Top 5 Favorite Debussy Works

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What are your Top 5 Favorite Debussy works? There are no stipulations to this poll.

My own Top 5 (in no particular order):

Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
La Mer
Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Danses sacrée et profane
Deux arabesques

Todd

Preludes, Book I
Preludes, Book II
Estampes
Images, Book I
Images, Book II
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Trout

Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
La Mer
Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Nocturnes
Préludes (Book I if pressed)

vandermolen

#3
La Mer
Nocturnes
Danses Sacree et Profane
Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien
La Cathedrale Engloutie (from Preludes)

Don't know how to do acute accents on my computer  ::)
"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).

vandermolen

Quote from: Mirror Image on May 28, 2015, 06:59:12 PM


What are your Top 5 Favorite Debussy works? There are no stipulations to this poll.

My own Top 5 (in no particular order):

Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
La Mer
Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Danses sacrée et profane
Deux arabesques

Very nice choices John. I agree with them all although don't know the last one very well. I also love the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp but decided to include a couple of works not yet included on my own list above.
"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).

XB-70 Valkyrie

Life without The Engulfed Cathedral--one of my all-time favorite compositions for piano--would be a very sad affair. I played Dancers of Delphi partly as preparation for some of these huge chords, and will tackle the piece one of these days.

I also play the Arabesque No. 1, which is one of my favorite pieces. However, I dislike the Arabesque No. 2

Footprints in the Snow--another one of my all-time favorites. My teacher is obsessed with tone and has told me it is extremely difficult to play well, despite its relative simplicity.

To round it out:

String Quartet

La Mer



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North Star

#6
Préludes
Images, Books I & II
Six épigraphes antiques
Cello Sonata
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EigenUser

HEY! I already had a poll for this. >:(

(it's cool -- actually, it was only orchestral works)

Jeux
Trois Nocturnes (Sirenes alone would get this, though I love all of them)
La Mer
String Quartet
LMdeSS

I like the violin sonata, too. I still need to hear the one for fl, hp, vla.
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

Mandryka

#8
Flute and harp trio
Pelléas, up to Act 5 (I always feel it gets a bit boring when the doctor turns up.)
Jeux
Mallarmé Poems
En blanc et noir (Etudes also, but the Kalish/Jacobs duet makes me prefer En blanc et noir)
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

Luke

Cello Sonata
Pelleas
Etudes
Preludes
Prelude/faune

amw

#10
Etudes
Preludes I & II
Images I & II
En blanc et noir
today's wildcard choice: Khamma

ZauberdrachenNr.7

I could live with XB's but :
La Mer
Images

String Quartet
Pelléas et Mélisande
Lots of mélodies, but esp. Belle au Bois Dormant.

Drasko

Préludes (both books)
Images (both books)
String Quartet
Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
La Mer

Mirror Image

Quote from: vandermolen on May 28, 2015, 10:03:39 PM
Very nice choices John. I agree with them all although don't know the last one very well. I also love the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp but decided to include a couple of works not yet included on my own list above.

Thanks, Jeffrey. I like your list a lot as well and know all of those works quite well.

Lisztianwagner

La Mer
Nocturnes
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Images pour orchestre
Preludes, I-II
"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." - Gustav Mahler

Brian

Images, Book I
La mer
La plus que lente
La cathedrale engloutie
String quartet

Honorable mentions: Iberia, Estampes

San Antone

Pelléas et Mélisande
Jeux
Khamma
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien

Tie: Violin Sonata/Cello Sonata

Christo

Nocturnes (1897-9)
La mer (1903–5)
Danse sacrée et danse profane (1904)
Le martyre de Saint Sébastien (1911)
Sonata for flute, viola and harp (1915)
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Mr Bloom

All the piano music
Pelleas and  Melisande
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Cello sonata
La mer

And in my imagination :
La chute de la maison Usher

Christo

Quote from: vandermolen on May 28, 2015, 09:56:27 PMDon't know how to do acute accents on my computer  ::)

You're British. You're not supposed to.  8)
... 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