Debussy Gradus ad Parnassum

My daughter Clemence, 13yo, performing Debussy's Gradus ad parnassum. The piano is a high end hand-made Shigeru Kawai SK3 (186cm).

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Music

Tags:

• piano
• classical
• debussy
• gradus
• parnassum
• shigeru
• kawai

[allsop18923]

Hate to nit pick but I dont think thats an SK3 because of the styling of the legs

[pounemoule38]

Sorry but it is an SK3. It seems you are not up to date about Shigeru design ! You can also imagine that the styling in Europe is different from the one used for US market. Just visit Kawai France, you'll see.

[maywerestinpeace]

i love the wardrobe in the back, does aslan come out of there some nights to watch you play?

[sammiekrocks123]

tempo was a bit off in places

amazing though

i'm learning this piece and i'm a year older

having a lot of difficulty with it

you're soooooooooo good

i liked that you didn't play too fast - so many people play it way too fast.

[SpaceAgeOdyssey]

WONDERFUL INTERPRETATION! I think your daughter did Debussy Proud here !

[carstrucksvans123]

can i sleep with your daughter

[carstrucksvans123]

she's hot!

[TheRealrocker74]

@pnmack79 it's MAINLY in C. Obviously I have had to look at more than the first page since I can play the whole thing. Just because it uses chords that aren't in C and secondary dominants, doesn't mean the key is going all over the place. Brush up on your music theory. It starts in C, ends in C and for the majority of the song is in C. No one says, it's in C....and F# phrygian for 6 measures.

[pnmack79]

@TheRealrocker74 it's not just in C... maybe you only looked at the first page.

[pnmack79]

This is the fourth rendition of this piece I've listened to on youtube so far and it's by far the most enjoyable.

[TheFritz24]

There are everywhere on youtube only versions of this song played very fast and without any feelings, now i hear this great version, not to fast beautiful performed and iam really happy about it, thanks!

[TheRealrocker74]

@sammiekrocks123 well it's Debussy's take on an "exercise", it is quite satirical. So people play it extremely fast as a way to show off their technical skills because after all it's more of an "exercise" than a piece of music. It is extremely technically demanding but not very musically difficult. I mean, take a look at it, it's most in C major and there are hardly any dominant seconds with no modal changes at all really except for the augmented arpeggio at the end.

[chrysevstar]

I like this interpretation more than most of them on the internet because of the pedal and the SLOWER SPEED :D

5 stars

[Killua40]

I wish I can have a SK3..it's now costs 15000 euro in China....Too expensive for me ...and I don't have place to put = = 'need a house first..