Top 5 Favorite Debussy Works

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Jaakko Keskinen

#20
May 30, 2015, 09:12:48 AM
Pelleas et Melisande
Images, Set 1
Images, Set 2
La damoiselle élue
La fille aux cheveux de lin
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

NJ Joe

#21
May 30, 2015, 04:15:59 PM
Nocturnes
Jeux
Preludes, Book 1
Etudes
La Mer
"Music can inspire love, religious ecstasy, cathartic release, social bonding, and a glimpse of another dimension. A sense that there is another time, another space and another, better universe."
-David Byrne

Karl Henning

#22
May 30, 2015, 06:49:01 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on May 29, 2015, 10:45:18 AM
Pelléas et Mélisande
Jeux
Khamma
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien

Tie: Violin Sonata/Cello Sonata
Khamma is a lovely, underesteemed work.
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
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Boston MA
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[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

San Antone

#23
May 30, 2015, 07:36:39 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on May 30, 2015, 06:49:01 PM
Khamma is a lovely, underesteemed work.

Could have to do with the fact that Charles Kochelin finished the orchestration, at Debussy's request.  However, the original piano version has been recorded by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

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Also included is the piano version of Jeux.  Both well worth hearing.

Ken B

#24
May 30, 2015, 07:58:25 PM
Piano music:
Preludes both books
Images both books
Images oubliés

Or is image feminine?

*averts his eyes from ZauberdrachenNr7's La Mer enormity*

Wanderer

#25
May 31, 2015, 12:24:56 AM
La mer
Le martyre de Saint Sébastien
Pelléas et Mélisande
Préludes
Images

Wanderer

#26
May 31, 2015, 12:26:45 AM
Quote from: Ken B on May 30, 2015, 07:58:25 PM
Images oubliés

Or is image feminine?

It is, so it's Images oubliées.

Dancing Divertimentian

#27
May 31, 2015, 06:56:47 PM
La Mer
La mEr
La MeR
La mER
La MEr

Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Christo

#28
May 31, 2015, 09:23:58 PM
What about La meR?
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Dancing Divertimentian

#29
June 01, 2015, 08:05:35 AM
Quote from: Christo on May 31, 2015, 09:23:58 PM
What about La meR?

Damn! Thanks for pointing that out.


Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Christo

#30
June 01, 2015, 08:18:28 AM
Five lovely pieces that I happen to like very much, though I don't claim any masterpiece status for them:

Petite Suite (1886-89) (orch. Henri Busser) (En bateau, Cortége, Menuet, Ballet)
Danse / Tarantelle styrienne (1890)  (orch. Maurice Ravel)
Marche ecossaise (1891/1908 orch.)
Deux Gymnopédies by Erik Satie (orch. Claude Debussy 1897)
Children's Corner (1906-08) (orch. André  Caplet) (Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, Jimbo's Lullaby, Serenade for the doll, The snow is dancing, The little shepherd, Golliwog's cakewalk)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

kyjo

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October 01, 2017, 10:04:34 PM Last Edit: October 01, 2017, 10:06:14 PM by kyjo
String Quartet
Nocturnes
La cathédrale engloutie (Préludes, Book 1)
La mer
Piano Trio (early and rather uncharacteristic but lovely)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

vandermolen

#32
October 02, 2017, 04:40:47 AM Last Edit: October 02, 2017, 04:42:25 AM by vandermolen
Quote from: kyjo on October 01, 2017, 10:04:34 PM
String Quartet
Nocturnes
La cathédrale engloutie (Préludes, Book 1)
La mer
Piano Trio (early and rather uncharacteristic but lovely)
Great list - agree entirely but would add Danses Sacree et Profane.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

kyjo

#33
October 02, 2017, 06:18:54 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 02, 2017, 04:40:47 AM
Great list - agree entirely but would add Danses Sacree et Profane.

I wanted to include that one as well - great piece.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Mahlerian

#34
October 02, 2017, 08:31:46 AM
Jeux
Preludes Book 2
Etudes for piano
Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Pelleas et Melisande
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

SymphonicAddict

#35
October 02, 2017, 05:03:24 PM
Images for orchestra
La Mer
Estampes
Nocturnes
Sonata for flute, viola and harp

Runner-ups:

Printemps, Danse sacrée et Danse profane, Jeux, String quartet

Jaakko Keskinen

#36
October 03, 2017, 08:55:19 AM
Pelléas et Mélisande
Images Set 1
Images Set 2
Préludes Book 1
La Damoiselle élue
"Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when hideous, remain grand."

- Victor Hugo

Autumn Leaves

#37
October 07, 2017, 12:46:59 AM
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
La Mer
Nocturnes
Suite bergamasque
Preludes, Book 1

Mirror Image

#38
March 31, 2018, 07:43:17 AM Last Edit: April 16, 2018, 07:18:10 PM by Mirror Image
My list has changed quite a bit. In no particular order:

Préludes, Books I & II (I'll count them as one work)
Pelléas et Mélisande
Images, Series I & II
Jeux
Sonata for flute, viola, & harp

Runners-up:

Études
Estampes
Children's Corner
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
Chansons de Bilitis

Mirror Image

#39
April 16, 2018, 07:28:07 PM
Today's list:

Études
Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
String Quartet in G minor
Images, Books I & II
La damoiselle élue (esp. the version for soprano, mezzo-soprano, chorus, and piano)
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