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Topic: [Video] The Girl With Flaxen Hair - Claude Debussy  (Read 2755 times)

Offline lafo

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[Video] The Girl With Flaxen Hair - Claude Debussy
on: September 06, 2016, 10:50:36 AM
Decided to try and record this today :) Hope you  will like it :)

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Re: [Video] The Girl With Flaxen Hair - Claude Debussy
Reply #1 on: September 06, 2016, 01:16:48 PM
I love this piece! Nice pedaling and dynamic contrast throughout! I must say, though, that the frequent and abrupt changes in tempo feel less like rubato than like someone playing who doesn't quite understand how the different note values relate to each other. It interrupted the flow of the piece (but that may feel more extreme to me because I first played this in the late 80s so am very used to the way I play it). Thank you for sharing!

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Re: [Video] The Girl With Flaxen Hair - Claude Debussy
Reply #2 on: September 06, 2016, 01:29:26 PM
lovely playing. a great set of pieces but this one sticks with me as it is a piece of my youth as it was part of my  competition and audition repertoire which i used as part of my program to secure music school admission and scholarships.
I think recording this on grand and using the una corda in sports, including partial una corda to give even more color contrast to different parts would make it even better but these are small details, i'm talking about going from a 9+ to a 9++
thanks for sharing. :)

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Re: [Video] The Girl With Flaxen Hair - Claude Debussy
Reply #3 on: September 06, 2016, 03:52:21 PM
I love this piece! Nice pedaling and dynamic contrast throughout! I must say, though, that the frequent and abrupt changes in tempo feel less like rubato than like someone playing who doesn't quite understand how the different note values relate to each other. It interrupted the flow of the piece (but that may feel more extreme to me because I first played this in the late 80s so am very used to the way I play it). Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for you rcomment! :) I agree it sounds a bit hastily in my opinion.. i will try again on  better pinao and record it again like visitor suggests :)

lovely playing. a great set of pieces but this one sticks with me as it is a piece of my youth as it was part of my  competition and audition repertoire which i used as part of my program to secure music school admission and scholarships.
I think recording this on grand and using the una corda in sports, including partial una corda to give even more color contrast to different parts would make it even better but these are small details, i'm talking about going from a 9+ to a 9++
thanks for sharing. :)

Thank you very much!! :)) I will take your advise and record it again when i have the chance to play on a better piano :)
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