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Debussy’s ‘La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin’ ('The Girl with the Flaxen Hair’) is the eighth piece in Debussy’s magnificent and groundbreaking first book of Preludes, completed in 1910. Its appearance of artless simplicity and innocence belies the sophistication of its construction. Debussy's evocation of folk-like melodies with a wonderfully fresh harmonic vocabulary, based on chains of thirds, and coloured by plagal, pentatonic and modal elements, gives rise to breathtaking pianistic colours. Debussy’s own piano playing was remarkable for the “delicacy and mellowness of his touch” and he frequently said, “one must forget that the piano has hammers.”
Debussy: ‘La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin’
Pianist: Matthew King.
Recording engineer: Alexandre Allix
You can hear a recording of a piano roll of Debussy himself playing this prelude here: youtube.com/watch?v=wv8iHEM4g7Q&ab_channel=Adagietto
You can hear the legendary Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo playing this prelude in Paris in 1979: youtube.com/watch?v=i-7ZsJo_CjE&t=20s&ab_channel=ArturoBenedettiMichelangeli
A more recent recording by Vikingur Ólafsson can be heard here: youtube.com/watch?v=6KzMLnRNliY&ab_channel=DeutscheGrammophon-DG
#Debussy #Thegirlwiththeflaxenhair #themusicprofessor
Edited by Ian Coulter ( iancoultermusic.com )
Produced and directed by Ian Coulter & Matthew King
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Debussy’s ‘La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin’ ('The Girl with the Flaxen Hair’) is the eighth piece in Debussy’s magnificent and groundbreaking first book of Preludes, completed in 1910. Its appearance of artless simplicity and innocence belies the sophistication of its construction. Debussy's evocation of folk-like melodies with a wonderfully fresh harmonic vocabulary, based on chains of thirds, and coloured by plagal, pentatonic and modal elements, gives rise to breathtaking pianistic colours. Debussy’s own piano playing was remarkable for the “delicacy and mellowness of his touch” and he frequently said, “one must forget that the piano has hammers.”
Debussy: ‘La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin’
Pianist: Matthew King.
Recording engineer: Alexandre Allix
You can hear a recording of a piano roll of Debussy himself playing this prelude here: youtube.com/watch?v=wv8iHEM4g7Q&ab_channel=Adagietto
You can hear the legendary Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo playing this prelude in Paris in 1979: youtube.com/watch?v=i-7ZsJo_CjE&t=20s&ab_channel=ArturoBenedettiMichelangeli
A more recent recording by Vikingur Ólafsson can be heard here: youtube.com/watch?v=6KzMLnRNliY&ab_channel=DeutscheGrammophon-DG
#Debussy #Thegirlwiththeflaxenhair #themusicprofessor
Edited by Ian Coulter ( iancoultermusic.com )
Produced and directed by Ian Coulter & Matthew King
