Claude Debussy (1862-1918): "Il pleure dans mon coeur"

[rachelfryer]

Is there anything else of Debussy playing? I'd love to hear more...

[ricardo00004170]

gracias por esta joya. aunque se escuche apenas el piano del maestro que abrio la cabeza a un siglo de sucesores. ojala alguien la restaure algun dia y ponga esas teclas en primer plano, gracias una vez mas. hermoso regalo y sorpresa.

ricardo moyano

[TheKsk1997]

P. Verlaine's poem modified.

[floorembden]

Un oiseau chante… Un merle… On ne l’entend qu’à peine…

Un premier merle au ciel prend des reflets de laine,

Tresse les bords du jour comme d’échos discrets…

Peu de lumière encor pour appuyer ses traits.

Nul messager que lui, pour cette entrée en scène…

Mais ces reflets, ce ciel… Un peu « façon Verlaine »…

[floorembden]

(II) La note fraîche, frêle, en perles d’eau s’égrène

Comme un ruisseau très clair longe un trottoir de grès.

Mais au moins lui, l’oiseau, peut vous parler de près…

Moi l’aube, moi l’aurore avive mes regrets

De ne pouvoir chanter qu’une clarté lointaine.

(anonyme)

[Fuliginosus]

I wish Debussy had said something at the end.

[Virginielie]

It is a beautiful " voice " for Debussy's melodies ...

[Varese52]

Debussy's post-romantic aesthetic shouldn't be understood to mean that absolutely no rubato should be used where appropriate. I think that the steady tempo in this song refers directly to its title, literally: "It rains in my heart". Rain, of course, comes down steadily, without rubato. On the other hand, Debussy is generally very specific in the instructions one finds in his scores and, not infrequently, he does invite a good deal of flexibility in the performance of his works.

[demosj]

I'm confused, how can the soprano's voice be recorded with the piano roll?

[GeorgeEnescu]

This one is not a piano roll - it's an actual acoustic recording from 1904.

[operagirl89]

How wonderful it is being able to hear Debussy playing his own music! Thank you for posting this!

[iiii1234567]

incredible

[cynic150]

Yes, what is described in your notes above is proved true in this recording and others. Debussy's music should not be played in an over-sentimental way. See how he keeps the beat going until the very end. Marvelous. a good lesson for the young.

[yearlings]

Cynic150

I agree totally with you about Debussy's music not being played over romantically. It is almost anti-romantic. And the same goes even more for Satie. Debussy always complained that his music was performed too loudly as well.

[MyMymble]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

I adore Debussy and it is just great to hear him playing.

[sofiaclassic91]

amazing!

[sunlitporch]

just great!

[zafireh]

i love the songs of debussy!!!!

[Freotheric]

It's worth noting that Mary Garden also created the role of Mélisande in 1902 -- at Debussy's insistance. What a perfect voice she had for this music!

[MagiMysteryTour]

She claimed he also declared to her he was in love with her. She said she wasn't physically attracted to him, and she was also fond of hiw wife Lili.

Soon after, he left Lili for Emma Bardac, the mother of his daughter ChouChou.

In the 1920's Mary Garden was the director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

She said the wax cylinders were horrible, they kept spraying hot wax everywhere.

[ratisbon]

Surely this isn't a piano roll but a wax cylinder??

[d60944]

Yes, this is one of the recordings I mentioned accompanying Mary Garden in 1904. The recordings are flat discs, not wax rolls, for the G&T company.

[dahnbi]

Ooohhh, I *love* this mélodie! Thanks for posting it!