Claude Debussy - Pagodes (Pagodas)
817 views · Published 24 August 2009 · 5:23 · Indexed 20 September 2026
This is a video from the first solo piano recital I've ever given...naturally I was a bit nervous. This is Debussy's "Pagodes", or Pagodas, from the "Estampes" suite (Stamps). I'm...actually not too happy with this performance. I love this piece, but I feel like I didn't give a very good interpretation of it. I don't know...I just feel like it didn't flow well enough. Obviously, as an Impressionistic piece it depicts a scene, but I really feel that all I put out was a montage of unrelated passages. And the ending...well, I've performed it much more cleanly before. I think part of the mess this time around came from playing the climax too quickly. Hope you like it anyway.
