound. Especially a fan of Achille Claude....THANK YOU POSTER.
Wow...his playing is so different from what I'd imagine it to be...it's still so beautiful. Although it's radically different, slightly more abrupt, and choppier from how most people play it, some parts sound so watery and show how Debussy was truly a genius of a composer who poured 😉his heart and interpretation into his music.
The more you listen the better you like his interpretation
I also was confused at first but now it seems so unique and magnifique
The clarity of the recording is just wonderful. I particularly liked the way he performs Reflets dans l'eau, where he uses the pedals to very great effect -- it's really quite unlike any other performance of the piece I've ever heard, and it's quite revelatory.
1:03:17 22. Rêverie : the beginning is incredibly moving. This piece is so famous, we heard it so many times, so many boring times...
Yet, the way Debussy plays it, well... just moves to tears.
That’s not Debussy playing. He never recorded this piece
@@TheLifeisgood72 how are you sure?
A feast for the senses hearing Debussy doing Debussy!
There you go:
00:00
Danseuses de Delphes (Dancers of Delphi). Lent et grave [1907-10]
3:00
Le vent dans la plaine (The wind on the plain). Animé
5:00
La cathedrale engloutie (The sunken cathedral). Profondément calme
10:39
La danse de Puck (Dance of Puck). Capricieux et légère
13:04
Minstrels. Modéré
Children's Corner (Le Coin des Enfants) [1906] :
14:50
Docteur Gradus ad Parnassum. Modérément animé
16:28
Jumbo's Lullaby (Berceuse des éléphants). Assez modéré
19:20
Serenade for the Doll (Sérénade à la poupée). Allegretto ma non troppo
20:57
The Snow is Dancing (La Neige Danse). Modérément animé
22:58
The Little Shepherd (Le Petit Berger). Très modéré
24:39
Golliwogg's Cakewalk (La Marche de la poupée de chiffon). Allegro giusto)
27:22
D'un Cahier D'Esquisses (From A Sketchbook), [1903]
31:45
La Plus que Lente (A Slow Waltz), waltz [1910]
35:18
Estampes, No. 2 La Soirée dans Grenade (Evening in Granada). Mouvement de Habañera [1903]
40:23
Estampes, No. 3 Jardins sous la pluie. Net et vif (Gardens in the Rain) [1903]
43:52
Préludes, Book I No. 8 La fille aux cheveux de lin (Girl with the flaxen hair). Très calme et doucement expressif
46:05
Préludes, Book II No. 3 La Puerta del Vino (The Gateway of the Alhambra Palace). Habanera [1910-12]
49:54
Arabesques, No. 1 in E major. Andantino con moto [1888]
53:59
Arabesques, No. 2 in G major. Allegretto scherzando [1891]
56:51
Préludes, Book I, No.2 Voiles (Sails). Modéré
59:34
Clair de Lune, (Mondglanz, Mondschein, Moonlight), Suite Bergamasque No. 3, [1890-1905]
1:03:17
Rêverie [1890]
1:08:24
Images, Set II, No. 3 Poissons d'or (Goldfish). Animé [1907]
1:11:24
Images, Set I, No. 1 Reflets dans l'eau (Reflections in the Water). Andantino molto [1905]
II. Claude Debussy with Mary Garden, soprano: Ariettes oubliées, song cycle for voice & piano [1885-87] :
1:17:25
No. 2 Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville
1:19:40
No. 3 L'ombre des arbes dans la rivière embrumée
1:22:06
No. 5 Green (Aquarelles 1) Pelléas et Mélisande, Opera in 5 acts [1893-1902]
1:23:48
Act III - Mes Longs cheveux [Mary Garden as Mélisande]
1:25:38
Interview with Mary Garden about Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy ne m'a jamais quitté depuis plus d'un demi-siècle. La beauté de sa musique est insurpassable, transcende les époques et fait partie du patrimoine de l'humanité. Merci pour cette vidéo.
clair de lune starts at 59:34
lol this is what we came for
Thanks m8
Thank you.
reverie is much better
cheers, thank you very much:)
My very favourite composer. Wonderful to hear him play. More than 100 years ago!
To those saying this sounds "weird", please consider that it does matter that this is a piano roll recording. Recently, we had the chance to listen to an original Player Piano playing an original piano roll at a museum. I'm not an expert so I just presume it has to do with the mechanism that some parts of the piece we listened to flowed as you would expect, while other parts suddenly sounded sloppy and overlaying and I don't think this is a matter of how they used to play. Plus, you can set the tempo at which you want the piece to be played.
I'm still astounded that some people say that he plays his pieces wrongly or not as they should be played. I mean, everywhere throughout music performance practice you hear people say how important it is to follow what the composer intended, especially with historical performance practice. Of course you are still allowed to incorporate your own ideas and prefer some interpretations over others, but now that we have a source of the composers playing (even if the source might not be accurate) and playing it how he may heard it in his mind, we have people look down on it. But hey! Think about that it might only be because your ears are accustomed to hear it played differently ;)
I'm pretty sure the erratic/choppy nature of the tempos in these recordings is due to mechanical error. Of course, maybe he was just a crazy Frenchman... I love Debussy's music so much but the erratic tempos are driving me crazy and I would not want to listen to most of these again.
Oh! how bbbbbbbbbbeautiful Debussy it is ! I was astonished at his ppppppplaying piano instrument, sound is ssssso
juicy. this is the my first time to listening Debussy.
Just to alert anyone writing assignments! Tracks 15 to 24 are not Debussy; he never recorded these pieces. Piano roll specialists may be able to identify them. Only the songs at the end are audio recordings of the original sound. The piano rolls (1 to 14) replay, on a different piano, the mechanical data captured by the Welte system when Debussy recorded these rolls (in summer 1912; 1913 is when they were issued).
Big fan of your work and I wouldn't ever doubt your authority, but I hard to find to believe that another pianist would dare to play something like the "Jardins sous la pluie" with the same fluidity of articulation as the Doctor Gradus, or with chord rolling as liberal as in Le Cathedrale. However, the thing in the playing that really strikes me as uniquely Debussy is the balancing: the way he allows the overtones to effuse from a soft bass, which immediately defines his "Beau soir"; and particularly how the melody is allowed to be heard be without being "brought out", which we both know was something he had stressed on multiple occasions. I don't think I've heard another pianist who had the courage and skill to pull that off. If they're really not by Debussy then they're the best fakes I've ever heard haha, and I'd really like to know who was behind them. Thanks in advance(!)
The most poetic and beautiful playing i have ever heard.Flows like life itself.Astonishing.
1:11:24
I am not sure if anybody is ever going to read this, but I’m writing this for myself.
In my opinion the first image at 1:11:24 is Debussy’s most incredible and underrated works. Not many people have noticed this image and it makes me wonder why. With all the fantasies in it that some other works might not have in them. In my opinion nothing can top that. Maybe, I’m just a fourteen year old who doesn’t understand anything of what he is saying but, I love Debussy with all my heart. I have a very social life and I’m very open and alive, but I have this other side of Debussy and also ravel that I keep all for myself. Music especially of this type makes you think, about life and everything in general, and it is just incredible what it can do to you. I hope everyone in this world is or will experience it. ❤️
This is beautiful. :)
Dumus Dang, you really took out all the wholesomeness of the situation...
I kinda did didn’t I?
Dumus That's fine 😂
Agree
one of the best youtube's video I have ever found
Whenever I find myself overthinking or anxious or even coming close to a panic attack, I put on Children's Corner as well as random Satie and im instantly calmed down. It especially helps when it comes to studying, which is how I got back into piano again. Thanks Debussy, Schumann, Chopin and Scriabin
Debussy.
The BEST COMPOSER EVER
For me Debussy, Van Gogh and Antônio Gaudi are at the top. They changed my life and I thank God for the internet.
Amazing! What a privilege to be able to still hear these recordings.
Now that I understand where this techonolog and how they managed to capture his playing , everything makes perfect sense. Actually it does sound like musical paintings! 100% Impressionist performance!
This is a MASSIVELY IMPORTANT resource! I don't know if pianists are generally aware of all these recordings...
The interview with Mary Garden about working with Debussy was so illuminating. What a treasure this video has been to listen to. Thank you for posting it for us all to enjoy!
And my Lord, he was handsome!
I can’t get my head round ‘Jeux’, but I’ll persevere…I’m OK with ‘La Mer’ (the Abbado recording)
- Eastbourne’s finest hour! 🌊
These recordings aren’t what I expected, which is probably why I love them!
Thank you for sharing!
🙏🏻💔🙏🏽
アラベスク1番、今弾いています♩
本人が弾くと雰囲気も違うし、テンポもなんだかコントラストがあって良いですね〜
When I was 14, at the height of my Debussy obsession but not quite at the skill level to learn his most challenging pieces, my teacher suggested I learn something from the Children's Corner suite. I spent the next few months learning the suite in its entirety. It's become a bit of a comfort for me to sit down and bang it out, at this point having my own dynamic and rhythmic embellishments set in stone. I listened to Debussy's own version with my mouth agape throughout. It was such an epiphany to me. I had been so set on being expressive and romantic with the pieces I had failed to consider what Debussy wanted them to be, fun!! They are for children after all. Hearing that final bass roll on Golliwog's Cakewalk I could do nothing but shine a huge smile and a crack a little chuckle. Thank you for this upload.
He plays his works so much better than any other pianist I have heard. I am now his fan,.
A lot of you are quite insensitive, especially when it comes to Tempo.
‘I read the notes literally’ is what you’s do. Smh.
It’s meant to be played with this artistic sensibility and freedom, Debussy controls the sound to give it such life and meaning and listens to the pianos’ resonance impeccably therefore shaping everything beautifully in bursts of colour. Ya’ll been blinded by the modernist recordings. The man was a genius, a REAL artist, he knew what he wanted and knew what he was doing.
His version here made my cry with such a perfection and emotional interpretation I've never heard before
Arabesque 1 😂😂😂 he tries to relax you and then half way through he wakes you tf up with that ffffforte genius
So grateful for the ability to hear him play his own perfect masterpiece. Wish I had this audio when I was learning it. Such beauty and emotional impact. Thank you for posting this.
Just beautiful - never heard the entire collection put together like this - let alone hearing him actually play. As a classical trained pianist, I have no clue how I missed this... Just stunning. Thank you.
Wow! Such a treasure! Thank you so much for making it available on public. P.S. I specifically like how he plays 2nd Arabesques. All other versions that I've heard sounded very... weird. But this one is so natural and beautiful... Another interesting observation is how he plays arpeggiato all the time in Clair De Lune. Even when he takes only 2 notes. This is almost a harp, not a piano.
I know it’s been 6 months but I noticed the arpegiatto style as well. When I first started learning the piece I really wanted to do it even though it wasn’t written. Maybe I’m not not as crazy as I thought.
Debussy fills my world with color... Love Reverie... Debussy plays Debussy, thank you for sharing...
I agree with this, say what you want about how differently he played his works compared to how we interpret them today, his way of playing Reverie is miles better than any other performance I've ever heard.
C'est géant, ça m’émeut jusqu'à la couenne d'entendre Debussy jouer lui même ses œuvres !!!
Honnêtement, ça a été "mieux" joué depuis mais quand même, là c'est lui, ça aide à comprendre !!!
En plus le piano sonne merveilleusement bien, et c'est mon métiers de faire sonner les pianos !!!
Merci
So beautiful. I think he would be tickled to know we are still enchanted.
Debussy's earlier work can be described as "impressionistic". That means it's a reflection of the natural world and filled with evocative scenes. Arabesque no. 1 is such an example, meant to be reflective of a time in Debussy's life, based on the movements of animals he saw at a circus in France during his formative years
He didn't consider himself an impressionist, more a symbolist
People talking about how weird his playing sounds have to realize that this was recorded over a 100 years ago. I assure you like this was magnificent
49:54 Arabesque No.1
Your welcome
the begining is like flying through a cloud
Exactly why I came bless your soul
thank you!
Captain Soap i was captivated by it too, its actually meant to create a Arabic vibe, “ARABesque”.
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unfortunately, i found (/ reddit found) that the clair de lune and many other of the recordings (though not all) were not actually Debussy himself. The Clair De Lune especially was actually a recording by a pianist named Suzanne Godenne. If you were ever having a hard time finding this recording on spotify or something this was the reason
My girlfriend gets mad at me because i tell her all the time how much i love Debussy.
Really?
Prolly need a new girlfriend.
@@tifsa No that would be your face lol.. it's a laugh riot haha!
just remember, start with debussy, end on de bach
@@jamesfreud1 that's a burn!
There is a lot in these piano rolls that provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind and ear of the composer.
Debussy was really talented in translating images into music! So, when I listen to Debussy's music, I can see the images he was trying to convey. What I hear becomes what I see. So interesting!
Amazing! Thank you for this uploading.
This is simply fantastic... how lucky we are for having this possibility so easily available... It's like a time box being opened ..
The sunken cathedral is nearly the greatest piano piece ever composed... it is an absolute thrill for me to hear it being played by Debussy himself. Such a majestic composition !
Some people are saying that the recordings are too high quality to be from Debussy himself. Where does the truth lie... it should be clarified. I stand by what I said, that the sunken cathedral is Debussys finest piano composition,
Like a fabric violently, but so elegantly forcing itself over an ocean of a billion tears. None can compare, and none will ever steal the feelings from the heart of a man enlightened enough to hear such a blessing unfold.
Charmed and blessed to find such a large collection of Debussy's work played as he intended!
Thanks so much for this recording!
This performance is Debussy's aesthetics .
I am only intoxicated with his incomparable performance .
From chaotic Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun .
🎌🍜🍜🍱🍱🍙🍙🍛🍣🍣🍥🍥🍡🍢🍢🥠🍤🍲🍲🍘🥟🥟🇯🇵
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This is quite possibly one of the most representative musical depictions of a composers personality. At least from what we know about his personality.
Thank you for uploading this musical treasure! Fantastic!!
It helps to restore faith in humanity when we take moments and listen to one speaking with music. No translation into the tyranny of language, this is one soul to the world. A breeze moving through space filled with the potential to be felt if allowed. We are all lucky to have those with the talent and heart to create, wise if we allow it to touch us, blessed if we pass it on to others. Pass this on and kindle this simple flame of hope.
Oh my heart, yes. Thank you you kind soul
come un soffio dello Spirito che vola e danza dentro le nostre anime....grandioso, un riflesso del Cielo, grazie Claude...ora vivi nella Gioia e nella Luce Piena...
It's amazing to be able to listen to the original composer playing his own music 100 years later! Thank you so much for uploading the recording here！
There’s a tiny bit of static during the first chord that sounds like a snare played with brushes. Because of that, my brain half anticipated that a jazz drummer would be jamming with Debussy throughout.
Brooo, I’ve always thought Debussy and Miles Davis would work great in a quintet together, man that would be awesome!
Thank u , This was💝 a great experience
Yes Claude, play those ivories
That is strangely very dark.... Elephants.....
Yeah, Claude! Play those Elephant parts!
These recordings are gold. We can hear and feel himself.
Amazing music and playing.....that's so simple and so natural, thank you for sharing Adagietto !
How wonderful to hear Debussy play Debussy!
Wow, I knew some Debussy’s piano rolls, but I’ve never listened all that recordings! Great! Thanks!
my god, Debussy's interpretation on Refllets dans l'eau is absolutely unique. Never heard it that way!
we are fortunate these priceless transcriptions were saved
It is not played by Debussy. The clair de lune recording is played by Suzanne Godenne. There is absolutely no doubt about that, you can easily proof it by searching on the official webpage of Welte. Please spread this information, because the channel does not remove this fake-news though he has been informed several times. It also effects other of these compositions here, Debussy recorded only some of them himself.
Quite a different Arabesque 1 compared to what other pianists are playing. Interesting. I do not know if I like his own way, or not. He is very impulsive there, lots of pedal it seems, and changing tempo a lot, from very slow to super fast. The notes do not indicate this. Maybe I have to understand him better. Great quality of sound for the time it was recorded. Amazing, actually. The whole collection is a phantastic treasure.
it wasn't recorded back when he was alive. it is a modern recording from piano rolls.
@@richardfecteau4490 Yes, I did not understand piano rolls, just looked it up. That explains it.
Artistic expression would play a larger role in interpretation over using any notes for cues. Sometimes it's easier to just see what your soul feels when playing something, and it's probably easier to interpret your own works
From what I heard, Debussy wanted to be out of the romantic composers and create his own style. Maybe when Debussy works was integrated with the other composers as Fauré Grieg Saint-Saëns and other, Musicians did play it as others classical music. So, because it was taught thus, plaid. But here maybe we see what Debussy thought about his compositions.
Yeah some parts sounded fast like starting around 5:17. Im currently learning to play the piece but i never played that part fast
Say whatever y'all want to, I came here for some good music and I got the goosebumps. So I am all set. All good. Thank you. Mr Claude, I implore you.
Magnífico.
When humans cease to exist, these masterpieces uplift our legacy as a civilization of grandeur and divine utopia.
But if there isn't a video of Justin Bieber twerking on Tik Tok then did we really succeed as a civilisation?
his interpretations really are superior, nothing sounds fake or contrived, it is an ever evolving wall of music and imagery unconstrained by classical school regidity