Debussy Feux d'artifice

[pianoville]

Enjoy!

[thirtytwo2020]

I certainly did!

[dogperson]

Thanks so very much for posting!  👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[pianoville]

Thanks so very much for posting!  👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you for listening!

[fftransform]

The hard parts are nice and clean, but it isn't a very exciting interpretation, is it?  It never feels like it's on the edge or in danger of being out of control; I think it should.  All the passages seem very disparate, one vignette and then onto another, rather than a cohesive strategy to develop drama.  I liked the choice to play some of the segments more slowly, but it seems like a performance without a climax, when this piece should have several.  I would also experiment with more extreme ranges of touch to try to bring in a more exotic sound in a couple passages; it is a showpiece, after all.

Listen to the performances by Entremont, (G) Ginzburg, and Canino.

[pianoville]

The hard parts are nice and clean, but it isn't a very exciting interpretation, is it?  It never feels like it's on the edge or in danger of being out of control; I think it should.  All the passages seem very disparate, one vignette and then onto another, rather than a cohesive strategy to develop drama.  I liked the choice to play some of the segments more slowly, but it seems like a performance without a climax, when this piece should have several.  I would also experiment with more extreme ranges of touch to try to bring in a more exotic sound in a couple passages; it is a showpiece, after all.

Listen to the performances by Entremont, (G) Ginzburg, and Canino.
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Thank you for the comment. I agree with you for the most part. I think you have to think about all of the different aspects though. Of course as you said a performance needs to be exciting to catch peoples attention. But seeing it as just a showpiece is a very one-dimensional way to look at it in my opinion. For me, Debussy is all about the colors, and as Debussy himself said, the silence between the notes. But thank you for your advice, I'll take it into consideration!