Debussy - Arabesque No. 1 (Ciccolini)
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2024
- Arabesque No. 1 from Deux Arabesques
Aldo Ciccolini, piano
The Deux arabesques, L. 66 (Two Arabesques) is a pair of arabesques composed by Claude Debussy. The arabesques are two of Debussy's earliest works, composed between the years 1888 and 1891. Debussy was still in his twenties. Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussy's developing musical style. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes through music. This arabesque is in the key of E major. Like most impressionistic pieces for the piano, the opening arpeggio can suggest water flow. It eventually leads into a larger section beginning with a left hand arpeggio in E major and a descending right hand E major pentatonic progression. After a lightening of tone, the original progression returns and varies itself, turning briefly to F-sharp major, before returning to a satisfying E major section close. The second quieter B section is in A major, which starts with a gesture (E-D-E-C#), builds with rising triplets in the right hand and octaves in the left. The section ends with a bold pronouncement of the E-D-E-C# gesture, but transposed to the key of C major, played forte. The gesture is repeated in a higher register, with slight modifications resulting in a transposition back to the E major of the A section. In the middle of the recapitulation of the A section, the music moves to a higher register and descends, followed by a large pentatonic scale ascending and descending, becoming a V7 chord (B7), and resolving back to E major, before the descending right hand E major pentatonic progression is played an octave up. Both hands rise up the keyboard and closes with gentle E major chords.
Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
I used to come home from school and hear my mother practicing this piece on our huge upright piano, picking her way through the long runs a measure at a time. I heard it on a TV show today and started crying. She's been gone for five years now, and I miss her so much. When I hear Debussy, it's like she's still here.
May she rest in peace and continue playing up in the heavens, one measure at a time.
Aww :( , my condolence 🙏
Damn
I understand, when music runs in the family the favorite song of the first becomes the saddest of the next. Beautiful yet heart wrenching in memory and love. Music runs in my family, and I miss my old grandmother before she got Alzheimer’s. Sonata no. 1 opus 20 by Kulah hits a bit different when you remember your grandmother sitting down to play it.
Made me cry
The reason why I love Debussy's music so much is beacause it is SO different, delicate, colorful and rich! He has this kind of air-water feeling in his music. It's fluid and crystal just like water and light just like air.
Couldn't describe my feelings regarding his music any better
Alexander desplat took a page out of Debussy’s playbook when he composed the score for the shape of water ❤️
In a word...Yes.
Basically his music can be played in 1000 different, but beautiful ways
Debussy's music paints an image in my mind, the connection between vision and sound, ethereal.
nice to see composers supporting each other
Frédéric François Chopin oh god why did I listen to winter wind a Russian bomb destroyed my house y u do dis thank god my internet cables are good
So true, For me the same.
the same for me...
FUCK you
It's so interesting, how different composers sound like. With Claude Debussy's music it always feels like I am high up in the clouds, dreaming. It is so chill and so beautiful.
Some musicians ability to create a piece of artwork with no words but you can tell exactly what it’s saying by what you feel is so amazing. It’s really powerful stuff
I want to live in this beautiful song
+katierose5683 me too
+katierose5683
i do
Oh what a beautiful thing. . .
which note would you like to be, or which notation or dynamic marks
Stefaan Alśnkimot I wanna be the treble clef
When I listen to this, I feel like I’m living inside one of Monet’s paintings.
This is honestly the most accurate way to describe this piece
@@Rupnisha1400 agree
I've never seen the connection
Monet's work is blurred, literally given an "impression". Debussy's music on the hand, is precise, detailed, and to me, as clear as crystal.
Also, it wasn't the Impressionist painters that influenced Debussy, but the Impressionist writers (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, etc.).
Same with Ravel.
@@RichardPJohnMusic I live in a Baudelaire story.
@@RichardPJohnMusic Debussy uses augmented triads (naturally whole-tone) and unresolved seventh and ninth chords. His music, compared to Mozart, is vague and hazy.
I used to play this quite often. Since high school life attacked, and I had to chase my dream going to university, I lost my ability playing this. Sad but i couldnt do nothing. This song's still as beautiful as I thought before.💗
I read this and saw my life reflected in this one comment
@@claudiafesko6227 me too
Relatable
I never knew how to play this, even though high school life gave me opportunities.
Your comment is basically the opposite of my experience. Except that I'm also sad, but I can't do anything to change the past.
And that this song is beautiful, though I've never heard this before.
You can still practice no matter what!
Such a dreamy song
Maybe that's why the piece is so good
*Truth*
Granted, piece/composition is the term to be used here, not song, it still isn't a cringe-worthy mistake. Everyone learns these sort of distinctions starting somewhere. It's the intent of the comment that matters more.
You mean dreary!!
piece*
This is one of the best interpretations I've found, honestly.
Agreed. He made the parts with ritardando sound heavenly.
It's WAYYYYYYYYY too fast. It's marked andantino!
almightyhydra this is one of the best interpretations regardless of markings. Ciccolini’s tempo is heavenly, it conveys meaning excellently
I have to say I prefer Menahem Pressler version better.
Agreed. Some play it sooo fast and it takes some of its beauty away. This version is how I interpret and play it too (just not as well 😂)
Debussy is one of my favorite composers. His compositions truly captures the raw emotion that a heart should feel.
Its all about that rubato and awareness of/range of harmonies/harmonic progressions... And melodies that can wander a little as well...
About two years ago I heard someone playing this piece, and forgot to ask the name. I searched for months, but eventually gave up hope (I have a really irritating feeling when this happens). Tonight, out of pure luck, this came on, and I immediately recognized it. I LOVE MUSIC!
I like Debussy's style. His pieces always make you feel like floating in an endless valley of clouds.
This rendition is simply heavenly. I'm learning it and the polyrhythms are killing me but they sound so easy under Ciccolini's hands!
Thats how it should be. Debussy should feel soft and smooth and take you to a different world
Ive listened to this piece before but after watching “All About Lily Chou-Chou” I had to revisit. This is pure beauty, simply that ❤️
all about lily chou chou is a masterpiece
@@koracIes I agree! The immersion was done extremely well, both with the film direction and soundtrack. That made it especially heart-wrenching to watch haha
Hi, I discovered this piece for that movie. Then went on listening more of his music and became one my favorite composers.
@@alejandrotorves6483 thats awesome!!! I think it did the same for me and now im relistening to Debussy and my other favorite classical music artists 😆
I studied piano with Aldo Ciccolini for many years here in Italy. I therefore say quite clearly that he was a great man, a passionate teacher and one of the greatest pianists of all time.
😮
Such a lovely piece if only I could play it........
Just go and practice!
Try taking it slow at first, if you can get it perfectly while playing at a slow tempo, then it will be easy to scale up the tempo.
try to crush a picnic and you'll be able to play it
Yes; just have a go at learning! This piece is actually not that difficult.
well, not that difficult compare to Beethoven sonata in f minor..
I love this piece because it’s romantic and it’s sounds soooooooooooo nice!
it is impressionist not romantic
@@ammyvl1 I think they mean the piece sounds romantic. Like not the era of music romantic but the adjective romantic- xd
I feel like a bird that never stops flying while listening to this song. It makes me calm and it makes me think of traveling to a place like San Francisco and not hearing anything but this song. Enjoying the view of the city from above is like viewing art work in a museum. There are so many different paintings to look at but you stop in front of one and stair at it for a while, as you go into a haze of creativity and imagination. Not stopping until you hear a sound or see a gesture of someone or something in the background. And in that moment you feel your feet hit the ground again as if before you were lifted into air. Going back into reality, you wish you could have stayed in that moment a little longer. Never wanting to leave that moment of pure serenity and tranquillity.
Perfectly described. 👍
This interpretation has the most natural flow, it is so rare and exactly what I’ve been looking for!
It sounds corny, but I imagine this must be what falling in love feels like. The way the piece sounds, I mean.
I cannot express in words how much I love this comment (well, without sounding super pretentious anyways).
A boy I fell in love with played this song on the piano every time he went to practice. We're not friends anymore, but every time I listen to this I think of him.
Jonathan Eldridge that means the music is simply doing it's job. Pieces are such mysteries. The composers could tell you it means anything, but it means something different to everyone and every time it's played, it's a different piece
You’ve never fallen in love ?
You're goddamn right.
I love this song so much. I am currently playing Clair De Lune and this is next on my list. Debussy is definatley one of my favorites. He created the most beautiful, expressive music I have ever heard.
Listen to Scriabin
my mother used to play this for my grandmother all the time. love you grandma.
어렸을때 많이 들어서 그런지 몰라도 이 곡만 들으면 맘이 편안해져요..
When I hear this, I imagine a feather or leaf on the desert wind, flitting and going on a journey.
MrPaladin555 ur thoughts are beautiful :)
Thank you. :)
How poetic
Such a spring song. The way the song moves reminds me of how warm winds bring spring in 😊
This is the most romantic performance among those of Debussy's works I've heard recently.
My close friend played this during our time at university. This is the first time I’ve heard this in close to 8 years and I can’t explain the feeling
This piece always reminds me of a flowing river, with crystal clear water at a spring afternoon
God I love this piece. Learning it at the moment and it’s a pleasure to play. The dynamic freedom is refreshing, I haven’t heard two recordings that are the same tempo yet.
Absolutely beautiful. This piece's beauty is beyond words- and the interpretation is breathtaking
When I listen to Arabesque, I feel like a bird, flying, higher and higher. Into the clouds, I can find bad clouds, a storm, but I always at the end find the sun, and the magical cloud of Nice. And obviously it's better when you play it by yourself...
lol
Have you heard Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending?
I feel like it's a city/family/holiday song...being together. How manmade things are sometimes, but rarely, beautiful too.
I also feel like this. Like it would be better to be a bird, and just fly around with nothing to worry. I used to think about this a lot when I was a kid, now I'm an adult and this piece reminds me of these thoughts. That's maybe why I love it so much.
Look after drugs you use, it could be dangerous.
Excellent work from Debussy! This proves why he's among my favorite composers.
The Triplets, in my mind at least, really captures the image of a subtle picnic.
Yes. A majestic picnic that is amplified by a resplendent man in pink, who harmoniously becomes one with the picnic as he descends from his flight. Absolutely fucking glorious!!
100/10
his triplets are literally wtf !
Okay this one got me, solid 8/10 meme
That is non sensical Bs , Don't contaminate art with your stupid pseudo-imagination.
@@mindfreakzero2 Ah. If only you knew.
When I walk through the park, I always look at my feet, because that is what Abigail and I used to do. When it rained, we always ran back to the apartment, giggling increasingly harder with every step. We would sit by the window sill and pretend that on the other side of that window, was the perfect world, where there was no pain, where there was no sadness... no cancer.. But when we couldn't imagine a better world we would go out to the park again and look at the reflection of our feet, or the ripples we made on the puddles. "Arm in arm happiness lies, you just need to discover the right arm."
But when I walk, I look at my feet, and when it rains I skip back to the small, quaint, little apartment and gaze out the window. I do this because in that perfect world that I imagine, I imagine her just on the other side of the glass.
Just wrote something while inspired by the music
Joshua Cronk i just cried... really. i felt it.
María Paula Pinto Beauty is in one of its strongest forms when emotion is portrayed in the form of sadness. We just need to see past the sorrow
Joshua Cronk Quite true indeed. Man, those were some powerful lines. They reminded me of this novel, Rayuela, by Julio Cortazar. Probably the best novel ever written in spanish. Thanks for sharing that.
Juan Pablo Terrazas Wow, thank you for your nice compliments, I'll be sure to check it out, I'm sure I can try to translate it! Thank you :D
Ever since I started piano in high school until now, this has been the only piece to have stayed with me
This piece was in a dream I had once when I was four. I was lost looking for my mom in this beautiful building. No one seemed to notice me . I felt so calm yet afraid at the same time. I always remembered this piece but never knew it until now.
Feels like the arrival of springtime. So light and uplifting and carefree. Some of you will remember the Tomita version that was used as the theme for Jack Horkheimer's Star Hustler educational videos on PBS in the 1980s & 1990s.
Favorite piece of all time and I really love how Aldo Ciccolini plays it
Literally just started learning this, love it to pieces. Debussy works in finger patterns so much! It helps that my teacher was taught by someone who was taught by Debussy :D
One of the best composers of our time, with all his magical works among many, he has made the word a better place for being whom he is.
What a beautiful song and comments. When I hear to this song, I felt like sleeping on clouds and look under the city
1:14 That piano 🔥
Such a lovely simple song, quickly to memorize. I Love it!
Tonight after working on playing this piece for...11 years or so...I've realized this indeed is the work of pure genius.
I was 16 when I first heard this piece of music. When it got to the section that starts at 1:30, I thought "this guy understands me".
+Ed Evans soo true. Felt the same when i heard Arabesque first. Love that section.
I was 15
OnlyMichaelJackson (Angel) this ain't a competition lmao
Ben Atchison
?? I'm just trying to make a comment, thank you.
I was 6
This Arabesque is among the most beautiful pieces of music ever written
not only is this song amazing gorgeous, it's also extremely fun to play. THANKS DEBUSSY :)
I really wish I knew how to read music and play piano well I have so many pieces of music that I wanna learn
Amen😂
how hard is it? think i could handle it if i can play Dr Gradus ad Parnassum (albeit not very elegantly haha)
The compositions of Claude Debussy are so bezutiful. Clair De lune, Petite Siite and this beautiful composition.
I restore faith in humanity every time I listen to this piece
see the comments and you'll regret of your saying
it whispers into the depths of my soul, its beautiful melody echoing in my ears. Soooo beautiful...
Beautiful. In memoriam Mário Viegas (Portugal, 1948-1996).
Such a beautiful magnificient piece of Debussy that captured me when i heard it
I played this for many years from memory- love it
I remember when I was young we used to have a digital piano - a Roland f-90. And in the evening when I was meant to be doing piano practise I would just sit listening to this piece (I had no idea what it was called) as it was the first piece on the piano demo songs. I just loved it, sitting there, on my own looking out the window, with this playing, it was bliss. And now some 7 or 8 years later have I only just found it.
Wow, talk about nostalgia.
Such beauty. Who knows what inspired this incredible piece. Only the maker. And that is where the beauty is fulfilled.
The polyrhythms killed me
@@aaditshrivastavamusic good for you
try to practice with only your hands too much when u are doing nothing, just " together- right-left-right-together" that make it a kinda easy, almost for me good luck :)
It's been 4 months since I posted this comment, I finished the whole piece I think more than a month ago and the polyrhythms are just a breeze to me now. Consistent practice is key!
@@blenli good job!!
I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I wish I did.
Debussy's beautiful composions have enriched the lives of countless people.
Esto me inspira mi Arabesque de Debussy. Todas las mañanas sale el Sol, el corazón late calladamente y nuevamente abrimos los ojos ante otro día que nos da todas las posibilidades de ser felices, en las más pequeñas cosas. Tus sentimientos sean los que sean, son los que fluyen. Observa el paisaje que ellos mismos crean y a partir de ahí siente que eres el artista que crea diferentes paisajes con lo que hay haciéndose consciente de ello. Disfruta hoy de tu mierda de día o de tu día único y especial. Tu eres el autor al final.
Redirigiendo mi día....
Months ago, I watched the anime "Super Cub" (an anime about motorbike) and heard this piece played at the start of the first episode.
Today, Oct 11th 2022, I cleaned up my old PC and found this piece, which I copied from a book to a music sheet software on Aug 11th 2011. That time is not so long before I graduated from college. SO NOSTALGIC!
This makes me want to stand up and improv a whole ballet routine, even though I haven’t done ballet since I was 10!!
This is the best interpretation i have heard so far. Impressionistic!
Very well done. This piece made me cry.
Traurigkeit und Freude zugleich zu vermitteln, eine Kunst!
my favourite of all times.. I need to start playing it again ♡
warning: it's kinda hard at start.
Me2.
Debussy is a genius!!!! Just listening to Arabesque soothes my soul...
I am so in love with it!😢❤ I'm just learning this one and I can't wait until I'll be able to play this!😍
Thanks for this wonderful demostration.
This song reminds me of this time when a dude dressed in a pink lycra suit crashed into my picnic.
+I like batman I think Mason G might have an explanation to that.............
I like batman isn't that from filthy Frank?
Guitar Gamer Why yes it is.
I like Debussy
Wtf is Filthy Frank doing here ? On which video did he do that ?
Honestly, I think this piece is really played well. I felt like crying when I first heard this song. I am playing this song but there is so much difference.
His crescendos and diminuendo, his pauses.... though a bit fast, all in all, I love Aldo Ciccolini's performance... Thank you so much for sharing this video !!!!
Takes me back to my childhood. PBS channel
This is perfection. I am going to look for the sheet right now!
The perfect piece to play it at an isolated house in the middle of a sunset ,in the balcony and when you finish this master piece the sun will set.
The 11 people who dislike this are all drummers.
I'm a drummer. I love this music . But the comment was funny😂
Yes lol
@@eduardoespino6474 me too! I don’t get how drummers would hate classical music though, playing modern musical genres doesn't necessarily mean you hate classical pieces like this
People who dislike this listen to reggaeton
@@ckchang-wg2lw I agree with you.
This makes me feel like I'm on a park bench, overlooking a lake in late autumn, watching the first snow fall of winter, while thinking about life. 🍂🍁❄🌫
Every time I listen to this piece, I cry 😭😭❤️❤️🤧🤧
i'm learning this piece and i love it so much. at first i wasn't sure about it but i'm so glad my teacher picked it out for me
Touching my soul
Love this piece so much. My mom's favorite to play when I was young and I'd actually sit and listen aha
I consider myself a classical music expert but for some reason I never knew who wrote this piece, or its title. I first heard it as a very, VERY young kid and it was always "that piece in E major that sounds like running water!" Shame on me for not knowing what it was until...like right now.
You are no classical music expert if you don’t even know what this piece is or by whom it is by…….. very easy piano repertoire that’s so widely known I would find it extremely hard to believe you wouldn’t know this as a “classical music expert” - vanity right there too
@@thedevilsreject23 Okay, now that you're done trying to insult me and my intelligence - and my TOTALLY not taking offense at it and laughing at how pathetic the attempt was - please remind me never to listen to any of your so-called music making. I'm sure you totally suck as an organist, probably because you spend time trolling on youtube instead of disciplined practicing. So, now that we have all this out of the way, I will tell you that I am a violinist and the most difficult concerti in my repertoire are those of Berg, Walton, and Sibelius. I have played the instrument since age 11. Once in awhile, a piece title/composer evades us - it happens to you too, but of course, you're just too prideful to admit it. This Debussy Arabesque was one of a very few like that for me. I studied the piano but never became an advanced pianist. Don't have a nice day. And go practice instead of being a total idiot. LOL
@@thedevilsreject23 Yeah whatever, trollbaby. I'd call your comments vain as well, to say a minimum. Obviously music is not really your strong suit either, and that's why you're on here grousing. Frustrated armchair wannabe musician who doesnt' even have any videos of their playing posted. SMH LOL. Try to keep up.
@@BenjiOrthopedic cool that you're into 20th century classical. I like it too. Debussy is my favorite though. Ravel and Debussy just really do it for me. Nice reply to idiot organ dude, who obviously doesn't have half a clue. And your comment got 20 raised thumbs so there u go.
@@hendrieshowfan4ever942 some people just suck. Moronic armchair musicians who can't play for sh*t and spend their lives trolling on comment threads, adding nothing productive. Makes them feel better about themselves I guess, in their pathetic world of isolation/invisibility. Anyhoo, on a morepleasant topic, yes, French composers have something like no others.
merveilleux , onirique comme une nuée d'images impressionnistes , merci à aldo ciccolini , à debussy le plus grand musicien français
The turn of the century harmonic progressions are the cradle of jazz
Debussy's sensitive talent was immense
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I'm currently orchestrating something by Germaine Tailleferre and I thought "hey what's that piece by Debussy again with the wonderful orchestration?". So I found this, it's what I was looking for. To my shock, it's just piano. I know there is an orchestral version, but I was genuinely thinking that this piano version was actually for full orchestra. What masterful writing to trick the memory like that!
Anyone remember the TV show, "Star Hustler"? Wasn't this Arabesque the opening notes to that astronomy show (suggestive)? Astronomer of the Miami planetarium, Jack Horkheimer was the host of the show, BTW. Videos of this 90s show can be found elsewhere on UA-cam.
+Sterling Bowen YES !
Yes I remember that. Good show.
This is really beautiful ❤
I feel like angels all playing on the harp in a blue paradise
this song seems to describe exactly how i feel in life right now. every time i play it, it never comes out how it should. i’m falling in love but in the wrong ways.
Thanks for posting this. Very useful. What a great piece. Debussy on top form here - hard to believe that this is over a hundred years ago, it is so fresh. I played this to my Wife last night and we both agreed that is the word to describe this ,"fresh".
My favorite piano song. Absolutely.
This is what it must feel like when you run through a field of flowers in a sundress. 🌸 I will always love this piece and if I ever get married I want this song to play as the first dance song 😳😳
Probably my favorite interpretation here on youtube. It's on the fast side but still very nuanced.
SOUNDS SO GOOD
Ludwig Van Beethoven hi Beethoven how is life? dead.
I thought you were deaf
Shehan Nanayakkara Hey you know what? Fuck you and all the people saying that I’m deaf I’VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT.
the first time I heard this piece, it was an Tomita electronic interpretation. This time I enjoy it a lot, and I happy to heard that the song played at the piano is also a rich and moving experience.
このくらいのテンポが好きです
This song reminds me of lying in a meadow almost falling asleep, Smelling the heat of the grass... and blinking, to see butterflies and bees around taking no notice...
played with the utmost taste, sophistication, and mastery by the great aldo ciccolini. it drips with fin-de-siecle charm
Magnificent Debussy. I love playing this even though my hands gets a mind of its own when playing the triplets.
I wish i still remembered how to play this. The most beautiful piece i have ever played... I'm proud of my 15 year old self.
I think a good 500k of those views are mine 😂
Vivacious Imagination C'mon, we've told you a million times not to exaggerate like that. ;-)
Foreal😏
The other half are mine!
I think the 3,944,128 views are mine 😏
Especially when im trying to play this song lol
Beautiful peace! It's grade 7 ppl. My brothers just started playing it, it's gonna take him a looonnnnggg time to play it!