Thanks for your detailed comments! Yes - this was the opening of a very big program, there was a Bach partita follow, the entire Brahms 3rd sonata, and a bunch of virtuoso show pieces. My hands were cold, and frankly, the piano was crap. So I thought this piece, which was hastily learned, would be a good warm-up and sort of cast a spell on the audience to get them in the mood for active listening. Alas, Debussy is tough This was the only time I performed it actually.About the unevenness, both in terms of the line and the timing... I chose to bring a more individualist and rubato-infused approach to this piece than most do or would. Impressionist music is often thought to require a detachment, a third-person perspective, often cold. Not the emotions-on-the-sleeve kind of stuff you get with the Romantic period... I get the merit in this, and I think that approach would have made so much more "sense" for this piece, but when Debussy writes such vocal, lyrical melodies, well it's easy to want to inject an individualist's spirit. To say it in another way, I feel right at home listening to Cortot or Horowitz, no matter what it is
Topic: Video: Debussy, Rêverie - Live Concert 