CLAIR DE LUNE

Created on 29/02/2016
Latest update on 17/11/2023

Artist: Claude Debussy
Author: Claude Debussy
Year: 1905

Third part of his Suite Bergamasque. Original title of that part: Promenade sentimentale, renamed after a poem by Paul Verlaine, also holding the title of the whole piano suite: Votre âme est un paysage choisi, que vont charmant masques et bergamasques. (uit Clair de lune - 1869).

Covers:

1927:

Percy Grainger

1937:

Philadelphia Orchestra [with Leopold Stokowski; animated for Disney film Fantasia but deleted; the same animation was re-used under Disney tone-poem Blue Bayou, sung by the Ken Darby Chorus in '43]

1956:

Dimitri Tiomkin [Love Theme (There's Never Been Anyone Else But You) in film Giant with James Dean]

1956:

Perry Como [as Moonlight Love; lyrics: Mitchell Parish]

1957:

Roger Williams [idem]

1961:

Steve Lawrence [as My Claire De Lune]

1963:

Philadelphia Orchestra [with Eugene Ormandy; in 2001 in film Ocean's Eleven]

1963:

Jay & The Americans [as My Clair De Lune]

1966:

Sarah Vaughan [as Moonlight Love]

1974:

Tomita

1976:

Styx [intro to Ballerina]

2015:

Kamasi Washington

2015:

Lana Del Rey [at the end of Freak]

Contact


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