Ballade pour adeline

Paul De Senneville: Ballade Pour Adeline Richard clayderman



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX6278WWQHQ





Richard Clayderman (born Philippe Pagès on December 28, 1953, Paris, France) is a French pianist who has released numerous albums, including renditions and arrangements of popular music, French chansons, and popular piano works of Beethoven, Chopin and Mozart.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=richard+clayderman+piano+piece



Most of his recordings focus on popular music in general and orchestral arrangements of well-known romantic songs in particular, such as Yesterday, The Sound of Silence and Memory, rather than on Jazz or Classical Music.



He is known to alter many famous pieces of music such as Fur Elise. His music is generally played with an orchestra. This accompaniment is usually with James Last's orchestra.









Born to a piano teacher, Clayderman started studying to play piano at age six, and he was accepted at a Conservatory of Music in Paris at age 12. After finishing Conservatory he worked as an accompanist and session musician. His life changed dramatically in 1976, when he recorded a single "Ballade pour Adeline", composed by French musical producer Paul de Senneville. The single became an instant success, selling 22 million copies in 38 countries. Since then, he has recorded over 1000 songs and has become one of the most successful instrumental recording artists in the world, with reported record sales in excess of 70 million units worldwide. In the peak of his career he performed 200 concerts in 250 days.



He is often credited with pioneering the piano recordings of famous Hollywood soundtracks and pop music artists, such as ABBA.







Success

Clayderman has a curious market niche on third world countries, a fact mainly attributed by critics to his commercially-oriented performance of local and very popular music (especially love songs), and inexpensive, well-distributed records. On the other hand, there are people who refer to his work as elevator music [1] (Article in Portuguese), because of extensive playing of his production in neutral spaces as elevators, malls and other public spaces. Richard Clayderman, however, according to the linked interview, does not see this classification as negative as, according to him, he feels pleased to turn people's workplaces and daily lives into more pleasant places through the use of his music.



Clayderman's music continues to be exceedingly popular in East Asia, in places such as Japan , Taiwan and mainland China. Some Chinese music teachers attribute the popularity of his music in Mainland China to the increase in the number of piano students since the 1980s. According to the book Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams, published 1990, Clayderman was the most-played artist in China then.[citation needed]







































































due to limited of words at yahoo, all of the performance of more can look at youtube & the link i post

Richard Claderman(理查．克萊曼)
生於1953年,法國人,原名菲力普．格斯,
自幼跟隨擔任鋼琴教師的dad習琴,16歲即以優秀成積畢業於巴黎的音樂戲劇學校.
擅長演奏蕭邦,拉貝爾,帕德布等人的品,在古典音樂界是一顆明日之星.
但是,他對通俗的音樂開始產生興趣,不顧周遭的反對,毅然轉變方向
起初為米謝爾．沙德擔任伴奏,經常出入錄音室因此結識了目前法國通俗最受歡迎的 家奧利維．陶桑
當時是1977年初，由於理查．克萊曼不僅具有高度的琴技,且有深厚的音樂性,深獲陶桑之賞識
1977年終於以獨奏姿態初次登台演奏通俗鋼琴曲,那便是「水邊的阿弟麗娜」
「水邊的阿弟麗娜」在法國受歡迎外,聲名遠播至西班牙,德國,比利時等歐洲諸國,連墨西哥,加拿大等南美州都很流行.
此種通俗音樂如此轟動乃是極罕見之事,他所彈的曲目如波爾．莫利亞的「西巴女王」,聖．布爾樂團的「兩個天使」等.
陶桑所監製的LP唱片「星空下的鋼琴手」銷量十分好,接著又於1977年秋到78年間發表「秋的 語」更受歡迎.鞏固了理查．克萊曼的通俗鋼琴名星的地位.

2007-06-29 18:59:58 補充：
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2007-06-29 19:02:24 補充：
佢個名係Richard Clayderman