It is literally chilling how modern and catchy the sounds of Debussy come off more than 100 years later. Such a sense of melody and artistic progress. No matter how praised, he will forever seem underrated.
Sure living in the modern world is soul crushing but it’s incredible that I can to listen to an actual recording of such an influential composer playing his own music and be able to hear his influences still in so many genres today from metal to hip hop to pop.. anyways I’m crying now
Just to be clear, this video is a piano roll, so it picks up his tempo and style, but not the nuances of touch. However, we do have a recording of him accompanying for a singer: ruclips.net/video/Y-c_uuYp0qI/видео.html
this performance has a power of an orchestral performance. it is just ........no words to describe Debussy's playing. what a genius. pure energy, sacred
Debussy is one of my favorites! I played this when I was in high school so I am familiar with the piece. There are many ways to perform pieces - not just one way. It's amazing to understand that this is actually Debussy playing his own work. I don't think it's rushed and I don't hear too much rubato. There is never a real live performance without a technical flaw! This is a very touching performance and after hearing it, I feel very good that the way that I understood (and understand) the piece is actually rather close to what the composer intended. Thanks for sharing this with us.
OH MY FREAKIN GOD! This recording is a golden piece of human treasure!! This is amazing!! AMAZING!! I cant believe this only has 270 thousand views but then again its not totally surprising….because humans are so ignorant of the most beautiful & wonderful things in life. This is gorgeous THANK YOU to the uploader! The quality isn’t the best but that is totally understandable & the photo is amazing as well. Very surreal, it makes you come to face with your mortality, & it brings out the best in you, the true beauty & GIFT of being a human, the sum of greatness that is God’s Divine Work. Thank you!
As I have said Humans are horrible, aren't we? but we needn't be! One of the pettiest forms of humans are those who think that they are God. Blasphemy is a human, particularly a legal construct. I am a believer, yet I was not shocked by your alleged blasphemy, a concept I view with derision. God if he / she / it exists, and remember there is nothing beyond our faith which can attest to thiss with certainty, he is unlikely to take offence. He produced the brilliance of Debussy. Was God offended when Louis XIV asked him reproachfully 'how can you treat me like this when I have done so much for you?' He is far more likely to be offended by someone pretending to be a follower so that he can more easily fool other supposed believers into supporting him politically, while he enriched himself at their expense! Perhaps not! Taking offence is a human trait, and God is, by definition not human, though he took human form for our salvation. There are many out there who call themselves Christian who deny this and who would rain down further condemnations of blasphemy upon me ...What do I say to them as I am dragged to the stake? Lighten up bro'! you?
Debussy was an amazing sight reader as well. Stravinsky finished the Rite for 4 hands and asked his friend Claude to check it out. He SIGHT READ the entire Rite of Spring on the spot, playing with his pal Igor. (Or so the story goes.) And who cares if this is a roll, audio, master, remaster, blah blah blah, it's beautiful and amazing that we even freakin have it at all!
@MorTobXD I'm New also,but this is Debussy himself playing in a piano roll from 1913,just that makes it amazing .Another fact is that he belongs to the impressionist moviment, which,is to give the impression of something ,like the wind blowing , the sun light in a thousand shades and hues over nature as flowers ,trees , water everything moving and changing,every second in Nature . You have study many impressinists paintings to understand Debussy, the outdoors alive in a painting them you will ,apreciate and understsnd Debbussy.
aAnother way for you to understand impressionist is to look at nature ,in different times of the day ,say through your window in the morning ,afternoon and evening , or look very closely at nature for some moments to feel it ,then you understand impressionist ,an outdoor movement of painting 1880 +/- ,which started painting outdoors ,which contrasts with earlier paintings done inside the studio ,the artist sketched outside ,brought his sketches to the studio ,to do his composition and painting.God’ beautiful world.
That story sounded too amazing, so I had to look into it. I found this in a journal article "Stravinksy and Debussy", the journal is Tempo, issue 61/62, by Eric Walter White. As for The Rite of Spring, Louis Laloy has left a vivid account of a preliminary run-through that occurred that spring. 'I was strolling with Debussy in my garden at Bellevue. We were expecting Stravinsky. As soon as he saw us, the Russian musician ran with his arms outstretched to embrace the French master, who gave me a look over his shoulder that showed he was both amused and touched. Stravinsky had brought with him a four-handed piano reduction of The Rite of Spring. Debussy agreed to play the bass on my Pleyel piano. Stravinsky asked if he might take his collar off. Gazing through his spectacles, poking his nose towards the keyboard, occasionally humming a part that had been omitted, he led into a torrent of sound the soft, agile hands of his partner, who followed without a hitch and seemed to enjoy the difficulties. When they had finished, there was no question of embracing, nor even of compliments. We were silent, overwhelmed by this hurricane that had come from the depths of the ages and torn up our life by the roots.' Years later (in his Conversations) Stravinsky recalled the occasion and said that what had impressed him most at the time was Debussy's brilliant piano playing.
Debussy mastered the contrast between consonance and dissonance. Perhaps he took the cue from Japanese art and music, and perfected that into what he made.
This piece was actually inspired by Spanish and Moorish music that he heard at the Great Paris Exhibition in 1899, fun fact! He did another one called Pagodes which was inspired by Javanese Gamelan music.
This is probably my desert island Debussy piece..so tickled to hear him play it..Its everything Debussy in under 6 mins. Mystery and romantic sweeps..he plays himself very well..
To those of you criticising ElScotto; this is impossibly high quality for a 1913 recording, and that's because it isn't one. It is a Welte Mignon, i.e. a piano roll. You could run the roll through a pianola today and get a crystal quality recording, so it is relatively low quality
Years ago there was a weekly NPR radio show devoted to the many great pianists of the past that performed and made rolls for the Welte Mignon. Their rolls were featured. The device was very complicated but my understanding from the series was that it captured not only the correct tempo but the subtle nuances, too, as well as the pedaling. These rolls were very sophisticated and intended to be played back on another Welte machine like the one that 'recorded' it. Due to their extremely complex inner workings to capture the live performance they were extremely expensive for the average music lover to purchase and were expensive to maintain. Only the wealthy could afford them. The few surviving pianos today are rare collectors items of great historic and artistic value and restored at great cost. You probably can run a roll through a modern pianola but the dynamics, shading and pedaling would be absent because the instrument was never designed to play these type rolls. Just listen to all of the music dynamics in this video! A pianola would not play them but a Welte Mignon would. You are actually hearing Debussy performing the piece as it actually sounded as if it had been tape recorded! Amazing!
I was always taught that Debussy should be played like a straight piece of classical music, and that the music will do the magic without extra 'assistance' from the performer. I now know this to be bollocks.
I think the wisdom there is that many budding classical performers will really enthusiastically play a piece, and really enjoy the feeling whilst they do it, but forget that they are not being deliberate in their playing. Their dynamics become messy, the tempo is lost, the phrasing is farcicle, it feels nice to the performer but the listener gets lost. If you stay focussed instead you can do something more deliberate that others will enjoy abit more
Your comment is extremely important to us not to take for granted things that are "told" to us. It is always good to check primary sources. Debussy´s performance of his own music destroys this misconception form bar 1. The recommendation made by Debussy to "take things straight" was directed to pianists of his era that played with a lot of freedom. Perhaps Debussy wanted less freedom, but he never said to play his music with a metronome in mind, I believe. It is the wise difference between metric proportions, but flexible beats whwn expression callas for it.
Emozione sentire questo grande, geniale compositore. Ma la mia riflessione e ' altra ( sono di parte..) Mi viene subito da fare il confronto con quel genio assoluto del pianismo , ABM. Solo Lui ha dato sonorità , colore, soluzioni interpretative che hanno tolto il velo ALL opera di Debussy, rendendola immensa. Solo Lui !!
There are two versions of this on RUclips. The first I heard was so amazingly remastered I didn't believe it to be genuine. After hearing this, which still has some technical flaws, I am just simply unsure. What is sure is that Debussy's own style of playing (whether this is the original or an imitation based on the piano rolls) is very far from that of a lot of modern performers. There is much more rubato and some extremes of tempo, dare I say "rushed". Make of this what you will. Maybe Debussy has been "classicized" to suit what we think a "classical" composer should sound like. A kind of reverse reading of what the Victorians did to say, Handel. Who knows?
I make of it that most "modern" performance are often missing the mark and spirit of these works with an over-emphasis on "objectivity" and "correctness" by a large margin, sadly.
So... you've heard two versions of Debussy playing his own music on perhaps one of the best reproducing pianos of the era, and... "you're not sure?" Sure about what, exactly? Remastered? How do you fucking remaster a damn piano roll? You don't remaster a damn piano roll... YOU PLAY IT ON THE INSTRUMENT IT WAS INTENDED TO BE PLAYED ON! This is being played on a Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano, and I know this because I also own the recording this video was ripped from. At this point, I would like to know what exactly makes you the "end all, be all" of everything Debussy... huh? You want to "remaster" your dumbass ill-informed comment? You should.... This is the way the man wanted it played. Deal with it. Seriously, with all due respect, *fuck* modern interpretations. Listen to the Debussy / Mary Garden recordings to hear how this man actually played. This is dead-on fucking Debussy. One more "fuck you" for good measure, because... *fuck you.* Take your elitist attitude somewhere else where they smile when you're shoving it up your ass.
I always thought most performers completely miss the point of Debussy's music. We tend to label Debussy as "impressionist" or "classical", while his music is so much deeper than just impressions, and musically, it's more contemporary than loads of "contemporary" composers. Of course, there are pieces which are supposed to be played with exact tempo or without rubato (for example, "Pagodes", which is for a reason, as it's heavily influenced by gamelan), but even in those pieces there is so much potential for greatness, I see absolutely no reason to make them sound polite or classical... This is one of the prooves, I guess...
the rhythm is so precisely calculated , of course it is not done on purpose (he was a genius) , he didn't calculate that. i do that, , i'm not a genius and i try to feel his music . now, he was unaware of a lot of things he was doing. cause they were there , into his vocabulary. the language of music. this is Debussy .
I need to know if this was actually a reproduction of Suzanne Godenne or if it truly was Claude Debussy. It seems to be a great debate if Claude Debussy actually recorded any of his music. Please let me know!
There are deliciousness and ingenuity which can be called nothing, and an impression is remembered.---Vous regardez que catte video est du pays ？ From where are you watching this video ？Estas viendo que este video es del pais ？Sie befinden sich gerade ist dieses video ein land wo die Lente wollen wissen .
The recording of a piano roll playing is not the same as a recording of the performer sitting at a piano and recording. One is the vibrations of air caused by the piano roll causing notes to sound, the other is the sound of the hammers of the piano keys being pressed by the actual performer in real time. So you could say that the piano roll version is the most accurate REPRODUCTION of a piano player playing something that exists, but it is not the sound of the actual pianist's fingers striking the piano keys. Semantics! But awesome nonetheless. If Claude was impressed, I'm impressed! Furthermore, my father SAW RACHMANINOFF PLAYING RACHMANINOFF. Now THAT is something to brag about!
Too bad that unless the Welte Mignon player is not regulated accurately to a tee correctly, we really don't get the "real" impression. Luckily, It was definitely an ingenious but extremely complex machine but somehow always seems to be needing attention. Debussy however did recordings *live* as an accompanist to 4 of his songs as recorded by G+T in 1904 on phonograph records. Sure, those records have a hiss to them and the recording is entirely acoustic, and yet, at least for myself, this was the best way I ever heard Debussy play. Why? This WAS the way he actually played! One just has to "listen into" the record itself and tune the hisses and crackles out. The effect? His own playing is just as mysterious as the composer himself. "Impressionistic recordings" they are. Perfect for Debussy.
Debussy was obviously an extremely fine pianist. Apparently Ravel was an appalling pianist, surprising when one thinks of his invaluable contribution to piano literature.
I don't buy it, the playing is ok, but not great. I question whether it is Debussy or it was just being "sold" as Debussy. It gives me the impression of a very spoilt child trying to get attention rather than an artist...
I think you meant to say the recording quality is ok, but not great :) I encourage you to give it another listen. Whether or not this is Debussy, the playing is exquisite. The sense of timing, variety of touches, contrasts between somber and jubilant.. it's all joyfully imaginative. It sounds beautifully improvisatory, yet the timing is precise and thoughtful.
This IS Debussy. It's recorded on a reproduction piano roll, not a proper acoustic recording. I always laugh when random dudes/dudettes make questionable assessments of composers interpreting their own work. Especially, when the judgment is tarnished by a blatant preconception: "I don't think Debussy would have played it this way (because I'm accustomed to Michelangeli, Gieseking and such), so it's not him!"
hahahha you think he followed your piano teachers rules??? this playing has so much creative intent behind the rhythms, it has more character than any of the interpretations I have heard, this is his voice. this playing is so relaxed and intentional, if everyone was like you music would be boring and we'd all look to our "superiors" for recognition rather than letting the music come from ourselves
also, do you hear how separate he keeps the two meters/patterns in the beginning ??? its so masterful, it draws your attention to the variations of the rhythm of each voice and makes it more improvisational, something that makes it obvious he is interpreting his own work
@@Kris9kris Please don't put words in my mouth. As a matter of fact he did make recordings but the Welte transfer process has been acknowledged to be flawed in many respects. We know he wrote that he heard the playback at the time and was impressed, probably because it was better than he expected and probably the best he could hope for at the time. Ultimately no one knows if these are his, though -- we only know that they are claimed to be his.
actually, there is better versions. Welte Mignon is a brand of piano roll not a traditional record. Check piano roll on wikipedia for more informations.
How magical to hear Debussy himself. And a very atmospheric photo of him too sat at his piano. Thank you!
It's sad we didn't have the technology back then that we have now, I'd love to see and hear Debussy play piano.
@@rupe82 just wait for time travel soon
It is literally chilling how modern and catchy the sounds of Debussy come off more than 100 years later. Such a sense of melody and artistic progress. No matter how praised, he will forever seem underrated.
Sure living in the modern world is soul crushing but it’s incredible that I can to listen to an actual recording of such an influential composer playing his own music and be able to hear his influences still in so many genres today from metal to hip hop to pop.. anyways I’m crying now
Amazing, I'm actually listening to Debussy playing his own pieces, just astonishing.
Just to be clear, this video is a piano roll, so it picks up his tempo and style, but not the nuances of touch.
However, we do have a recording of him accompanying for a singer:
ruclips.net/video/Y-c_uuYp0qI/видео.html
The absolute BEST performance of this work ever made!
this performance has a power of an orchestral performance. it is just ........no words to describe Debussy's playing. what a genius. pure energy, sacred
Debussy is one of my favorites! I played this when I was in high school so I am familiar with the piece. There are many ways to perform pieces - not just one way. It's amazing to understand that this is actually Debussy playing his own work. I don't think it's rushed and I don't hear too much rubato. There is never a real live performance without a technical flaw! This is a very touching performance and after hearing it, I feel very good that the way that I understood (and understand) the piece is actually rather close to what the composer intended. Thanks for sharing this with us.
I'm literally learning this piece right now. Hecking trippy. I'm glad I came across this piano roll recording.
OH MY FREAKIN GOD! This recording is a golden piece of human treasure!! This is amazing!! AMAZING!! I cant believe this only has 270 thousand views but then again its not totally surprising….because humans are so ignorant of the most beautiful & wonderful things in life. This is gorgeous THANK YOU to the uploader! The quality isn’t the best but that is totally understandable & the photo is amazing as well. Very surreal, it makes you come to face with your mortality, & it brings out the best in you, the true beauty & GIFT of being a human, the sum of greatness that is God’s Divine Work. Thank you!
I don't think blaspheming with your opening statement was appropriate or appreciated. Maybe curve your enthusiasm? A edit perhaps? Thank you. ❤ 😊
As I have said Humans are horrible, aren't we? but we needn't be! One of the pettiest forms of humans are those who think that they are God. Blasphemy is a human, particularly a legal construct. I am a believer, yet I was not shocked by your alleged blasphemy, a concept I view with derision. God if he / she / it exists, and remember there is nothing beyond our faith which can attest to thiss with certainty, he is unlikely to take offence. He produced the brilliance of Debussy. Was God offended when Louis XIV asked him reproachfully 'how can you treat me like this when I have done so much for you?' He is far more likely to be offended by someone pretending to be a follower so that he can more easily fool other supposed believers into supporting him politically, while he enriched himself at their expense! Perhaps not! Taking offence is a human trait, and God is, by definition not human, though he took human form for our salvation. There are many out there who call themselves Christian who deny this and who would rain down further condemnations of blasphemy upon me ...What do I say to them as I am dragged to the stake? Lighten up bro'!
you?
Debussy was an amazing sight reader as well. Stravinsky finished the Rite for 4 hands and asked his friend Claude to check it out. He SIGHT READ the entire Rite of Spring on the spot, playing with his pal Igor. (Or so the story goes.) And who cares if this is a roll, audio, master, remaster, blah blah blah, it's beautiful and amazing that we even freakin have it at all!
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@MorTobXD I'm New also,but this is Debussy himself playing in a piano roll from 1913,just that makes it amazing .Another fact is that he belongs to the impressionist moviment, which,is to give the impression of something ,like the wind blowing , the sun light in a thousand shades and hues over nature as flowers ,trees , water everything moving and changing,every second in Nature . You have study many impressinists paintings to understand Debussy, the outdoors alive in a painting them you will ,apreciate and understsnd Debbussy.
aAnother way for you to understand impressionist is to look at nature ,in different times of the day ,say through your window in the morning ,afternoon and evening , or look very closely at nature for some moments to feel it ,then you understand impressionist ,an outdoor movement of painting 1880 +/- ,which started painting outdoors ,which contrasts with earlier paintings done inside the studio ,the artist sketched outside ,brought his sketches to the studio ,to do his composition and painting.God’ beautiful world.
That story sounded too amazing, so I had to look into it. I found this in a journal article "Stravinksy and Debussy", the journal is Tempo, issue 61/62, by Eric Walter White.
As for The Rite of Spring, Louis Laloy has left a vivid account of a preliminary run-through that occurred that spring. 'I was strolling with Debussy in my garden at Bellevue. We were expecting Stravinsky. As soon as he saw us, the Russian musician ran with his arms outstretched to embrace the French master, who gave me a look over his shoulder that showed he was both amused and touched. Stravinsky had brought with him a four-handed piano reduction of The Rite of Spring. Debussy agreed to play the bass on my Pleyel piano. Stravinsky asked if he might take his collar off. Gazing through his spectacles, poking his nose towards the keyboard, occasionally humming a part that had been omitted, he led into a torrent of sound the soft, agile hands of his partner, who followed without a hitch and seemed to enjoy the difficulties. When they had finished, there was no question of embracing, nor even of compliments. We were silent, overwhelmed by this hurricane that had come from the depths of the ages and torn up our life by the roots.' Years later (in his Conversations) Stravinsky recalled the occasion and said that what had impressed him most at the time was Debussy's brilliant piano playing.
First time to hear Debussy himself for me. It's miracle and, of course, beautiful! Thanks.
Debussy mastered the contrast between consonance and dissonance. Perhaps he took the cue from Japanese art and music, and perfected that into what he made.
This piece was actually inspired by Spanish and Moorish music that he heard at the Great Paris Exhibition in 1899, fun fact! He did another one called Pagodes which was inspired by Javanese Gamelan music.
What a treat, the master performing on a great piano too.
This is probably my desert island Debussy piece..so tickled to hear him play it..Its everything Debussy in under 6 mins. Mystery and romantic sweeps..he plays himself very well..
To those of you criticising ElScotto; this is impossibly high quality for a 1913 recording, and that's because it isn't one. It is a Welte Mignon, i.e. a piano roll. You could run the roll through a pianola today and get a crystal quality recording, so it is relatively low quality
Years ago there was a weekly NPR radio show devoted to the many great pianists of the past that performed and made rolls for the Welte Mignon. Their rolls were featured. The device was very complicated but my understanding from the series was that it captured not only the correct tempo but the subtle nuances, too, as well as the pedaling. These rolls were very sophisticated and intended to be played back on another Welte machine like the one that 'recorded' it. Due to their extremely complex inner workings to capture the live performance they were extremely expensive for the average music lover to purchase and were expensive to maintain. Only the wealthy could afford them. The few surviving pianos today are rare collectors items of great historic and artistic value and restored at great cost.
You probably can run a roll through a modern pianola but the dynamics, shading and pedaling would be absent because the instrument was never designed to play these type rolls. Just listen to all of the music dynamics in this video! A pianola would not play them but a Welte Mignon would. You are actually hearing Debussy performing the piece as it actually sounded as if it had been tape recorded! Amazing!
This quality is really good.
Merci louiu! Superbe écoute, ça vaut vraiment!
To think this recording is one hundred years old, just puts me in awe
Thank you for sharing this rare recording of my favorite composer.
Debussy had such a beautiful face.
michel brillaud he seemed like a nice guy who you can tell jokes and have a great time with
@I STILL HATE MINIONS SO MUCH tell me more
@ENESCU GAY why is it a joke?
@Enescu no he wrote it with dapussy
Love hearing how he interprets his own music!!!
I have always desired this, tysm for uploading
Thank you so much for posting this!
I was always taught that Debussy should be played like a straight piece of classical music, and that the music will do the magic without extra 'assistance' from the performer. I now know this to be bollocks.
I think the wisdom there is that many budding classical performers will really enthusiastically play a piece, and really enjoy the feeling whilst they do it, but forget that they are not being deliberate in their playing. Their dynamics become messy, the tempo is lost, the phrasing is farcicle, it feels nice to the performer but the listener gets lost. If you stay focussed instead you can do something more deliberate that others will enjoy abit more
Your comment is extremely important to us not to take for granted things that are "told" to us. It is always good to check primary sources. Debussy´s performance of his own music destroys this misconception form bar 1. The recommendation made by Debussy to "take things straight" was directed to pianists of his era that played with a lot of freedom. Perhaps Debussy wanted less freedom, but he never said to play his music with a metronome in mind, I believe. It is the wise difference between metric proportions, but flexible beats whwn expression callas for it.
Sally Pinkas did pretty well at playing this btw
🌞🌞🤣
Une archive incroyable.
Si exceptionnel et rare;
son toucher était assez langoureux, (assez proche d'espagnols comme Turina ou Albeniz; )
WONDERFUL! Thank you for posting :)
Emozione sentire questo grande, geniale compositore.
Ma la mia riflessione e ' altra ( sono di parte..)
Mi viene subito da fare il confronto con quel genio assoluto del pianismo , ABM.
Solo Lui ha dato sonorità , colore, soluzioni interpretative che hanno tolto il velo ALL opera di Debussy, rendendola immensa.
Solo Lui !!
I get the chills listening to Debussy.....
Amazing rare piece of musical history👍🏻
Good to know how slowly paced he intended the piece played
I love this man so much
this is an original debussy piano roll
Maravilla escuchar al VERDADERO Debussy. ¡Muy ilustrativo!
Wow? Wonderful..
I dont know if this is Debussy playing or not... But this version is so beautiful and fills me with some misterious nostalgia and joy
Merveilleux!
so wonderful !!
Beautiful
If he played Arabesque No 1. I would have melted in bliss. 😊
Extraordinaire.
❤❤❤
There are two versions of this on RUclips. The first I heard was so amazingly remastered I didn't believe it to be genuine. After hearing this, which still has some technical flaws, I am just simply unsure. What is sure is that Debussy's own style of playing (whether this is the original or an imitation based on the piano rolls) is very far from that of a lot of modern performers. There is much more rubato and some extremes of tempo, dare I say "rushed". Make of this what you will. Maybe Debussy has been "classicized" to suit what we think a "classical" composer should sound like. A kind of reverse reading of what the Victorians did to say, Handel. Who knows?
I make of it that most "modern" performance are often missing the mark and spirit of these works with an over-emphasis on "objectivity" and "correctness" by a large margin, sadly.
Koji Attwood Yeah - they often kill his music with hyperformality - to which Debussy was staunchly opposed.
So... you've heard two versions of Debussy playing his own music on perhaps one of the best reproducing pianos of the era, and... "you're not sure?" Sure about what, exactly? Remastered? How do you fucking remaster a damn piano roll? You don't remaster a damn piano roll... YOU PLAY IT ON THE INSTRUMENT IT WAS INTENDED TO BE PLAYED ON! This is being played on a Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano, and I know this because I also own the recording this video was ripped from. At this point, I would like to know what exactly makes you the "end all, be all" of everything Debussy... huh? You want to "remaster" your dumbass ill-informed comment? You should....
This is the way the man wanted it played. Deal with it. Seriously, with all due respect, *fuck* modern interpretations. Listen to the Debussy / Mary Garden recordings to hear how this man actually played. This is dead-on fucking Debussy. One more "fuck you" for good measure, because... *fuck you.* Take your elitist attitude somewhere else where they smile when you're shoving it up your ass.
***** You're damn right I was....
I always thought most performers completely miss the point of Debussy's music. We tend to label Debussy as "impressionist" or "classical", while his music is so much deeper than just impressions, and musically, it's more contemporary than loads of "contemporary" composers. Of course, there are pieces which are supposed to be played with exact tempo or without rubato (for example, "Pagodes", which is for a reason, as it's heavily influenced by gamelan), but even in those pieces there is so much potential for greatness, I see absolutely no reason to make them sound polite or classical... This is one of the prooves, I guess...
It is sad that he didn't stay with us for longer and his daughter too.
the rhythm is so precisely calculated , of course it is not done on purpose (he was a genius) , he didn't calculate that. i do that, , i'm not a genius and i try to feel his music . now, he was unaware of a lot of things he was doing. cause they were there , into his vocabulary. the language of music. this is Debussy .
I need to know if this was actually a reproduction of Suzanne Godenne or if it truly was Claude Debussy. It seems to be a great debate if Claude Debussy actually recorded any of his music. Please let me know!
I guess you cannot really comment: 'This is not how this piece is supposed to be played'?
thanks
This is actually very good quality for 1913.
it is a piano roll sadly
wooooooooooooow
Wow!
Epic!
This sounds really close to if not exactly A=432Hz which I use on my piano too!
I wonder where the piano he played music on is today I hope it's not lost forever
@Liberty AboveAllElse oh ok let's see it mate
Loving ands sensitive.
The first few bars sound very like "Another Green World" by Brian Eno.
Really free!
many major pianists during that period made piano rolls.
My heart awfully calm down.
Greetings from Japan.
Which national person are you seeing this video？
Hearing this from the United States. Cheers!
Hong Kong
France
There are deliciousness and ingenuity which can be called nothing, and an impression is remembered.---Vous regardez que catte video est du pays ？ From where are you watching this video ？Estas viendo que este video es del pais ？Sie befinden sich gerade ist dieses video ein land wo die Lente wollen wissen .
Debussy....the man who invented the 20th Century...of Music.
Great !!!!!!!!!Thank you !!!Is there any other recordings also ?
Sacred Music
AMEN
I found ambient music in the pre-Eno era.
oh oh oh... sound you can sink your teeth into..... sumptuous
*La soirée dans Grenade
The recording of a piano roll playing is not the same as a recording of the performer sitting at a piano and recording. One is the vibrations of air caused by the piano roll causing notes to sound, the other is the sound of the hammers of the piano keys being pressed by the actual performer in real time.
So you could say that the piano roll version is the most accurate REPRODUCTION of a piano player playing something that exists, but it is not the sound of the actual pianist's fingers striking the piano keys.
Semantics! But awesome nonetheless. If Claude was impressed, I'm impressed! Furthermore, my father SAW RACHMANINOFF PLAYING RACHMANINOFF.
Now THAT is something to brag about!
Kamakiri Sassorichan correct me if Im wrong but this is still the hammers hitting the notes
OMG OK
Idc if its a piano roll, it sounds amazing anyway
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Too bad that unless the Welte Mignon player is not regulated accurately to a tee correctly, we really don't get the "real" impression. Luckily, It was definitely an ingenious but extremely complex machine but somehow always seems to be needing attention. Debussy however did recordings *live* as an accompanist to 4 of his songs as recorded by G+T in 1904 on phonograph records. Sure, those records have a hiss to them and the recording is entirely acoustic, and yet, at least for myself, this was the best way I ever heard Debussy play. Why? This WAS the way he actually played! One just has to "listen into" the record itself and tune the hisses and crackles out. The effect? His own playing is just as mysterious as the composer himself. "Impressionistic recordings" they are. Perfect for Debussy.
Great！His performance is tremendous edge ，From where are you watching this video ？
Can I have permission to use this music in a TV documentary?
wow. I've never heard this movement played this way before. Are there recordings anywhere of him playing the other 2 from Estampes?
Any original audio recordings from the late 1800s from any of the great composers?.
Piano rolls only. Unfortunately.
La soirée danS grenade
4:07 :O
Yea, he seems to be evoking some other instrument in that section, something Spanish... interesting...
What is the name of this piece?
La soiree dans grande
Is this real?!! :O
was it really him?
they was expensive?
گوێ ڕادێرە،بەرزاییەکان بەرەو ئێمە ھەنگاو دەنێن،بەرەو پادشاھێتی خودا،
This is a piano roll not an actual recording.
RipThisJoint69 And your point is?
Vorrei conoscere coloro che hanno messo il pollice giù.
Io no!
@cp2682 It's a rick roll
Interesting--his upright piano has 85 keys.
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Sounds like recording made on piano rolls. I hate piano rolls because they do not give you feeling of the original epoque.
Debussy was obviously an extremely fine pianist. Apparently Ravel was an appalling pianist, surprising when one thinks of his invaluable contribution to piano literature.
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I don't buy it, the playing is ok, but not great. I question whether it is Debussy or it was just being "sold" as Debussy. It gives me the impression of a very spoilt child trying to get attention rather than an artist...
I think you meant to say the recording quality is ok, but not great :) I encourage you to give it another listen. Whether or not this is Debussy, the playing is exquisite. The sense of timing, variety of touches, contrasts between somber and jubilant.. it's all joyfully imaginative. It sounds beautifully improvisatory, yet the timing is precise and thoughtful.
This IS Debussy. It's recorded on a reproduction piano roll, not a proper acoustic recording. I always laugh when random dudes/dudettes make questionable assessments of composers interpreting their own work. Especially, when the judgment is tarnished by a blatant preconception: "I don't think Debussy would have played it this way (because I'm accustomed to Michelangeli, Gieseking and such), so it's not him!"
hahahha you think he followed your piano teachers rules??? this playing has so much creative intent behind the rhythms, it has more character than any of the interpretations I have heard, this is his voice. this playing is so relaxed and intentional, if everyone was like you music would be boring and we'd all look to our "superiors" for recognition rather than letting the music come from ourselves
also, do you hear how separate he keeps the two meters/patterns in the beginning ??? its so masterful, it draws your attention to the variations of the rhythm of each voice and makes it more improvisational, something that makes it obvious he is interpreting his own work
@@Kris9kris Please don't put words in my mouth. As a matter of fact he did make recordings but the Welte transfer process has been acknowledged to be flawed in many respects. We know he wrote that he heard the playback at the time and was impressed, probably because it was better than he expected and probably the best he could hope for at the time. Ultimately no one knows if these are his, though -- we only know that they are claimed to be his.
actually, there is better versions. Welte Mignon is a brand of piano roll not a traditional record. Check piano roll on wikipedia for more informations.