{"id":3864,"date":"2016-03-16T14:28:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=3864"},"modified":"2020-07-01T10:24:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T17:24:48","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-julian-bream-and-john-williams-play-debussys-clair-de-lune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-julian-bream-and-john-williams-play-debussys-clair-de-lune\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Julian Bream and John Williams Play Debussy&#8217;s &#8216;Clair de lune&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the greatest classical guitarists England has ever produced, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_Bream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julian Bream<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnwilliamsguitarnotes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Williams<\/a>, team up here for an unforgettable version of French composer Claude Debussy&#8217;s impressionist masterpiece\u00a0<em>Clair de lune<\/em>. The Debussy piece, which he began in 1890 but didn&#8217;t complete and publish until 1905, was, like so many famous &#8220;guitar&#8221; pieces, written for the piano originally. In this case,<em> Clair de lune<\/em> was the third movement of a work called <em>Suite bergamasque<\/em>, and originally titled <em>Promenade sentimentale<\/em> by the composer. Both the eventual movement name and the overall suite title come from an 1869 poem called &#8220;Clair de lune,&#8221; by Paul Verlaine. An album recording of Williams and Bream playing <em>Clair de lune<\/em> appears on the excellent two-CD set, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Together-BREAM-JULIAN-WILLIAMS-JOHN\/dp\/B000026R40\/ref=sr_1_5?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458162772&amp;sr=1-5&amp;keywords=julian+bream+and+john+williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Together: The Ultimate Collection<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the greatest classical guitarists England has ever produced, Julian Bream and John Williams, team up here for an unforgettable version of French composer Claude Debussy&#8217;s impressionist masterpiece\u00a0Clair de lune. The Debussy piece, which he began in 1890 but didn&#8217;t complete and publish until 1905, was, like so many famous &#8220;guitar&#8221; pieces, written for the piano originally. In this case, Clair de lune was the third movement of a work called Suite bergamasque, and originally titled Promenade sentimentale by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[145],"class_list":["post-3864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watch","tag-julian-bream","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/WILLAIMS-AND-BREAM-1.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}