Debussy - “Clair de lune“ for violin & piano (Ray Chen & Julio Elizalde)

Download the Tonic App to practice your instrument with a community of other musicians: 🔔 Subscribe to the channel for the latest vids: @RayChenViolinist?sub_confirmation=1 Recorded live in concert presented by the LA Phil at Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 6th, 2019 This poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869 served as inspiration for Claude Debussy’s most famous work from his “Suite bergamasque“. Your soul is a select landscape Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key Of victorious love and the opportune life, They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight, With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful, That sets the birds dreaming in the trees And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy, The tall slender fountains among marble statues. - Paul Verlaine, 1869 _______________________________________ 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. - Paul Verlaine, 1869 RAY CHEN w e b s i t e : f a c e b o o k : i n s t a g r a m : t w i t t e r : _______________________________________ JULIO ELIZALDE w e b s i t e : f a c e b o o k : i n s t a g r a m : t w i t t e r :