Claude Debussy - La cathedrale engloutie (The Sunken Cathedral)
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This is a video from the first solo piano recital I've ever given...naturally I was a bit nervous. This is Debussy's "La cathedrale engloutie", or The Sunken Cathedral, from Preludes: Book I. This was the first piece I started learning with my new teacher, about a year ago. I didn't find it too difficult to learn, but it got much harder once I started trying to memorize it. With a bit of return practice in the last couple weeks, though, it felt a lot more comfortable once again. This is another piece that REALLY makes me wish I had a bigger piano; those powerful chords don't exactly shake the room like I wish they would. Still, I think it went alright except for a couple ugly chords here and there. Hope you like it.
