Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1 ( one hour )

[@jamesfreud1]

My girlfriend gets mad at me because i tell her all the time how much i love Debussy.

[@keithrichards1294]

Perhaps she's getting jealous... I'd keep it quiet if I were you..

[@arianaise439]

She should save her anger for something more substantial and sit down with you, the music and a glass of wine and try to appreciate the beauty in something you love instead acting like a juvenile.

[@jamesfreud1]

@@arianaise439 try not to take things so seriously all the time ok. I think you'll find yourself a much happier person. 😉

[@arianaise439]

I'm a very happy person but thanks for the advice, and if you don't want people commenting on your thoughts don't air them on a public forum.

[@Toxygenify]

@@arianaise439 Visiblement, tu t'es perdue ici. Tu devrais vite retourner sur Twitter passer ta journée à cracher sur les méchants fascistes, tu n'en trouveras pas sur une musique de Debussy :) Allez a+

[@ewat4753]

I’ll never forget once while dining at The Dillard House, in Dillard, Georgia, the piano player came to the tables to ask for a request. I looked over his menu of tunes and saw only top 40 hits of days past: Barry Manilow, The Bee Gees et al. I snidely asked if he knew DuBussy Arabesque. He glanced at me w furrowed brow and remarked, “ That’s rich!” He went to his seat and began to play in a dining room full of talking guests and loud children enjoying the scenery. After about 2 or 3 chords the whole room fell silent. Suddenly, children stopped everything, looked at the parents, pushed away from their meals and went to stand beside the piano player. I glanced around the previously boisterous room to see many, all of the diners, looking around, intent in a memory, seemingly remembering a fonder time in their lives. Many couples embraced hands. Teenagers who were engrossed in their phones looked up and listened. Others, like me, moved to tears. It was spectacular!

[@antoniussnellaert5259]

"that's rich"

[@007lq7]

What a beautiful and touched scene!

[@christophekotanyi4004]

The Greek had two words for this, the epoche, the moment which frees you from your habits, and kairos, the moment which cannot be grasped. Thank you for sharing.

[@znraymond]

A moving story

[@renfredclowes4297]

Play it again, Sam!

[@yonatantacza9746]

It is crazy to think that people waited years and spent small fortunes on listening to certain pieces of classical music maybe two or three times in their entire lives, and that the lower classes probably never heard any at all. And yet here we are, able to listen to the entire repository of human composition with a few flicks of the finger whenever we please.

[@bobobahia]

The same thought occurred to me recently. Eloquently put, thank you.

[@troygaspard6732]

The only way to hear music at that time was to hear a live performance, and it remains my favorite way to hear any music.

[@soderome]

LoVe your point of view.

[@bojuanhorseman3482]

totalmente de acuerdo.

[@brandylou9132]

A very underappreciated blessing, indeed.

[@marcogarcia6782]

I discovered Arabesque no.1 last year, and since then I have entered a universe from which I don't want to leave.

[@dooshmasta]

Wait til you hear Isao Tomita’s electronic recordings of Debussy

[@skronked]

Me too. 😢🤔😂😉

[@charlesliles2966]

I am currently TRYING to expose my two grand children to this music.

[@user-nv1xk5zm9i]

Beautiful words;)

[@yeef3493]

You don’t have to, friend. Welcome home!

[@morganatrevelyan7377]

It must be wonderful to create such a beautiful legacy for the world. Here we are, 130 years later, still appreciating this jewel.

[@dabaska787]

hey nobody's is stopping you ???

[@paullillebo3969]

When I was a teenager in Chicago in the 1950s, there was a late-night radio host who played the classics. Jay Andres, of WGN I believe. His theme music that announced the show each evening was the first section of Debussy's Arabesque No.1. I stayed up just to listen to his theme. I didn't know what it was at the time, only that it was enchanting. It was many years later that I identified the piece. Now I play it myself, and it will always be one of my favorites.

[@pmacc3557]

Love your story and can relate

[@user-bu3vt5bz8s]

lovely ❤

[@sandraborbollaescobar9821]

This music is like a magic carpet. You can fly in your mind, in your soul, and see how beautiful is life when you feel your heart in armony and peace.

[@scotnick59]

YES

[@cartonsnder7368]

@@scotnick59 You are right

[@jeanclaudevierin9176]

THIS IS THE MAGIC OF DEBUSSY. REVERIES

[@yolandagmaganahernandez6977]

I agree 🌤️

[@MarianMurphy-rz8ej]

Magic is an abomination - this is from Above. This is ethereal and beautiful and from the Creator The Most High.

[@denniskefalas6823]

When I hear Debussy, I walk through the garden of heaven!

[@darrylschultz6479]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply turn the stereo off whenever he comes on?

[@pgifford]

This brings back happy memories from my childhood, 60 years ago. My father played it, his students did. Then I took it for granted. Now it brings me to tears.

[@zoraidarod]

But isn't it wonderful that you have such wonderful memories?

[@brughta]

@@emilyw842 Emily I relate to that feeling. For me, it's Debussy, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann Schubert etc. My eldest brother is a very talented pianist and when I was a child I used to lie awake at weekends until he came home, sat down at the piano, and played them all for approximately 2 hours. I loved it, so tranquilizing, and yes nowadays it almost brings me to tears. Also when I listen to Debussy as I am right now with my Airpods, I can only picture my brother sitting at the piano playing. I can happily say that I know every note and chord in every one of these most beautiful and relaxing pieces. Just wish young people were exposed more to classical music. I believe it would make a huge difference to our present very aggressive society.

[@justinsaw3d]

im 24 and love classical but i keep it a secret @@brughta

[@SofieCTroll]

One of, if not THE BEST, piece Debussy ever wrote!

[@ZKLofiTone]

hmmm maybe Clair de Lune is better...

[@wyup]

My favourite is String Quartet in G minor. Suite Bergamasque for piano goes hand in hand.

[@user-bu3vt5bz8s]

@@ZKLofiTone i think this is better

[@miguelcamposfernandez4388]

When I was a little child, i heard this wonderful piece, it was in a school universe documentary, i just heard it once, but i never forget the beauty of this music, Sadly i didn't know the name of the artist or the song, so i never heard this again during decades... But one day, y was resting on the sofa, hearing some piano in youtube, i get sleep and the piano sesion ended, and after that magic happens and youtube put me this piece, the music penetrate my dream and i awake... Since that day i head this piece while i try to get sleep my baby.... We love it

[@lorenzoparedes2306]

Your comment is one of a myriad of reasons why children should be introduced to a basic familiarity of classical music. I have never taken a formal course on music appreciation, but because I do love music, I taught myself classical composer names, forms, major composers, etc. This with the help of what used to be two local classical music stations, now only one. Whenever I hear a piece I enjoy, I listen for the announcer's information as to composer, title, and sometimes even the performer, because that also makes a difference. Anyway, the point is, music (not exclusively classical, though some snobs would tell you so) helps to express feelings, and even make very special memories.

[@MrShogun25]

Im 65 and im just hearing this music by Debussy for the first time WOW!!! its never to late......

[@nasirferguson4098]

65 years before you heard this? wow im surprised, its very popular. I think his 2nd most popular piece

[@rebtolentino4343]

Forget COVID , I felt the summer soft breeze like ANGELS touching and healing my whole being , DEBUSSY is HEAVEN sent !

[@googleuser5343]

Debussy has been the sound my baby listens to before sleeping for a long while. Pure genius, merci Claude!

[@918900able]

Ahhh, Debussy! How I so love your compositions. Everytime I hear your music, my imagination brings me to another time and space. Music truly is the language of the soul.

[@kaymuldoon3575]

I always picture myself sitting in Monet’s garden, getting lost in the ripples of the ponds with their lily pads floating atop...

[@saved_yet_so_as_by_fire]

Such beautiful music, thank you God for giving us such a man as Debussy.

[@MarianMurphy-rz8ej]

Such a delicate, refined and ethereal piece of music ❤ I think it must have something of Heaven about it. It’s so beautiful.

[@adamcat7]

I like writing to this with rain and a quiet moment to myself.

[@carimeagiazzi6640]

Oh is wonderfull⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘I love this music

[@wendygayossodelavega8353]

I lisent when I reviewed homeworks and test of my students

[@selfote44]

Me too!

[@kayleebegay3933]

This piece always makes me want to cry for no reason its so beautiful.

[@kristian.kalmanlehto]

The escalating and forward looking motion with incredible harmonies have always made me happy with Debussy´s music.

[@totoro3007]

This song makes me happy that there are still people in the world that are willing to spend years and years of piano classes to play this song.

[@margalidafigueroahernandez3975]

Cuanta dulzura, cuanta suavidad, cuanta belleza, cuanta armonía. Me enamora esta música de Debussy.

[@Coffeeman81]

I have heard hundreds of versions of this and I must say this is the best one. Near perfect, but the best.

[@eugenenciu902]

Plecaciune Maestre, mi-ai furat Lacrimi...lacrimi pline de iubire, PLECACIUNE!

[@felavelasco4026]

La más bella de las melodías. The most beautiful melody.

[@felipedej.cervera6514]

For many years, I got this version in my mind, thinking this is the right way to play it. Heard so many pianists! Zoltán Kocsis was the option for so long but no: this is finally the best version ever. I take note: Aldo Ciccolini, reviving Debussy a 100 %. Thank you for posting.

[@shawnmegorden]

I love Debussy! It's so beautiful it makes me cry.

[@marcoshenriquegabrie]

This piece really weaves curlicues around my face, shielding me from this awful reality.

[@deserthillbilly64]

Just picking up the piano again and taking lessons, and found this gentleman among the Classical Masters, and wow, goosebumps, I really dig this guy he is one of my new favorite artists, and Chopin of course.

[@tatodulanci]

Escuchar esto es como una droga de lo más adictiva.

[@raymatthews7624]

He seems to float on air as his music soothes and whisper at the same time. Thanks Magda.

[@johnsonheatup4323]

That's the beauty of his style of music, debussy said fek Beethoven style that has an expected route and says a story, and decided to take a music that is more fluent, it is very genius actually, you can watch Sideways on it, he has bunch of music videos

[@johnsonheatup4323]

In other words this is Impressionism I believe, he has Hallaton notes that don't get resolved, hence it give you that floaty feeling cus the music just keeps going on and you think it is about to finish but no it just restarts and goes on. Unlike Beethoven or Mozart who all resolve their notes it is called Romantic or something

[@yigitliselotte5626]

Was Claude Debussy uns mit diesem wunderbaren Musikstück schenkt ,ist ein musikalischer Traum sondergleichen. Schließe die Augen und sehe bei jedem Ton, wie Perlen nacheinander von der Perlenschnur gleiten.Sie fallen auf Samt und der Rosenduft verströmt zugleich einen atemberaubenden Duft.Du willst die Perlen aufheben,doch die nächsten Perlen werden verstreut und die nächsten...es nimmt kein Ende.......Danke Claude Debussy für die wunderschöne Kompostion!

[@nestabus]

I wish Kaitlyn had heard this with me before she left 😔 Suppose she already knows what heaven sounds like. 💕

[@serenabreeze2246]

No worries, I am sure that claude debussy plays it in heaven for many who never heard it.

[@rms2578]

Perfect in so many ways! I love listening again and again to this piece

[@jean-louispirottin4144]

Au moment d'aller dormir, tu trouves la sérénité et l'apaisement. Puis le sommeil 😌 vient . . . merci Claude Debussy !

[@RolandHuettmann]

This is an enjoyable interpretation. Thank you very much. My teacher made me play the piece until I knew it by heart and found the right touch. Yes, the impressionists painting style shines through. Actually, I love this piece even more than Clair du Lune, Arabesque 2, and others. It is so gentle, atmospheric, and in some parts it even anticipates some Jazz-like harmonies. Something to dream...

[@nunu4evaaa]

his music is a gift. its as if they are the tears of angels.

Claude Debussy's music is wonderful! Inspiring and calming at the same time

[@eritsia]

This piece has always been so beautiful to me, every time I hear it, I feel like I've found true bliss :)

[@Shazbut-he3ne]

I was 16 when I listened to this for the first time and I remember that when I heard the figure at 1:25, I thought "This guy understands me"

[@headass8359]

I was about the same age when I heard this song my first time. My favorite piano song since.

[@Stephanie_rivera_diaz_]

Escucho esos bellos acordes y siento como brota mi esencia... La bondad la sencillez el amor la piedad...ayudta ayudr sin parar.... Gracias segunda vez que la escucho en mi vida.... 😊😊

[@GENDEMA]

This man exalt the life in so many forms.

[@evelynvaliente]

I put this song when i go to sleep and i get happier each morning i just love it

[@zdevol7]

Hudba mi dává sílu žít ! díky bohu ji ještě slyším. tuto skladbu Debussyho jsem hrávala v době, kdy jsem si myslela, že budu klavíristkou, ale osud chtěl jinak -a tak alespoń díky technice si ji mohu stále dopřávat ! Díky !

[@robertcohn8858]

What a relaxing, beautiful performance by Rik. A definite way to lower your blood pressure and chill...

[@jeansalgueran8447]

It is the first time that I hear this melody of this great artist, and I felt a peace a relief to all my worries even I get tears. what a beautiful legacy he left us . Greetings from Lima, Peru

[@MegaCirse]

This music unfolds like a picture book full of stars, where birds come chirping, spinning farandoles, cracking rattles and dancing wizards. From rounds to nursery rhymes, the arrangements display their mystery and the instruments have the roundness and brilliance of chimes 🌺

[@franciscoagonzalezcapote8570]

Fantastic,and amazing music

[@khyung8]

You just cry and your soul is healed ...

[@jenforevv]

Indeed.

[@susanfraser1920]

Debussy is the master of loving music

[@chicoblessed9201]

💯

[@billyvillyx748]

Escucho la Pieza infinidad de veces y cada vez me inspira algo diferente, pero relacionado con una misma situacion., imagino campos bajo la Lluvia., pero tambien ilusiones que llegan y jamas se realizan, tiene Magia y Melancolia sublimadas, como sueños de los que jamas quisieras despertar., Musica Bellisima. Grande Debussy!!!

[@arelyperez770]

billy villyx que bonita! maginación

[@clarenceboddiker6536]

I am in awe of the brilliance of Debussy and the beauty of Arabesque No1.

[@RolandHuettmann]

I just heard the recording of Claude Debussy himself. I like your interpretation better, it is touching and subtle. He sounds a bit rough playing his own piece. But he was an exceptional composer. I wonder how such atmospheric music came into his mind. So, we owe him gratitude, and to you for performing. No one performance is the same, it is the beauty of human touch. Thank you.

[@mariaelsasosa3166]

Caricias para los sentidos.

[@ianbean6581]

Lovro Rukljic this is because the producers of music probably sped it up in order to reduce the crackling sound of the tape.

[@atallguynh]

@@ianbean6581 Debussy's recordings are from piano rolls as there was no tape at that time. The recordings we hear are from playing the piano rolls on a player piano. They are timed as he intended as far as I understand it.

[@MrRonantho]

No he never record this piece it's been debunked..it was just random artist called Suzanne Godenne who played it

[@RolandHuettmann]

@@MrRonantho Good to hear. Is there any reference?

[@raquelsanchez9668]

Ha sido escucharlo y llevarme a los recuerdos de mi infancia donde en la tele echaban Planeta Imaginario con esta musica.

[@roccosophie6498]

When genius, meets the world. This kind of music will always rule the world. The civilized, world.

[@randyfechter3964]

A sensitive performance highlights the airy beauty of this composition.

[@emelless5365]

This music is the shimmering droplets of rain in a spiders web, turned to diamonds by the sunlight.It is the graceful dip and turn of a flock of small birds flying over a meadow....It is autumn leaves swirling as they fall,lifted in a light breeze. It is a weeping willow swaying in the wind, it is a million stars shining in a dark moonless sky.

[@perigoldcreation2323]

Breathtaking visual

[@pmacc3557]

Wow! I love weeping willows

[@frankx8739]

Belle Epoch! Like a beautiful dream we will never have again.

[@phyllishinton9377]

BRAVO ALDO!!! SUCH BEAUTIFUL CASCADING NOTES, LIKE WATERFALLS!!!!! Thank You!

[@susanfraser1920]

my soul fights off the devils when deussy opens the gates of life with his beautifull music

[@elizabethstetler8044]

Great music to listen while embroidering, helps me to focus-- thank you

[@lawrenceevangelista8276]

This piece is like a wave, literally. You'll know when you play it

[@dorothyrobinson6353]

Thank you for sharing! I love and appreciate his great talent.

[@TheMora695]

Ces chansons seront Toujours relaxants.❤🤍💙

[@kathleenrevill9154]

I think Debussy had a beautiful soul.

[@TonyAvaloschickenwing]

I know one thing that's true, he makes my soul rejoice, and helps me the pain of being alive.

[@chrisg780]

cound't agree more

[@phillipanderson7858]

if there really is such a thing as a soul, then he still has it.

[@MrLiedich]

Sure, He has... And anybody who loves has a beautiful soul too.

[@frankblangeard8865]

Yes, aside from divorcing his wife who then tried to commit suicide and marrying the woman he was having an affair with after she obtained a divorce from her husband he had a beautiful soul.

[@joaoalfredocoelhoribeiro5426]

Peace..., deep peace. This is Debussy's Arabesque No. 1. The direct link with the cosmic universal energy.

[@ShiroHimex]

And I'm Jack Horkheimer~

[@AntonioPuenteBadia]

Muy agradecido por esa excelente idea, y su realización. Cuan grato escucharla una y otra vez, siempre. Gracias Magda.

[@justanotherbohemian3827]

I feel like I'm in an American bar in Paris listening to Debussy as he plays the piano. My table is next to the window and I have a wonderful view of the Seine, the street lamps, the moon and the tall, thin-leaved trees, the deep blue sky. I have this feeling of warmth and satisfaction that the summer evenings bring with them...

[@justanotherbohemian3827]

@Shards of Shattered Halos Lacerate My Skin Thank you :)

[@carmenisabeltane7405]

Minunat! Multumesc!

[@flossie5432]

This is sitting by a little stream in the afternoon sun,with the sunbeams glinting off the surface and hypnotizing you into a warm,calm place.

[@annalisa7933]

Sweet sensations so beautifully played.... seems to me as if fingers were dancing on a piano....

[@aliciasmith6638]

Lovely,thank you Claude...

[@niveasynthiasantos874]

É uma viagem esses concertos Amo

[@jerrydillon9191]

Ever time I here this I want to look up to the stars

[@darrylschultz6479]

Well make sure not to play it during the day or you could go blind!

[@sonyamcquarter7702]

"Always remember to keep looking up!"

[@mamabook7364]

Красивая музыка. работать под такую музыку одно удовольствие! ♥

[@chrisg780]

Dubussy my second best composer wonderful music in line with my favorite Chopin uite

[@arlenlam1637]

Me too

[@MrVenganza666]

who is first?

[@brendanbroadhead5087]

@@MrVenganza666 chopan!!!! and debussey the best understudy

[@Rosie-zs3gy]

@chris g I'm from Poland. We really love Chopin because he was born here in Poland. Glad you like him:))

[@marv9296]

Debussy is my number one composer. His music makes me think of sunny summer days, happy childhood moments, spring, sunny morning walks, birds singing, summer rain, moonlight and stars, of some better and happier times...

[@georgiospanteras5272]

Одна из любимых композиций Дебюсси. Её можно слушать очень -очень долго, и душа не устаёт -:)

[@nietff8326]

fumando um cigarro, tomando um café ouvindo Debussy, thanks Odobescu, this moment for me i can say this is happiness

[@jesuslara6966]

perra pero con pedigri

[@iakovosarvanitis8812]

Analisando. vous avez oublier l’amour....avant le reste en écoutant les arabesques

[@ANTICHITASCIPPA]

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[@joaobatistaoliveirasilva98]

Um vinho... Em vez do cigarro. Nada contra aqueles que fazem uso dele... Apenas uma preferência personal...

[@frereanaktom99]

give up smoking. my mother had a horrible death. even debussy could not relieve the suffering

[@mariaisabeltorresurra6788]

Muchas gracias por compartir esta belleza. Me encanta Debussy.

[@eliash.6142]

This puts me in such a content and accepting mindstate, above the usual perspective on life in enjoyment. What a beautiful piece, almost unbelievable and unreal.

[@user-rp5wr1rs3n]

Чудесная музыка! Слушала целый вечер, покой и умиротворение!

[@claumonas]

Qué belleza....Gracias por subirlo.

[@RanBlakePiano]

Incredible performance .thanks for this wonderful post

[@DrKBo2]

Nice interpretation and playing with an engaging tempo. The Arabesques are hauntingly beautiful. Debussy was a whippersnapper--a witty critic and, of course, a musical genius.

[@arelyperez770]

Hermosa!! Nota Musical saludos desde Mexico ;)

[@mengjialyu6238]

Pure beauty

[@ec1628]

Star Hustler!! Greetings! Greetings! Remember to keep looking up! Thanks for all of the knowledge you shared with us Jack Horkheimer.

[@sonyamcquarter7702]

😢😢😢

[@reneematte8426]

Merci Magda Odobescu pour ce bel ajout musical phénoménal titré Arabesque No.1💖♪♫ 🎹🌺🎼Dommage que ledit morceau soit joué en répétition...

[@MayasDream]

This is exquisite. Thank you.

[@noemiegolubovic277]

ok

[@rivkaraz]

I can hear the master talking to me with his music. Telling me his story.❤️

[@Hella_based_David]

you must be a mystic?

[@storageaccountiii8917]

I logged in to type those down: Are you on drugs you elegant lady?

[@chicoblessed9201]

Remarkable. 🙏

[@coletteribet4358]

Magnifique j'adore. Çà me donne des frissons, j'ai l'impression de m'envoler ds le ciel..... cette musique me transporte !!! Merci

[@nunu4evaaa]

thank you Magda & thank you Debussy we love you ! & appreciate this. 🙏🏽🤍🕊♾🤩👼🏽

[@inimacam3945]

Calm and peaceul . thank you.

[@andie_exe]

I've loved this song for so long and now I hear that Taehyung likes it, i'm so happy 😭😭💜💜💜

[@ZanaMe]

Lucky

[@vicene6507]

Adoro esta pieza y gracias a ti he descubierto al magnífico pianista Aldo Ciccolini. Una interpretación sublime. Gracias por el descubrimiento.

[@smoovegittar]

One of my very fav composers. Thanks for posting!

[@grisscanales2110]

En este preciso momento que escucho esta hermosas melodías. Me encuentro enferma. Pero escuchar a Debusy me hace tanto bien! Medicina para mi cuerpo! Gracias!! 💙🎶🎹

[@antoniolane9620]

uma prece para tua cura do Brasil para ti...

[@grisscanales2110]

@@antoniolane9620 Gracias! 😊

[@brenolacourt765]

Te deseo mejoras

[@grisscanales2110]

@@brenolacourt765 gracias! Ya estoy mejor!! 👌🏼😊

[@irenefleury3842]

...e , especialmente , para sua alma!

[@mrmcd6787]

Sublime, thank you Magda for sharing this......

[@arlenlam1637]

Superb music thank you Magna too

[@jillleson1697]

So magnificent. Puts me in such a pleasant state of mind!

[@christinemartin63]

Too, too lovely .... bravo, Magda. Sinteti foarte talentata 😉 ... si Debussy a fost un geniu 🌝