Chopin's Nocturne op.27 nr.2

[wafflycat]

OOOH, Debussy...

One of my favourite ever albums is one of various Debussy bits 'Snowflakes are Dancing' done electronically by Japanese artist, Tomita. I listened to the original vinyl recording in the seventies...

 

[betty swollocks]

OOOH, Debussy...

One of my favourite ever albums is one of various Debussy bits 'Snowflakes are Dancing' done electronically by Japanese artist, Tomita. I listened to the original vinyl recording in the seventies...

Got those. He did a version of Debussy's Arabesque which, IMHO captured the mood of the piece perfectly.

 

[GaryA]

And one of the most sublime moments of my life was hearing a completely mad but awesomely talented friend of mine playing one of Chopin's Nocturnes in a completely deserted chapel in one of the Oxford colleges... it was, as Gary says, a justification in itself for the existence of humanity.

That had just triggered one of my supreme memories
About 5 yrs ago i was walking around Wallington Hall, a national trust property in Northumberland, it was a quiet sunny midweek day and the place was nearly deserted... in the main hall one of the curators/muscians was tuning up the piano he started playing excerpts from Debussys childrens corner....the echo resonance sound quality was incredible..the hairs on the back of my neck stood up as i walked around admiring the paintings but lost in another world only then did i really appreciate how incredibly powerful and reverential music must have been before the recording age- and how privilidged we are now

 

[Dayvo]

Something a bit more contemporary - but it's 20+ years old now!

Bruce Hornsby


View: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7C4Z2ggtnL0

 

[Dayvo]

And this was pretty good too (after 3 minutes)!

Alan Price


View: http://youtube.com/watch?v=tlMjSESoz9A