Name: Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte by JRhodesPianist
Duration: 7 min 53 s
Description: Ravel's stupidly beautiful Pavane for a Dead Princess. He wrote it in 1899, this is my interpretation of it 115 years later.

Fragile and beautiful - touches your soul.....

Part of this melody makes its way to The Lamp is Low and then finally to Nujabes Aruarian Dance! Ravel is a genius!

This seldom heard work by Claude Debussy is from my new CD album:
 'Debussy-Nature Myth Legend'

YouTube link:
http://youtu.be/fX1fqb3bJLA


Debussy-Nature Myth Legend

Nocturne, L. 82

'Nocturne' by Claude Debussy

Ravel's stupidly beautiful Pavane for a Dead Princess. He wrote it in 1899, this is my interpretation of it 115 years later.

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Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

C. Debussy - Suite Bergamasque - IV. Passepied

Brodmann PE-187 grand piano. AKG microphones. Pro Tools recording. 

Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

Debussy's sublime summer prelude, 'La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin'.

The indicated 'Très calm et doucement expresiff' (Very calm and gentle in expressiveness) is quietly asserting tranquility. This is a piece to be savoured and experienced like a summer's gentle breeze; incentivised by the source for the prelude - the poem that bears the identical title of the prelude, written by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle in the mid-19th century (published in 1874). It is said that Debussy found the inspiration for the prelude within the poem, but for me, the prelude is almost a musical transcription of the poem. I include both the English translation (Laura L. Nagle, 2007) of Lisle's poem, and the original French version as well, below. Read the poem whilst listening to the recording and you will find more than a serendipitous likeness!  
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The girl with the flaxen hair

Who sits upon the blooming lucerne,  
Singing from the earliest morn?  
It is the girl with the flaxen hair,  
The beauty with cherry-red lips.

Love, in the bright summer sun,  
Sang with the lark.

Your mouth has divine colours,
 My dear, and is tempting to kiss!
  Do you wish to chat upon the blooming grasses,  
Girl with long lashes and delicate curls?

Love, in the bright summer sun,  
Sang with the lark.

Do not say no, cruel girl!
  Do not say yes! I shall better understand  
A long gaze from your large eyes  
And your pink lips, o my beauty!

Love, in the bright summer sun,  
Sang with the lark.

Farewell to the deer, farewell to the hares  
And the red partridges!  I wish 
To kiss the flax of your hair,  
To press upon the crimson of your lips!

Love, in the bright summer sun,  
Sang with the lark.
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La fille aux cheveux de lin

Sur la luzerne en fleur assise,  
Qui chante dès le frais matin?
  C'est la fille aux cheveux de lin,
  La belle aux lèvres de cerise.

L'amour, au clair soleil d'été,  
Avec l'alouette a chanté.

Ta bouche a des couleurs divines,  
Ma chère, et tente le baiser!  
Sur l'herbe en fleur veux-tu causer,  
Fille aux cils longs, aux boucles fines?

L'amour, au clair soleil d'été,  
Avec l'alouette a chanté.

Ne dis pas non, fille cruelle!  
Ne dis pas oui! J'entendrai mieux
  Le long regard de tes grands yeux
  Et ta lèvre rose, ô ma belle!

L'amour, au clair soleil d'été,
  Avec l'alouette a chanté.

Adieu les daims, adieu les lièvres  
Et les rouges perdrix! Je veux
  Baiser le lin de tes cheveux,  
Presser la pourpre de tes lèvres!

L'amour, au clair soleil d'été,
  Avec l'alouette a chanté.
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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "La fille aux cheveux de lin", from Poèmes antiques, in 'Chansons écossaises'
illustration: Monet - Monet - 'Woman with a Parasol, facing right', 1886, Musée D'Orsay, Paris

Claude Debussy - Prelude in G flat major - no. 8 from Book 1: 'La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin'

Brodmann PE-187 grand piano, AKG 220 mics, Pro Tools recording.

Brahms - Intermezzo Op118no2

Beethoven: Piano Sonata "Pathetique" Mvt. 2 Adagio

Nacht Op.8 - No.3

Nacht Op.8 - No.3 - Erkki Gustaf Melartin

Emile Pandolfi  Once Upon A December

Made this recording June 5th, 2012. Enjoy this beautiful romantic character piece by Chopin. 

Ravel Pavane Pour Une Infante Défunte

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