Debussy Clair de Lune Jonathan Plowright piano

This was recorded at live 'dinner recital' given by Jonathan Plowright in Dublin, Ireland, on 14th June 2008, at the Stephens Green Hibernian Club, on a Steinway Model D.

"Clair de lune", in D flat major, is one of the most beloved pieces in the piano repertoire.

It is the third movement of Claude Debussy's piano suite Suite bergamasque, written in 1890 and published in 1903. This movement was probably influenced by Paul Verlaine's poem of the same name, which was part of Verlaine's collection "Fêtes galantes" (1869):

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

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• Plowright
• Debussy
• Clair
• de
• Lune
• piano
• Romantic

[Ewqa8]

Like from another planet. Such a tenderness and subtlety. Exquisite!!!

[29786413ikduhwe]

absoutly magical

[Artschampion2004]

beautiful!

[ijpnocturne]

Magical sound,full of sensitivity,and very intimate!!!!!!he's always a pleasure to listen,whatever he plays!!!!!!!!