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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
Preludes, Book I
Preludes, Book II
Estampes
Images, Book I
Images, Book II
Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
La Mer
Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
Nocturnes
Préludes (Book I if pressed)
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 ::)
Quote from: Mirror Image on May 28, 2015, 06:59:12 PM
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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
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.
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
Préludes
Images, Books I & II
Six épigraphes antiques
Cello Sonata
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.
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)
Cello Sonata
Pelleas
Etudes
Preludes
Prelude/faune
Etudes
Preludes I & II
Images I & II
En blanc et noir
today's wildcard choice: Khamma
I could live with XB's but :
La Mer
Images
String Quartet
Pelléas et Mélisande
Lots of mélodies, but esp. Belle au Bois Dormant.
Préludes (both books)
Images (both books)
String Quartet
Prélude à L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
La Mer
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.
La Mer
Nocturnes
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Images pour orchestre
Preludes, I-II
Images, Book I
La mer
La plus que lente
La cathedrale engloutie
String quartet
Honorable mentions: Iberia, Estampes
Pelléas et Mélisande
Jeux
Khamma
Le Martyre de saint Sébastien
Tie: Violin Sonata/Cello Sonata
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)
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
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)
Pelleas et Melisande
Images, Set 1
Images, Set 2
La damoiselle élue
La fille aux cheveux de lin
Nocturnes
Jeux
Preludes, Book 1
Etudes
La Mer
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.
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.
Piano music:
Preludes both books
Images both books
Images oubliés
Or is image feminine?
*averts his eyes from ZauberdrachenNr7's La Mer enormity*
La mer
Le martyre de Saint Sébastien
Pelléas et Mélisande
Préludes
Images
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.
La Mer
La mEr
La MeR
La mER
La MEr
What about La meR?
Quote from: Christo on May 31, 2015, 09:23:58 PM
What about La meR?
Damn! Thanks for pointing that out.
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)
String Quartet
Nocturnes
La cathédrale engloutie (Préludes, Book 1)
La mer
Piano Trio (early and rather uncharacteristic but lovely)
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.
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.
Jeux
Preludes Book 2
Etudes for piano
Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Pelleas et Melisande
Images for orchestra
La Mer
Estampes
Nocturnes
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Runner-ups:
Printemps, Danse sacrée et Danse profane, Jeux, String quartet
Pelléas et Mélisande
Images Set 1
Images Set 2
Préludes Book 1
La Damoiselle élue
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
La Mer
Nocturnes
Suite bergamasque
Preludes, Book 1
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
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)
Quote from: North Star on May 28, 2015, 10:24:29 PM
Préludes
Images, Books I & II
Six épigraphes antiques
Cello Sonata
This very well could be my choices. My list really does change everyday.
Nocturnes
Images pour orchestre
La mer
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'une faune
After that the piano music in no particular order
Never got on with Jeux or any of the vocal music.
Quote from: Mirror Image on 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)
This is such a fine list that I think I'll just leave it, but I'd probably exchange
La damoiselle élue for
Sonata for Flute, Viola, & Harp as this is one of my favorite pieces of music from anyone.
1. Pelleas et Melisande
2. Cello sonata
3. Violin sonata
4. Sonata for flute, viola and harp
5. String Quartet
Honorable mention: just about any of the piano works or songs
Voyons.... :)
Jeux
Images pour orchestre
Images pour piano, premier livre
Études pour piano
Trios chansons de Bilitis
Quote from: Todd on May 28, 2015, 07:17:09 PM
Preludes, Book I
Preludes, Book II
Estampes
Images, Book I
Images, Book II
I can go with this. I am fond of the Images Oubliées. Piano music all the way, and the some of the chamber music.
Quote from: ritter on February 28, 2019, 11:50:03 AM
Voyons.... :)
Jeux
Images pour orchestre
Images pour piano, premier livre
Études pour piano
Trios chansons de Bilitis
A fine list, Rafael. 8)