Anton Nel performs the complete General Lavine - eccentric by Claude Debussy

The Virtual Piano Master Course is a series of videos from Steinway Artist Claire Wachter, the creator of the Virtual Piano Pedagogue.
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The sixth topic in the Virtual Piano Master Course is “A Video Master Class with Dr. Anton Nel.”
Dr. Nel discusses and performs The Interrupted Serenade from Preludes, Book One (1910) and General Lavine - Eccentric from Preludes, Book Two (1913) by Claude Debussy. He also discusses and demonstrates the first two pieces from Drei Klavierstücke (1828) by Franz Schubert.
General Lavine - eccentric from Preludes, Book Two (1913) by Claude Debussy
Debussy creates the effect of three hands playing. Lavine’s clown acts were accompanied by trumpets and drums, often backstage. “Strident,” “spiritual and discreet”: tongue-in-cheek. ”Sec,” a dry sound for staccato chords. Debussy’s transformation of the American popular tune, “Camptown Races.” Sudden dynamic changes suggest the juggling act of “General” Lavine, tossing large and small items at the same time.
Anton Nel performs the complete General Lavine - eccentric from Preludes, Book Two (1913) by Claude Debussy
ABOUT ANTON NEL
Anton Nel has won prizes in some of the most prestigious and important competitions in the piano world. A prizewinner in the 1984 Leeds International Piano Competition in England, Nel went on to win first prize in the 1987 Naumburg International Piano Competition at Carnegie Hall.
His remarkable and multifaceted career has taken him to North and South America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Highlights of Mr. Nel’s four decades of concertizing include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, and London, among many others. He has an active repertoire of more than 100 works for piano and orchestra.
As recitalist, Nel has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection in New York, at the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, Davies Hall in San Francisco, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. Internationally, he has performed recitals in major concert halls in Canada, England (Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls in London), France, Holland (Concertgebouw in Amsterdam), Japan (Suntory Hall in Tokyo), Korea, China, and South Africa.
A favorite at summer festivals, he has performed at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as at the music festivals of Aspen and Ravinia, where he is on the artist-faculties. He has regularly collaborated with many of the world's foremost string quartets, instrumental soloists, and singers. With acclaimed violinist Sarah Chang, he completed a highly successful tour of Japan as well as appearing at a special benefit concert for Live Music Now in London, hosted by HRH the Prince of Wales.
In January 2010, he became the first pianist to hold the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Piano at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2015 Nel has presented an annual series of masterclasses in piano and chamber music at the Manhattan School of Music in New York as Visiting Professor. Mr. Nel also teaches regularly at the renowned Glenn Gould School in Toronto and heads the Division of Keyboard Studies at the Butler School of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Anton Nel is a Steinway artist.