Surprised to see this video come out just as I was searching your channel for Debussy prelude videos, great timing!! At 11:08 I think it might be a chord using a whole tone scale, it has a kind of unsettling feeling he uses a lot
I think the "tendre et triste regret" can make a kind of sense: for me it is a MEMORY of something tender/happy that is sadly lost. From my "Petit Robert" dictionary: "État de conscience douloureux causé par la perte d'un bien". Perhaps a slightly different shade of meaning in the French, having the feel of regretting/yearning the loss of something good. The decrescendo at the end for me back to the icy theme taking me back to the present is the sad bit... reminds me of of Chopin recalling his happy Polish years in sad pieces, or is that going too far?
Had to look up if this was written after the Nutcracker, that modal VII - i in bar 4 is dripping with the color of winter and cold that almost sounds like it could be a reference to the Arabian Dance.
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Thank you Henrik for another great analysis of one of Debussy’s most minimalist masterpieces.
This prelude is hauntingly beautiful. I love playing it.
Love to listen to you play and analyze. Thank you.
Absolutely wonderful.
Surprised to see this video come out just as I was searching your channel for Debussy prelude videos, great timing!!
At 11:08 I think it might be a chord using a whole tone scale, it has a kind of unsettling feeling he uses a lot
Yeah, except the Ab on top.
Beautiful piece. I hear echoes of The Little Shepherd from Children's Corner.
Please, do much more Debussy. 🙂
I think the "tendre et triste regret" can make a kind of sense: for me it is a MEMORY of something tender/happy that is sadly lost. From my "Petit Robert" dictionary: "État de conscience douloureux causé par la perte d'un bien". Perhaps a slightly different shade of meaning in the French, having the feel of regretting/yearning the loss of something good. The decrescendo at the end for me back to the icy theme taking me back to the present is the sad bit... reminds me of of Chopin recalling his happy Polish years in sad pieces, or is that going too far?
Hmm yeah, like more missing than actively regretting maybe... a lot of shades in that word!
Had to look up if this was written after the Nutcracker, that modal VII - i in bar 4 is dripping with the color of winter and cold that almost sounds like it could be a reference to the Arabian Dance.
Yes, very similar actually!
The ending is clearly a plagal cadence.
Shades of Satie or vice versa 🌹
Yes, and perhaps of late Scriabin in the “colder/darker” passages?☮️
Wonderful deconstruction of this mini masterpiece-thx!👌