DEBUSSY Sonata for flute, viola and harp | Pahud - Deyneka - Khouri

Claude Debussy
Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Yulia Deyneka, viola
Aline Khouri, harp
Pierre Boulez Saal, Berlin

[@themusicprofessor]

This is such a wonderful, almost miraculous performance! If only Debussy himself could hear it, how he would marvel that one day - over a century hence - musicians would be able to realise the subtleties of his late style, with the marvellous range of different instrumental colours and sonorities mixing in a rich and kaleidescopic way. Debussy's music is always wonderfully atmospheric, but in these late pieces he draws the listener into a mysterious world that seems to hover between different parts of his creative imagination: an imaginary exoticism; a post-impressionist interplay of light, colour and shadow; melancholic introspection, and sudden eruptions of wit and playfulness. This is revelatory musicianship on so many levels!

[@animenome308]

what superb writing you have! are you an actual music professor?

[@knd1940]

One of the many remarkable things about this piece is the degree to which its subject is the sonorities of the instruments themselves. Most music can be transposed for other instruments without changing the essential character of the piece, as when Beethoven transposed his violin concerto for piano, or made the clarinet in his B-flat trio interchangeable with a violin, or when Brahms transposed his clarinet sonatas for viola. But here any change of instrumentation would destroy the entire atmosphere and character of the piece. Imagine substituting a clarinet for the flute, a bassoon for the viola, and a piano for the harp. The music only makes sense as a celebration of the sonorites of the original instruments.

[@dariocaporuscio8701]

It was originally for oboe but he changed it to give a sweeter sonority...

[@andresguillermoalvarezlope418]

You could transpose to other instruments, but u'd have to fundamentally change the dynamics to be able to keep the spirit of the writting, wich Is EXTREMELY texture oriented

[@andresguillermoalvarezlope418]

(the sound's texture i mean)

[@Beethoven_is_god]

So good.... No words can express the depth of this performance. Bravo!

[@pchabanowich]

Oh Claude! What strange Ancient Greek landscape did you inhabit to bring us these gossamer atmospheres of evanescent perfumes and primordial gestures? So wonderfully played and presented! Many thanks.🙏💐

[@silviafrancescapedrini1292]

Flute, harp, viola...so sweet, so fluid, like a farytale.... I was so lucky to see Pahud last year at a concert in strasbourg. A Sunday morning concert, in a small auditorium of the conservatorium...he is just amazing! So were the other musicians, but Pahud puts something infinitely magic in his touch!

[@runtt01]

One of my absolute favorite classical pieces.

[@theopaopa1]

also for me ...

[@MsViland]

Amazing music and amazing musicians! 💔😭🌸

[@BenEtLilian]

0:00 - I Pastorale 6:55 - II Interlude 12:50 - III FInale

[@shin-i-chikozima]

聴いていると浮世の煩わしさを忘れます。 ドビュッシーの音楽はいいなあ 心が洗われます

[@photo161]

This incredible sonata is a kind of miracle, really...so ineffably beautiful. The final pages, so intricately composed, though not at all unhappy always leave me close to tears...tears of joy?

[@johnfisch3917]

Ditto.

[@brunolelissantos1116]

The perfect assimetry of timbre: harp/flute vs viola. Debussy got it. Bravi.

[@theopaopa1]

assimetry ? they sound great together...

[@Tubluer]

@@theopaopa1 symmetry does not always sound best, it can be predictable and uninteresting.

[@halitturgay2453]

Amazing viola player and beautiful music

[@fgb3126]

Very high artistry on full display here.

[@Mikeshawtoday]

Wow, did you hear that first transition from flute to viola? Incredible. Watch him pass it off to her.

[@jacobmorris3664]

Klangfarbenmelodie

[@SM-xl7vs]

Yes they blend so beautifully 👍

[@patrickderp1044]

i hate violas but game respects game

[@una4all1]

Yes! I had to rewind. One of the most seamless transitions I’ve ever heard.

[@fedrofloris4527]

One of the best recordings of this wonderful piece

[@theopaopa1]

yes

[@theopaopa1]

yes

[@sitarnut]

Yes, one of the best, but better and more gracefully done to my ear is by Doriot Anthony -Dwyer and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players on the1970 Deutsche Grammophon LP.

[@theopaopa1]

@@sitarnut I agree with you, jim. I also like these versions... Heidi Lehwalder (harp), Paul Neurbauer (viola) & Ransom Wilson (flute) Sivan Magen (harp), Kim Kashkashian (viola) & Marina Piccinini (flute) Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Lise Berthaud (viola) & Vincent Lucas (flute) best wishes !

[@valentina-arfistka]

Прекрасное исполнение,хороший ансамбль и чувство композитора!

[@ManuelTavares]

The first two minutes where enough for me to ear... That wonderful musicians are like magicians. (By the way Debussy is one of the big absolute masters in music... Any kind of music)

[@FranzKaernBiederstedt]

It's incredible... Yesterday I watched the video with the read-along-score of the piece, and I didn't get a grip on it. It just didn't seem very logic and consistent to me. Now I'm watching this formidable trio play it, and everything is adding up, working. It's just convincing that way, the whole form and structure now seem so organic. It's wonderful!

[@JohnBorstlap]

The secret of 'organic composition' was Debussy's. He got it from observing natural processes and got entrance into the formation behind the surface of natural forms. Also, the fabric of his music is often held together, loosely, by intervallic relationships, inconspicuously, so that it feels organic and interrelated, but not 'consciously constructed'. Of course this way of composing was already done before, Beethoven, Chopin, Wagner. But Debussy took it a 'step further', abolishing all remnants of classical divisions and articulation points, so that the music flows freely from one thing to the other, as in a superb improvisation.

[@Simoncopas]

My favorite piece of music for almost 50 years. So beautiful.

[@pawdaw]

Magic from first note to last

[@LavaMLG]

Favorite work by Debussy!

[@theopaopa1]

yes...

[@newcustoms4019]

GOD I LOVE THIS WORK!!! {15:25~16:13} definitely is my favorite section.

[@michaelschonauer7238]

So many memorable moments in this wonderful performance. I like the casual atmosphere of the venue and the proximity of the performers to the audience.

[@claudioloiacono8068]

Muy hermosa interpretación. Absolutamente mágica.

[@klimtyeung4735]

I had forgot how absolutely beautiful this was.

[@rfyl]

One of the greatest works by one of the greatest geniuses in music. I don't think I've ever seen anyone comment that many sections are heterophonic.

[@spalingerevgeniya8835]

Best version of this work so far! Bravissimo 👏👏👏

[@breakfastplan4518]

The best pahud performance of this Sonata was an outdoor performance with an incredible viola player. Cant remember his name but the video is here on youtube somewhere. This particular performance is a little bit rushed. But this piece is not so much about the players, its more about how many incredibly beautiful themes and ideas Debussy could imply over other ideas. Thats what makes this so wonderful... hes implying so many wonderful things then merely walking away.

[@narekavakianmusique]

Nous vous aimont beaucoup en Armenie! Venez encore.

[@emmanuel77000]

Une délicieuse et intense caresse !! Merci !!! 🙂💓💗💗💗

[@MKTudor]

The viola is lovely! Thank you....

[@AparnaGDeshpande-sb1ze]

A very compelling piece. More than a picture. Definitely a master of technique.

[@ClaudioMendiola]

Esto es tremendamente bello

[@keahende]

Thankful for this type of creativity and beauty in the world.

[@swagmoney1652]

unusual combination of instruments but they all sound beautiful together

[@MuseDuCafe]

A truly great and amazing piece of music so wonderfully played. The music and the performance are breathtakingly good.

[@ЕрмаковичСветлана-ь3к]

Спасибо за прекрасное исполнение! Красота и магия! Чудесно!

[@badeamagdalena1540]

Pahud is excelent🤗🤗🤗

[@sarapiazza7529]

he is. i would choose pahud 100 times over galway, tbh

[@badeamagdalena1540]

@@sarapiazza7529 I disagree you...Galway is an idol for his generation same Pahud

[@b1i2l336]

@@sarapiazza7529 I agree 100%; Pahud has soul.

[@luisagaleano5060]

This is really amazing!

[@brearddidier454]

Quelle grâce! Merci!

[@barbararicordy9317]

faboulouse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jkphonix]

Thomas Mann's "Dr. Faustus" brought me here. What a revelation!❤

[@sergioreyes298]

Am I being hyperbolic? I don't know, but I'll say it: this sonata is the crowning achievement of mankind.

[@sandramara3766]

Bravo

[@yangying801]

Köszönöm))

[@MKTudor]

The flute player is brilliant!

[@ChrisBECKETT-k4x]

Viola. Not a violin. As per the title of the work...

[@cristianmejia8932]

¡Sublimee! 👏👏👏👏 🎻🎼🌌🌃🎆🎉❤❤

[@infuturum4195]

4:35 that's what heaven must sound like

[@kaog4180]

最高ですね。Sublime!

[@dalybor]

Amazing ... ❤

[@75Chopin]

Very educated Berlin audience, just before the very end, there was a pause that people could have thought was the end, and in NY people may have clapped already!

[@whyask9275]

Not endorsing a government that committed crimes against humanity might have shown even better education. (Yeah, we've already been told 'we didn't know'.)

[@gcg8187]

@@whyask9275 what

[@whyask9275]

"Very educated Berlin" declared war on the world.

[@juanguerra99]

if someone clapped before the end is just a part of the game of listening and enjoying music. Being well taught about hearing music is being able to show your apreciation for it at any time of the piece

[@lilyc4566]

@@whyask9275 The government. Not the people.

[@emke5664]

Great!

[@sergioreyes298]

THIS IS IT!

[@theopaopa1]

just perfect

[@Batirhoven]

2 1:22 dance 3 2:18 srednii 4 6:55 part 2 5 9:25 6 11:15 7 12:50 part 3 8 14:38 srednii 9 16:38 rem

[@flutefury]

tres fantastique

[@flutube6203]

Perfect

[@Nicoleth]

0:03 6:57 12:51

[@warmbread2550]

Who said a viola can’t play beautifully

[@alexsanchez9247]

2 set violin

[@flutesgalaxy]

@@alexsanchez9247 Yes, that's right hahaha

[@proberaum7015]

Me! NOT! ;-)

[@Scriabin_fan]

@@alexsanchez9247 came here to say this lmao

[@lucialugriscasares2401]

who said who said a viola can't play beatufully

[@newcustoms4019]

Pahud & Gordon Ramsey are both God's among men.

[@JohnWesleyBarker]

Superb performance, is there a HiRes audio or similar available?

[@Inielboult75018]

Bravo j adore . Mais comment peut on mettre des dislikes a cette vidéo ???!!!

[@theopaopa1]

imbéciles ...

[@flutube6203]

Tres etrange vraiment. Peut etre la jalousie

[@jorgeaguirre7260]

It's one of my favourite, if not my all time favourite, chamber piece. The interpretation could have been a little bit warmer in the viola. But overall the sentiment is totally there.

[@stephanieperez6640]

🎼💘✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@mrtriffid]

What music would Debussy have written if he had lived another 10 or 20 years?

[@theopaopa1]

who knows... I regret not being able to know the other three sonatas that he had planned to write...

[@ryanjsimpson]

lush

[@davidecirillo9675]

14:44 Stravinsky enters the chat

[@Mohnblume003]

☘️🧡☘️

[@thomasstiegler767]

Hello, could you tell me who owns the rights to this video and who I can contact for queries? Thank you and best regards!

[@albi400]

i dettagli sono ... tutto!

[@TheCecyFernandes]

"To blow is not to play on the flute; you must move the fingers." [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[@Ilheo1]

The flute is a wind instrument. Not a mouth, neither a finger instrument. Pahud, E.

[@annemajerik991]

i attempt playing!! Not one note sounds like his equisite sound!!

[@zelyo2847]

6:55

[@zelyo2847]

7:00

[@zelyo2847]

7:04

[@zelyo2847]

7:03

[@zelyo2847]

7:12

[@zelyo2847]

7:19

[@thethikboy]

Flute melts into violin infused with effervescent harp- supernal fish play and jump

[@zoliviol]

Why play something that is not what Debussy wanted? There is no glissando in bar 5 between the E natural and the A flat, but there should be sul ponticello from measure 14. Little things like that become annoying mistakes in an otherwise beautiful interpretation.

[@roberthead2408]

Not if you don’t point them out

[@zoliviol]

@@roberthead2408 there are those of us players out there who care and respect what the composer had wanted. That does not mean I do not enjoy most of this recording.

[@jaune4720]

you're old