Classical Winter: Relaxing Sounds & Instrumentals

Evening Piano - Satie: Gnossienne No. 7

Gnossienne No. 7

Letter(s) to Erik Satie

All Sides of the Small Stone, for Erik Satie

Evening Piano - Chopin: Prelude No. 6

24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 6 in B Minor

Places

Fernweh

Rays of Winter Sun - EP

A Child Is Born

Key Games

Paranormal Musicality

Dolphin

Syncline

Above the Chapel

Another Life

Brand New (Piano Version)

Morning Piano - Say: Winter Morning in Istanbul

Art of Piano, Op. 66: III. Winter Morning in Istanbul

Schubert: Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4, Ständchen (Transcr. for Harp)

Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4, Ständchen (Transcr. Lenaerts for Harp)

Korngold: Tanzlied des Pierrot

Die tote Stadt, Op. 12, Act 2: Tanzlied des Pierrot (Arr. Lenaerts for Harp)

Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse - Godowsky: Triakontameron: No. 11, Alt Wien

Triakontameron, Vol. 3: No. 11, Alt Wien

Renaissance

Nazareth (Renaissance Version)

Olafur Arnalds: saman

saman

The Windmills of Your Mind (From "The Thomas Crown Affair")

Memories of Me

Thème de l’absence (From "Joyeux Noël")

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.

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. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time.

Arabesque No. 1. Andantino con moto

This arabesque is in the key of E major. The piece begins with parallelism of triads in first inversion, a composition technique very much used by Debussy and other Impressionists which traces back to the tradition of fauxbourdon. It leads into a larger section which begins with a left hand arpeggio in E major and a descending right hand E major pentatonic progression.

The second quieter B section is in A major, starting with a gesture (E-D-E-C♯), briefly passing through E major, returning to A major and ending with a bold pronouncement of the E-D-E-C♯ gesture, but transposed to the key of C major and played forte.

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, and resolving back to E major.

Source:

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deux_arabesques

Debussy Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Claude-Debussy-Essential-Collection/dp/B00I6CEZQO/

Debussy Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0Mmayh49XRWTXp53uf3jtF

Best of Debussy iTunes
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/claude-debussy-the-essential-collection/819582576

Debussy Compilation
https://listen.tidal.com/album/26275698

Claude Debussy
https://www.deezer.com/us/album/7429526

Best of Debussy Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXtAfPp-70I&t=76s

Claude Debussy - The Essential Collection

Deux Arabesques, L.66: No.1 Andantino con moto

Apple Music

Federico Sanz (Violín) 
Cristián Cortés (Violín) 
Santiago Federici (Bandoneón) 
Martín Marino (Contrabajo)

Grabado en la ciudad de Rosario (Argentina) en septiembre de 2010.

8- Libertango (Astor Piazzolla)

Classical Winter: Relaxing Sounds & Instrumentals

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