Comments on: Claire de Ocean http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/ Movies, Music, and Musings Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:11:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Brandon Mason http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/#comment-28837 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:55:12 +0000 http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/#comment-28837 Also, ha! forgot - The keboard guy from STYX !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! has an orchestral version/w piano which is pretty dam good, even though I'm a near purist on format. I wonder if anyone in Debussy's lifetime ever transposed this for anything more than a solo performance. I certainly can't see him doing so..... Ya, that's 88 keys up yonder ^ ! Also, ha! forgot - The keboard guy from STYX

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has an orchestral version/w piano which is pretty dam good, even though I’m a near purist on format. I wonder if anyone in Debussy’s lifetime ever transposed this for anything more than a solo performance. I certainly can’t see him doing so…..

Ya, that’s 88 keys up yonder ^ !

]]> by: Brandon Mason http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/#comment-28836 Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:48:24 +0000 http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/#comment-28836 Ya. There are more robust, more formidably brilliant pieces for the piano (from all the Usual Suspects) but IMAHO, Clare de Lune is the most exquisite, elegant, and subtly rich piece composed - ever. Debussy did so much more with less. His tone-base and key balancing/shifting and tempo rubato are a miracle. And although the piece throughout is largely pianissimo, his use of bass was/still imparts suprise w/strength, yet with somehow simple/subtle supportiveness. I could go on and on and sap things up too much, but instead offer my favorite version - Rendition by Cecile Ousset on the DENON label, from an anthology album of classics. Ya. There are more robust, more formidably brilliant pieces for the piano (from all the Usual Suspects) but IMAHO, Clare de Lune is the most exquisite, elegant, and subtly rich piece composed - ever. Debussy did so much more with less. His tone-base and key balancing/shifting and tempo rubato are a miracle. And although the piece throughout is largely pianissimo, his use of bass was/still imparts suprise w/strength, yet with somehow simple/subtle supportiveness. I could go on and on and sap things up too much, but instead offer my favorite version -

Rendition by Cecile Ousset on the DENON label, from an anthology album of classics.

]]> by: Anonymous http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/#comment-19211 Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:58:13 +0000 http://howardwho.com/blog/2007/06/17/claire-de-ocean/#comment-19211 That wonderful piece of music is also played a lot in ren and stimpy That wonderful piece of music is also played a lot in ren and stimpy

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