Abel Decaux - Clairs de Lune

[@mrtchaikovsky]

I've just read that Ravel considered orchestrating this work at some point. Can you even imagine what that would have sounded like?

[@Medtnaculuss]

One of my favourite works ever.

[@Medtnaculuss]

Shocked that this isn't one of your most viewed videos. Can't stop coming back!

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Medtnaculus Haha well, I guess it's just that people are unfamiliar with his name, and they need to happen on this video, a chance encounter, when they're looking through my uploads.

[@valerieheinderyckx4506]

Quelle etrange et géniale inspiration... c'est magnifique. ❤

[@charlesmchugh8811]

Some of this requires an almost zen-like patience. But it is truly amazing to see that he wrote these around 1903. I'm afraid that he'll never have a large audience (I'm sure he didn't care).

[@essencejoyclairv]

I love that this music doesn't sound like anything else I've heard and actually is experienced as alive and present time. There are many moments here where I noticed an inner dialogue with the composer and the pianist. Where the music seemed to develop a recognisable pattern, my inner ear started to 'anticipate' a certain tone or a melody only to be shown something different by the composer. These dialogues gave me a lot of amusement. Amusement = to be filled with the Muses Music = the sounds created by the Muses

[@lovaaaa2451]

Best musical surprise of the year for me

[@jeffreybryan8377]

Wow!!! this guy was way ahead of his time. May I say this music is of a contemporary nature even today. Absolutely fabulous!!!💗💓🎶😅

[@alexanderhowardchairartand5039]

I love the mystical ebb and flow of this piece of music.

[@LukeFaulkner]

No. 4 (16:16) is sublime. Reminds me of Messiaen's "Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu"

[@stacia6678]

This has a very modernist feel to it imo

[@stacia6678]

These pieces seem mystical, like an aural depiction of the stuff we don't see at night.

[@deodatdechampignac]

this is a chef-d'œuvre

[@klop4228]

This is gorgeous. Completely taken aback by it, almost want to take up piano again just to learn it lol.

[@reetrol]

12:40 damnnn this reminds me so much of the Rautavaara's 3rd piano concerto ( the 2nd mvt )

[@stacia6678]

It uses the same tonic as well

[@stacia6678]

from around 11:50, these phrases are used in Rautavaara's piano concerto 1, 2nd mvt

[@Casio61]

I've never heard of this man before. Extraordinary music. 1903? Mind>blown.

[@mickyj300x]

i love how Dies Irae is used in the 3rd mvt - it's so beautiful

[@ALRatmosphericmusic]

An exceptional atonal work ... the musical construction is pure genius !

[@leocadieux6781]

16:00-16:10 This ending... so haunting...

[@osmarantoniosagrado2377]

Estou descobrindo este canal há pouco tempo, mais mesmo assim, a já posso dizer sem medo de errar, que MARAVILHA de canal .... meus parabéns a todos

[@callum641]

I think it is so sad that there is no more music known by this composer, I find especially the third and fourth movement quite enthralling, and unlike anything else I have ever heard.

[@leonardobautista1619]

Left me simply speechless. I wish he had written something for orchestra.

[@misc.inc.8999]

A translation made by a friend: Piano, piano, pianissilo... White, the moon slips sliently in space... Chimneys, attics, gables, [roof]tops, tenebrous silhouettes on a dark azure field... Unmoving ghosts... Metallic corpse of a meowing cat... Grinning profile of a monstrous gothic gargoyle... Hesitating bat flight... Pasty carty to the sky... Bizarre dreams and nightmares... Nocturnal dreads... Piano, piano, pianissimo...

[@philiprostek]

A wonderful post! Both Beautiful and educational... Thank you.

[@vincentvanbuuren]

Wow! What a revelation and how original. Clearly a contemporary of Charles Tournemire. Anyone who does not know the piano music of Tournemire, look him up on KZbin as well!

[@angelodeoliveira9773]

So many highlights, flourishing impressionist in Belle Époque. In meantime, it's gloriously realistic, almost seeing what would lie ahead with the post-modern concrete music, I guess.

[@themoonfleesthroughclouds]

God, this is transfixing… incredible

[@samuel723]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!

[@TempodiPiano]

Passionnant.

[@ziegunerweiser]

Upon reading the title, my immediate thought was hey wait a minute I thought Debussy wrote that - as I come from a violin background I recognized the title immediately as it was transcribed for violin and recorded by Kreisler, Oistrakh, Heifetz, and many others. So I looked it up and it means light of the moon and is part three of Debussy's suite bergamasque written between 1890 and 1905 and was likely inspired by a poem by Paul Verlaine with the same title written in 1869. To my surprise Faure had written something with the same title also. The poem is quite beautiful if you Google it. Although the Debussy is worlds different than this, atonal impressionistic is an interesting description although it seems from what I can tell Decaux and Debussy were contemporaries while Faure's op46 no 2 composition of the same title was written in 1887. All of this only makes me more curious about Mr Decaux, his life, influences, and his other works. If I am correct to assume, the atonal / avant garde aspect of his sound does predate the efforts of Schoenberg, Scriabin, and Stravinsky?

[@olla-vogala4090]

+scottbos68 Yes indeed, he does predate the efforts of those you mention. But he is such a curious composer, like I wrote there are only a handful of compositions available from him, and this is (I think) the only recorded composition by him. One composition is not much to determine a composer's place in history... Also, the set is called 'Clairs' instead of 'Clair', so plural instead of singular.

[@equator2007]

+scottbos68 Verlaine's poem Clair de lune and Fauré's and Debussy's settings of it are in quite another psychological universe. Decaux's shifting moonlights take us to a very different, eerier place than Verlaine's dreaming birds and sobbing fountains.

[@jdoggtn7]

To be fair, some of Charles Ives's experiments with atonality and polytonality also precede Schoenberg, Milhaud and Stravinsky.

[@soundfinder_Lee]

Congratulations on your 1000th subscribers!

[@olla-vogala4090]

+이한 Lee Han Thanks! :)

[@thescarsun]

La Mer = Ondine 2.0 Great!

[@kuang-licheng402]

nice

[@SCRIABINIST]

People always say Clair de lune, but they never ask whether there is another Clair de Lune

[@Latinosmassacre-]

Hey! scororabin! ist!

[@Latinosmassacre-]

Hey! agreed! Mr Scororabin!

[@Rilberich]

They do. Beethoven and Debussy's.

[@stacia6678]

19:49

[@dennischiapello7243]

I can't find it on iTunes.

[@johnstag1391]

Exquis

[@jaegonekim]

Beauty

[@sebastientraglia1351]

I hear a lot of late Liszt

[@gilesgoldsmith]

L~O~V~E!

[@yigitvural1150]

Wow this is my style! Does anyone know pieces like this or composers in this style?

[@olla-vogala4090]

+Yiğit Vural Maybe some Takemitsu, Schönberg's early atonal piano pieces, later Scriabin piano music.

[@mateushayasaka]

Maybe "a prole do bebe 2" de H.Villa-lobos!

[@rag2458]

scriabin's 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th sonatas (9th is my favourite, but all of them are stellar)

[@Yhiith]

@Miglior Fabbro Ma che c'entrano i Paisajes? Forse come poetica alla lontana, ma di certo non per linguaggio...

[@stacia6678]

@@rag2458 don't forget vers la flamme! :)

[@LavaMLG]

12:30 - 14:05

[@vitorpetri1376]

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