How beautiful!Debussy’s Claire de Lune ….masterfully used in this ending scene from Ocean’s Eleven ….pure cinematic poetry ….
How beautiful!Debussy’s Claire de Lune ….masterfully used in this ending scene from Ocean’s Eleven ….pure cinematic poetry ….
The Verlaine poem that inspired it. This translation is by Richard Stokes.Listening to Debussy's Suite Bergamasque (Nikolai Lugansky)
Thanks to @moktan for your earlier post which led me to look up this album.
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The Verlaine poem that inspired it. This translation is by Richard Stokes.
Clair de lune
Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.
Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,
Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
Moonlight
Your soul is a chosen landscape
bewitched by masquers and bergamaskers,
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fanciful disguises.
Singing as they go in a minor key
of conquering love and life’s favours,
they do not seem to believe in their fortune
and their song mingles with the light of the moon,
The calm light of the moon, sad and fair,
that sets the birds dreaming in the trees
and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
tall and svelte amid marble statues.
Paul Verlaine, 1869
bergamaskers - folk dancers
"and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,The Verlaine poem that inspired it. This translation is by Richard Stokes.
Clair de lune
Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.
Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,
Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
Moonlight
Your soul is a chosen landscape
bewitched by masquers and bergamaskers,
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fanciful disguises.
Singing as they go in a minor key
of conquering love and life’s favours,
they do not seem to believe in their fortune
and their song mingles with the light of the moon,
The calm light of the moon, sad and fair,
that sets the birds dreaming in the trees
and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
tall and svelte amid marble statues.
Paul Verlaine, 1869
bergamaskers - folk dancers
That’s a powerful convergence of poetry and music and cinema isn’t it ? And of course all that would have been lost, like that proverbial tree falling in the forest , had you not had the faculty to notice and appreciate it."and the fountains sobbing in their rapture,
tall and svelte amid marble statues"
How beautiful portrayed in Ocean's Eleven!
That was both insightful and poetic @moktan. Look forward to more.That’s a powerful convergence of poetry and music and cinema isn’t it ? And of course all that would have been lost, like that proverbial tree falling in the forest , had you not had the faculty to notice and appreciate it.
And sharing all that took it to another level.
From now on , we will never see a fountain spouting again without remembering Ocean’s Eleven , Verlaine , Debussy and of course our interactions here.
I love the Famous wind of this land Mine to cherish The wind named Love-snatcher Chorus: My flower, my lei, mine to cherish My lei that I adore above all others You are my favorite and precious to me A lei forever for my body Beloved is this home This home so delightful to visitors Where I stayed many years With my love that was once snatched by the wind |
Difficult for anyone to surpass Glenn Gould IMHO. Haven't heard the 1955 version though.Goldberg Variations .. There are the two peerless versions by the Canadian genius Glenn Gould in 1955 and 1981 .. and then a huge catalogue from other great artists .. This one is Jeremy Den….
Besides Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain and Round About Midnight, Chopin’s Nocturnes and the Goldberg Variations completes my list of insomnia music …
Hannibal would agree…Difficult for anyone to surpass Glenn Gould IMHO. Haven't heard the 1955 version though.
Great watch for an insomnia nightHannibal would agree…
Here is another Jewel...Listening to this via the Primephonic recommendation
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Great watch for an insomnia night
Hi Two artists who have done incredible work in this repertoire are Rosalyn Tureck and Angela Hewitt…I think Gould was and still sounds incredibly great…but somehow the sound seems a little metallic for me. I have never warmed to anything else by Gould …he is great in Bach but somehow I don’t feel connected to the composer. Almost as if it is Mr Gould who is both composer and performer. Having said that , of the two Gould recordings being discussed, the 1955 one is more spontaneous IMHO. We were lucky to have got them in India on CD. Any thought on performances of the well tempered klavier, especially book1.Difficult for anyone to surpass Glenn Gould IMHO. Haven't heard the 1955 version though.
Yes indeed…but this is not new. I have been a subscriber for over two years now. And I can attest to its excellence especially of its archival content. The BPO, like the other top European and US orchestras can now make available to its subscribers repertoire and concerts which were not viable for record companies for commercial release. The BPO, in particular, have the best app and arguably some of the best content. Though of course, the great US orchestras are also getting into the game. Thank you for flagging this…my subscription has come up for renewal!The Berlin Philharmonic has gone digital.
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You should check out Kikujiro and some of the music Joe Hisaishi has composed for Studio Ghibli anime movies.I had never heard of Japanese composer-conductor Joe Hisaishi until two days ago. This is a piece for an animation movie, Kiki's Delivery Service. Stunning piece of music.
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Beethoven's Sixth Symphony (Pastoral) on JVC XRCD (Chicago Symphony orchestra,conducted by Fritz Reiner) is an excellent CD...great music, mastered and recorded to perfection.The warmth, smoothness and palpability is as good as it gets...almost like vinyl LP.
Buy it.Though costly, you will never repent.
Aniruddha.