Debussy-tante
by David
http://www.davidcflood.com/sitestuffnotimages/debussy-flaxenhair.mp3
This is my rendition of Debussy’s “La fille aux cheveux de lin” (“The Girl with the Flaxen Hair”), written around 1910 and perhaps the most famous of Debussy’s Préludes. From Wikipedia:
Debussy never intended the pieces [of the Préludes] to be performed in a series; he thought of them as individual works. The titles were given by the composer to create images or sensory associations for the listener. Several are poetically vague . . . The titles are written at the end of each movement, allowing the performer to discover impressions for himself, without being guided by Debussy’s own thoughts. This works less well now, as the Preludes have grounded themselves in popular culture.
The most famous of the preludes are both from the first book: La fille aux cheveux de lin is a brief but harmonically complex Pre-Raphaelite expression of beauty . . .
Other details: sheet music from The Sheet Music Archive, played on the Flood family’s Julius Bauer grand piano, recorded with Garageband, converted with iTunes, flash player by Odeo. Super good.