RICHARD CLAYDERMAN: A Comme Amour

[candlelightpiano]

Reviving some Richard Clayderman pieces I used to love and play way back when.  I always think this piece sounds lovely in a large, empty room.  There's a feeling of loneliness that is pervasive and a sense of longing.  Please feel free to post comment here and on my youtube page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDdxTE8DJYQ

[josh93248]

I'm pretty unfamiliar with Clayderman but I think that even though it is quite simple, this piece has raised my opinion of him

Your playing is quite decent, there are only some very small hesitations and minor things like that. My main problem is the recording quality, it's bad enough that it prevents me from fully enjoying the piece. What are you using?

[schumaniac]

I feel the same as josh- you did make hesitations; perhaps they were intentional/musical... The arpeggios in the piece could also have been smoother; they semeed to have affected the "flow" of the music. In any case, the issues are pretty minor.

And I too, now appreciate Clayderman more, though he is not a "composing giant" like Beethoven, beautiful as this piece is  

I was not so bothered by the recording quality though, despite it's compressedness. (Phone recording?) In fact, I prefer this to how Clayderman played it, backed up w/ strings and that bright piano sound...!

[candlelightpiano]

Thanks, Schumaniac and Josh.  I record with my Panasonic Lumix camera.  I'm unable to use an external mic with it.  As for the hesitations its just my style of playing and feeling the music.  Yeah the arps could be smoother, I agree.  With more practice it will be.