Michelangeli - Debussy - Les collines d'Anacapri

[yusukeundisolde]

beautiful

thank you

[AdmiralSnider]

Please never again compare Lang Lang and Michelangeli, in any possible way.

[johngotwalt]

here I'm hearing what I suspect Debussy meant

[wawa314159]

This is my favorite prelude by Debussy.

[rubbertoe86]

why is he wearing a belt?



[rubbertoe86]

why is he wearing a belt?

[DafniElissa]

@rubbertoe86 lol

[iGookin]

This piece makes me argue that Debussy discovered something better than what Einstein did.

[Mathgenius888]

I must say that this is guy has put so much passion into this piece that it is undescribable. Excellent job; Michelangeli has given me such a strong inspiration to play this piece even better!

[sugarve]

Inarrivabile!!!!

[looney1023]

and all people talk about is clair de lune and the girl with the flaxen hair when they could be listening to small masterpieces like this!

One of debussy's finest pieces

and the hands down best performance

[InfoWarrior45]

The dude looks like Edgar Allen Poe!

[werewethere]

@InfoWarrior45 Now that you mention it...

[VSKCREW]

He is great! though I like Zimermans version more than this..

[GladioNapoli]

Sorry, but is not true! I have known him many years ago and i can tell you that hi was a great gentleman...

[acerflots]

who knows what he's thinking but him

[ramondt2]

he totally trumps lang lang with this version, not so overly dynamic. He knows just when to hold back or unleash debussy's heavenly pentatonics.

[diefuhreroffunk]

i swear there a little Gershwin around 1:45 ....

[AlainLeboeuf]

sometimes quite sure .

[AlainLeboeuf]

2.40 et 3.10 also

[AlainLeboeuf]

yes sir !

[kempff95]

perfect and with efect!

[SHRINKINGBASSIST]

these videos really are something special

[JamesMir11]

His technique is amazing. Wonderful rendition.

[umegghju]

Vere granda pianisto li estas ...

[djvbb12]

What if his sister is Claire Huangci?

[disturbiapixie]

in this case such statement would still be egregiously off the mark: comparing a gifted, promising student to one of the most formidable masters of the instrument is just silly

[djvbb12]

MEH! My comment just stood as an example. Mostly it was just to play devil's advocate (aka be annoying)

[dummkopf50]

Thats cuz some of them are triplets... listen carefully and count, theres no strange things, they are just triplets. Debussy doesnt bother to write the "3" down, or atleast they are not there in my Edition Peters, they all look like 16th notes.

[TaciturnEternity]

I'm in the process of orchestrating this piece for chamber orchestra and the rhythms are completely inconsistant. I don't know if it's Debussy or the person who engraved this particular version I have but in the 12/16 measures there are often only 11 beats in the top stave and the full 12 in the bottom, or the top stave is in 2/4 while the bottom is in 12/16. There is one measure where the top stave has four 16ths and the bottom has six 16ths - all taking up the same amount of space. So strange.

[karloskonti]

I'm starting to study this piece on piano and i've realized the same thing. When you find those "11 beats" you should take the last beat as 2/4 division(which means that instead of two 16ths that 8th lasts three). Hope that help you!

[alialvarez]

Actually those titles are not descriptive. There is much more to the piece than the mere description of some hills or steps on the snow, their significance is way more deep than the title describes. And that is why the titles are placed at the end of each piece like "... Des pas sur la neige" because is not just steps on the snow, but what this could represent. Debussy himself rejected the label "impressionist".

[suzettegm]

great rendition

[p1ano]

i just began to wonder something.

why is it that we call debussy's work by their titles instead of op. __ no. __? are they titled like that as well?

[pianopera]

Opusnumbers (usually in order of composition or publication) were given by the composers themselves, or afterwards by musicologists, who could also decide to have another form of classification (e.g. Bach or Mozart). I guess Debussy himself chose for the option of giving specific titles to each work. He also didn't write hundreds of pieces, if we don't count separately the cycli for pianosolo and voice(s)...

[p1ano]

Ah..thank you, pianopera. That was helpful.

[apollodionysus7]

Such a great prelude, full of joy. I feel a little bad for him, he doesn't exude exuberance as he performs this, however, his playing is wonderful.

[shantihealer]

Michelangeli can sound glacial, as people say. But here his elan, finesse, panache, is sooo Debussy. Everybody's favourite uncle doesn't play like this. And Michelangeli at his finest doesn't walk on water. He pirouettes on it. He makes love to the keys. How he gets away with being this outrageous, aesthetic rhapsodic, romantic without falling into a blubbering mess is well, the legend.

[jkai0025]

My sister plays this...I like the way she plays it better beleive it or not. His way is a bit more choppy and such. It's just interpretation I know, but my sister's interpretation is more soft and dreamy. I like that better.

[marmin74]

Favorite of all the preludes. Thanks for posting this!

[ianguitar]

i agree..this music is a great peace...no words for that.

[Alessandro1985]

This is some of the greatest music ever written.