‘Clair de lune’ takes its title from an atmospheric poem by the French poet Paul Verlaine which depicts the soul as somewhere full of music ‘in a minor key’ where birds are inspired to sing by the ...

There's a moment of pure harmonic inspiration in the composer's Clair de lune. And it's so, so simple. Debussy’s music has that ineffable *something* that makes listening to it a bit like this: In ...