Chris Rea - Giverny video free download

Claude Monet's garden at Giverny with the breathy tones of Chris Rea, singing "Giverny".

One can see where he got his inspiration for this beautiful song, Included in his "On The Beach" album

"On the Beach" is an original classic album by Chris Rea, released in 1986. It reached No. 11 in the UK Albums Chart.

Personnel

Chris Rea -- vocals, guitars, keyboards, piano, fretless bass, bits

Max Middleton -- piano, rhodes

Kevin Leach -- keyboards

Eoghan O'Neill -- bass

Dave Mattacks -- drums

Adrian Rea -- drums

Martin Ditcham -- percussion

Robert Awhai -- guitars

Stuart Eals -- recording

David Richards -- mixing

Stylo Rouge -- sleeve design

Ekkeheart Gurlitt -- photography

Francoise La Port -- photography

David Richards -- producer

Jim Beach -- management

Paul Lilly -- management

Giverny is a commune in the Eure department in northern France. It is best known as the location of Claude Monet's garden and home.

Claude Monet noticed the village of Giverny while looking out of a train window. He made up his mind to move there and rented a house and the area surrounding it. In 1890 he had enough money to buy the house and land outright and set out to create the magnificent gardens he wanted to paint. Some of his most famous paintings were of his garden in Giverny, famous for its rectangular Clos normand, with archways of climbing plants entwined around colored shrubs, and the water garden, formed by a tributary to the Epte, with the Japanese bridge, the pond with the water lily, the wisterias and the azaleas. Monet lived in the house with its famous pink crushed brick façade from 1883 until his death in 1926. He and many members of his family are interred in the village cemetery.

Claude Monet's property at Giverny (house and gardens), left by his son to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1966 became a Museum opened to public visit in 1980 after completion of large-scale restoration work: the huge Nymphea's studio was restored and the precious collection of Japanese engravings was displayed in several rooms, hung in the manner chosen by the master himself; the gardens were replanted as they once were. The house become a popular tourist attraction (the Claude Monet Foundation), particularly in the summer when the flowers are in bloom.

The other main attraction of the village is the Museum of Impressionism Giverny dedicated to the history of impressionism and its continuation in the Giverny art colony and along the valley of the river Seine.

Deep inside these old dusty walls

There's a sacred heart, I'd know this garden anywhere

She was warm, she was deep summertime

She was love itself and she was standing there

Standing close, so close to me

I closed my eyes and I could see

Giverny

And in this strange and holy place

I looked for love and found it everywhere

It was what you saw she came to see

Because of you she was standing there

Giverny

Books may burn and rain may fall

But what is here I know will last forever more

Colours change, there are no defines

She was love itself and I thank you for giving me

Giverny....