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thank you @mik

thank you @rontuner !

@Rontuner said:

(A bit off topic, but how did your town weather the recent storms and flooding?)

We got very lucky! We got some much needed rain (and we really needed it) but no flooding in town (as far as I know). But I saw some pretty bad photos of flooding in other places not so far away. And a few places had a lot of other kinds of storm damage as well.

This summer has been rough in a lot of places.

Thank you @jon-nyc

@jon-nyc said:

(I like how we can see your reflection in the pino desk)

That’s the best thing about a shiny black piano!

Hi WTFers! The Piano Tell August Recital is live, and I submitted a piece, please give a listen if you have a minute!

https://forum.pianotell.com/d/2497-pianotell-recital-9-is-now-live

My entry: https://forum.pianotell.com/d/2497-pianotell-recital-9-is-now-live/8

Or the direct link to my submission: September Song by Alexis Ffrench

(In other news, the Piano World ABF Aug Recital is plagued by technical difficulties and is delayed while they wait for the new site owners to respond...)

@AndyD I saw a version with fingering.. many in the Henle app? I was planning on buying it soon, so I’ll let you know.

I need to “finish” two pieces before I start this one. I’d love it if I could finish those two by the end of this month.

@AndyD thank you for this link! I absolutely love Broge’s playing, and it lovely to hear the gentle strings in the background.

Unfortunately , I can’t open the other video you posted.

@Bernard ooh, I like all of these and i think any would work well for your house!

Re red, yeah, you probably don't want to be another red house in a series of them!

@Mik that's lovely, and your landscaping is quite nice!

@bernard what about red? I love this look:

(this is in Iceland btw, a photo from the NYT)

@Steve-Miller oooh maybe that's it! If so, it's rather subtle, but I can see the connection.

How interesting!

@Steve-Miller I really like that yellow house with white trim!

@bernard I think that's maybe why I didn't like the yellow house pic you posted. It's not the color, but the fact that the trim and everything is the same color. Also I don't think that red door works with.

One issue for your house is matching the color to your lovely deck. I wonder if yellow wouldn't work with the deck, whereas green or blue might.

Hmm, this is hard!!

So, I every time I hear this piece, it makes me think of the Beatles, but I don't know why.

Could someone else listen and comment? Do you hear something Beatle-esque in it?

Hedgehog

@Bernard ooh thanks for posting those! I didn't really like the first one, but I really like the Pascal Roge's playing!

It's fun to listen all these different versions, esp. because usually that's not something I do (since I don't generally play classical pieces).

@AndyD RCM puts it at grade 10 (according to a quick and dirty internet search).

Yep, it won't be easy!

I am going to purchase it from the Henle app so I can reduce the number of staves on the page, but (again) an internet search says that it's about 72 measures. No super long, but the complexity is there...

@Bernard Ooh this is a hard question! I generally like green houses, but there's so much green around you... Maybe a blue?

I don't dislike the idea of yellow, but maybe not the one you showed?

@AndyD said:

Almost in tears watching the old man show how it ought to be played. I am going to have to learn it.

this was basically my response! I have known this piece since forever, and sort of generally liked it.

But hearing Victor Borge's version, I immediately wanted to learn it and play it myself. (My teacher tells me it's within my level, so I may start working on it when the fall semetser starts...)

@bernard you may be right about the "orchestral" style.

So, do you have a favorite version of CdL?

@Bernard said:

played like a pop song

Oooh, that's interesting! Maybe that's part of why it falls flat for me... I wouldn't have thought to describe it that way, but once you said it, it rings true.

There's nothing wrong with pop music, to be sure (and there's a lot of pop music that I like). But Debussy is not pop music, so that approach doesn't work here. IMO.

I have actually always thought that I Giorni, by the post-classical pianist Ludovico Einaudi, has very strong "pop music sensibilities" ... so to play this piece like a pop song would be fine. IMO of course.

back to Clair de Lune... Listening to it, I also wondered if Borge's style of playing is not currently "in vogue" in the classical piano world, but I don't know because I don't really know what's "in vogue" (like, I don't know, how would Lang Lang or Yuja Wang play CdL?)

@Mik Ooh I googled, that's a very pretty color!

I also like a good cherry red car too. A friend of mine has a 1966 red Corvair, it's so awesome!

On the topic of red, Elton John's red Yamaha is pretty cool too!

Burger

P.S. join me in this thread for an extension of this discussion to piano music: https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3960/two-different-versions-of-clair-de-lune