EMMANUEL PAHUD | Claude Debussy, "Syrinx" for solo flute

EMMANUEL PAHUD
Claude Debussy, "Syrinx" for solo flute
Live from Berliner Philharmonie

[@benoitlaine1131]

This is precisely where Pahud shines. No doubt he's a great flutist all round, as there are many others, but this kind of music and solo performance allows him to show his best. Emotional, but not overdone, lots of nuances, a personnal interpretation but with lots of musicality and nothing superfluous or gratuitous.

[@jophielnicholls276]

It's interesting to see how all the great artists articulate differently... With their own unique style, delivering the same "story"... Of the piece of music But in their own particular way .... With the subtle nuances.. Still eloquent with the expression but with different character... Different shading ..

[@mortalwizard1988]

U forgot James Galway

[@alhdgysz]

@@mortalwizard1988 no. Since he made a comment on how flexible and sophisticated is Pahud's tone. Galway should not be mentioned in this context. Galway lacks any kind of color palette. He is good with is fingers, but has a truly horrible tone

[@ilariaminiussi4651]

I do like Galway, I’m curious to know why you’re saying he’s a horrible tone. He plays beautifully, perhaps Pahud set a very high standard for flute players, but I wouldn’t say that about Galway. He’s still one of the best flutist out there.

[@alhdgysz]

@@ilariaminiussi4651 he is far from good. He lacks flexibility, openness. His lips are squeezed together, and the angle is wrong. He cannot use his cavities in his head. He has a closed throat, and a disgusting ketchup vibrato. He plays everything in the same, forced style. He cannot play with our feelings, and doesn't have a colour palette. His tone is thin, doesn't project and doesn't have a core. Cannot stand him, and the pretentious self-loving attitude he has. He is a horrible musician. But, he has good fingering technique, he can play fast. And that is enough to sell himself. He become an icon for that. Everyone loves him for that. Well, everyone who has no taste and ear 🤷‍♂️ THIS video is the perfect example that shows how horrible is he as a flute player.

[@carlinehiggs1261]

I have listened to at least 5 different performers play this and Pahud did the absolute best.

[@oliviarikki2278]

He has such beautiful tone quality

[@tetsuten]

Beyond. This is it. Dynamics and flow, silence and whispers. This piece gives you the scenery, the space in which music arises. Humbled. Thank you.

[@pedrokoury1352]

Pierre Turlur I've always found it very interesting - and not that obvious - how silence is as much part of music as the sound produced with instruments...!

[@meyahinti]

Quien carajos le da no me gusta a este video. Ésta es la mejor versión de Syrinx. Su expresión corporal parece una coreografía. Es un performance muy coherente, gran apropiación del trasfondo de la obra, con una técnica del sonido impecable y gran elegancia y porte escénico.

[@willagreen3043]

I'm really " getting into" Pahud, and I think he's so incredibly strong and the very most sophisticated flutist, not to mention that he seems very nice. Love Pahud' s emphasis on intonation. He makes a mistake here that I make--focusing on performing individual phrases rather than connecting all phrases together for hearing the effect of the whole piece. I always have to think it through more, think it through more. Pahud is great!

[@joanfalldine1402]

I have never, and will never, hear this more perfectly and beautifully performed.

[@dianalima3155]

The tone, the dynamics, the colors... his presence... THAT's bliss.

[@jochanaan58]

Very free, as if he were improvising or discovering it with the audience. Well done!

[@andreasmazur4352]

What a wonderful musician he is - a real magician of colours! And the violin-like portamento in bar 19 let us flautist simply said shiver.....BRAVO!! Thank you so much Emmanuel Pahud!!

[@Catiec7]

Absolutely my favourite rendition of Syrinx!

[@TR-lo9up]

That silence at the end--- OOOOO

[@Sarah.Riedel]

Talia Rodriguez when I would play this I would stretch the little silences out reeeeaaaaaally long, I was playing it in a church and you could literally stand there and listen to the echoes bouncing off the walls.

[@davidvincent380]

When you listen to Pahud, the silence that follows is still Pahud ;)

[@christianhall3051]

As all good mysterious song should be

[@kempo9jo]

素晴らしい！

[@gennadygefter4011]

Best interpretation ever!!! All others have rights to exist, but this one capturing the essence of French Impressionism. BRAVO MAESTRO !!!

[@IDEEINDIGO]

Richesse de la palette chromatique et du champ des nuances, usage raisonné et sensible du timbre du vibrato au son "blanc", liberté mais intelligence des respirations, sens du phrasé... C'est de la très grande flûte... C'est Emmanuel Pahud qui, lorsque je suis venu l'écouter à Strasbourg avait autant à donner à Schubert (Arpegionne) qu'à Debussy. Je lui vois deux "chevalières" l'accompagnant :Jasmine Choi mais surtout Marina Piccinini, l'une pour sa technique précise, l'autre pour son panache et son inspiration unique... M. Pahud, au plaisir de nous revoir.

[@TheSlimification1]

This sounds great to listen to while I read the comments..

[@markjacksonturner6462]

Superb intonation, phrasing, dynamics. Lyrically empowered.

[@antenaboume]

This is so haunting... Close your eyes and you're in a forest in Ancient Greece and Dionysus appears before you.

[@Jumperbumper247]

i dont have eyelids

[@porkstarsamsmithson5042]

40th like

[@danielchavez5830]

I tried and couldn’t keep my eyes closed lol

[@koala462]

Please do stop dispraising his performance!!! Why do we have to imagine a forest in Ancient Greece!?!? Okay I don't care. Even with such critics like yours, his performance is supreme.

[@av6765]

@@koala462 I don’t think they were necessarily dispraising... I love this performance, but it’s still natural for listeners to imagine scenes following the music. Everyone is different, so they imagine different things. This doesn’t mean insulting his playing; in fact, it just shows that his playing has such variety that we can clearly imagine a story just from his music.

[@elvinacheah]

So much control in each note. Loved it

[@MrStewbee]

He takes much liberty with this piece... I enjoyed it.

[@rineric3214]

Pahud is definitely tied for first place now. We are so lucky. Rampal, too!

[@andreasmazur4352]

The best rendition of this keywork in our repertoire EVER.

[@user-ug9hu5ow2z]

パユさんのモーツァルトコンチェルト、良いですね・・♪

[@user-rd7zt9po9z]

感動 🌠🎶👍

[@rebecagomez4504]

La interpretación de Emmanuel Pahud de "Syrinx" de Claude Debussy para flauta sola es simplemente impresionante. Pahud es conocido por su habilidad técnica excepcional y su expresividad musical, y esta interpretación no es una excepción

[@DoctorFlute]

Yet another beautiful rendition of the hauntingly beautiful piece.

[@user-xr8rb1it4l]

Bravo, Bravo, Bravo. The most authentic "French" version. I listened again and can really hear this now--the attention/devotion given in the performance. Beautiful up to the Denouëment and down to my favorite phrase at 3:14 and again at 3:18. Wonderful feeling and sonorite.

[@arielfrola2040]

The Best interpretation, Congratulations Sir Emmanuel Pahud.

[@sissif7038]

Quelle merveille, décidement je ne m'en lasserai jamais, sublissime !!!!!

[@lisahakesley89]

One of the best interpretations I’ve heard. Exquisite n

[@flutefury]

so beautiful, such class and emotion..... bravo!

[@paytonbanks2913]

I love syrinx. It is my favorite flute piece (to listen to). I feel like it would be a really good piece to do yoga to

[@EliezerPennywhistler]

+Payton Banks Then you'd never hear it.

[@flauto67]

Great Emmanuel....wonderful sound...amazing

[@TogetherinParis]

Beautiful, unique, and quite thoughtful performance! Great job! You have opened my eyes to a better way to play this piece.

[@jengreene958]

Thank you! Spectacular! Outstanding!!!!

[@MattiKovler]

Beautiful sense of nuance and tastefully done.

[@philippecirse4872]

Spirituelle, sensorielle et rebelle, la musique de ce compositeur reflète des impostures secrètes, explore des plaisirs sereins, un monde de rêves renaissants🌺🕊

[@ashlynkro]

Bruh from memory too what a beast

[@Chiollodario]

It's so beautiful....amazing performance!

[@madisonferguson3907]

i play flute and this piece is amazing! I LOVE IT!!!

[@kiriko4779]

丁寧で過剰じゃない感じが好き。

[@anagator3051]

Pahud is life though God gave him an amazing talent. AAAHHHGGGGHHHHHH HES SO GOOD

[@iliobarontini4826]

Flautista e Musicista unico!

[@ernietollar407]

love all of it. the phrase leading to 3:01 had something different than most classical players would do to my ear.

[@melodiechopin9652]

Merci , très belle interprétation, un régal pour les amateurs

[@MsFrancescaF]

Mesmerized in every fiber.

[@pierreorhan]

féerique, magique, exceptionnel.

[@michelsandrel]

Excellent !!! Michel.

[@karl-johanb.nielsen8170]

"i will pay you in stories of my abusive father, set to dissonant flute. I was seven when he first came home drunk, a child should sleep on his bed, not under it"

[@walterwhite2525]

@som Slovaak Nope

[@flutesgalaxy]

@som Slovaak hollymolly

[@lance_wavy]

Whisper talking peter 😂😂😂

[@susanshawflute6729]

la perfection absolue

[@EmmaPathy]

Oh how I love this piece

[@tanjanovicic2926]

🕊🌹🌹🌹❤🕊 More,more than beaitifully.

[@precipitationlane9507]

I'm playing this solo at school.... how the heck am I supposed to make it sound just as beautiful?? ( ;A; )

[@user-xi3eb3oq8u]

practice again nad again! I'm also want to make beautiful sound like him.

[@user-xi3eb3oq8u]

practice again nad again! I'm also want to make beautiful sound like him.

[@precipitationlane9507]

+Bread I actually already auditioned and I got a one! :D

[@Smood47]

Don't need to aspire to have it be as good as the best player in the world so early. Work up to a better and better sound gradually.

[@cheaseeds3063]

I know right I’m doing the flute at school

[@janiceepperson2722]

This is the music I'd expect to hear upom emterimg am Egyptiam pyramid. First heard it im the early 50's whem it was the theme for the TV program "What Im the World?" Always gave me goosebumps!! (sorry for the vrokem computer keys).

[@DeltaRana4]

Truly beautiful interpretation.

[@lejedidelingo]

so brilliant as always ... so pefect as always ... So pahud ...

[@Inielboult75018]

+lejedidelingo Eh manu ce gars ose te comprarer a Galway !!! On aura tout entendu.

[@sophie0207]

It seams, The flute plays by itself....amazing

[@mr.fluteguy7640]

One of the greatest of all time!

[@nottingham_ChrisAllison]

This is pretty awesome stuff!

[@BlondeAndBougie]

I played this in Cillege for Recital Lab. Loved it!!

[@rogfusionkid]

Beutiful.

[@flutist_shinyoung]

Fantastisch!!!super♡

[@user-oh9gm7nk8f]

Przecudnie , klasą!!!!!

[@charismensah4380]

Beautiful! Playing this for my grade 8

[@BrendaR4a]

Bravo! Very not boring! I'm so tired of this piece, but I could listen to this performance again! ☺️

[@everready2903]

Have you heard him in Pavane?

[@BrendaR4a]

@@everready2903 no! And I also don’t like Pavane, unless I myself and playing it, and if I am having a good lungs day. 🙃

[@everready2903]

@@BrendaR4a Oh you don't like Pavane? I adore it! But I'm super impressed you can play the flute! I'm afraid I'm just an admirer of such artistic beautiful sounds! Ok you don't like Favane but MAYBE you might like it here..... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpnMh6h_h9xnqq8

[@erpl6417]

Don't torture yourself with this music, listen to something else...You sound like your parents forced you to playing music when you were a kid!

[@BrendaR4a]

@@erpl6417 I do not know why you would think that. I waited impatiently till I was old enough that my mom would let me hold her flute, and even did violin in school a year earlier because strings started in 4th grade at school but winds didn’t start till 5th grade. My parents never had to nag me to practice. Playing the flute is the greatest joy of my life and core to my sense of identity. I suspect God created me as a musician. But there are flute pieces that are so famous I have heard them a million times by now, and I’ve always preferred playing the flute over listening to someone else do it. If I want to listen to music I usually choose large orchestral or large choral works. My favorite instruments to listen to are piano cello and trumpet.

[@Hellooo103]

So good!!!

[@oliviadawn9002]

Amazing.

[@petyavasileva8594]

Bravo!

[@Jemjy_]

Beautiful! If only I could play this like him! >_

[@clss5240]

パユの全ての演奏に共通することですが、動きを真似ると理想的に緊張が緩み、体が一体となって共振するように感じる。体型や筋肉の関係で多少は違うが基本的に同じ感覚だろう。口元でコントロールすることも可能とですが、求める音質や音色ではなくなってしまう。スポーツで『技は盗め』と教えてもらえなかったことがあるが、その意味がパユの動画を沢山見て初めて分かったような気がした。一度動きの意味を理解してしまえば忘れることはない感覚です。目を閉じて違う人の演奏を聞いてもその人の動きが分かってしまったりする。姿勢は一番わかり易いところです。ユーチューブが普通に見れる事はすごいことです。最高の先生の授業を何回も受講しているに等しい。 マスタークラスで先生が演奏の手本を少しオーバーアクションで教えてくれている時、先生を見れるように楽譜は暗譜しておけばいいのにと思ってっしまう。真似をしたら急に思っているような音が出せるかも知れないのに。（先生と同じような音が出せる姿勢です）　テクニックの練習と演奏の感覚を身につける練習をすると面白いと思う。

[@emke5664]

👍 Heard him some years ago in ER , great!

[@patrickyeh]

Stunning vibrato

[@jamilettenavarro81]

Hermoso!!! 👏👏👏👏

[@user-cc3vl2ui5r]

Grande.....Grazie 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@lauriel2276]

Any TwoSet fans here?

[@b.c.2281]

Here, had to come listen to the whole piece.

[@elizabethlee5699]

Yesss

[@zicophrenesalatius]

Yes

[@onnaleinonen5378]

No!!!

[@happynameday]

Yep!

[@drronmccoy]

O...M...G! Bravo!!

[@joshuamages5175]

Wow the so amazing

[@joeytoots]

The greatest. The only way to play it.

[@republiccooper]

Perfect.

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

wonderful, masterful flute. alison balsom does a spectacular cut on E-flat trumpet, too

[@claara7785]

Musique très relaxante

[@caththomas5152]

Applause!!!

[@nessieness5433]

Truly magnific!

[@asiastephens6480]

Nice sound on the flute

[@user-bt9fy2by9r]

very beautiful

[@laltrapartedelmondo3965]

La più bella interpretazione dopo quella in studio (RCA) di Gazzelloni... grandissimo Pahud!!!!!!

[@Echegiulyyyyyyy]

Gia

[@vkkoorchester666]

amazing.

[@RosieLee777]

This is closest to version I first heard in 1979 during The Mallens tv series, been trying to track down the piece ever since.

[@LiteratureTodayUK]

Thrilling indeed

[@user-ro9zw6kr2p]

Love from Japan.

[@joyce7802]

ARMYY

[@joyce7802]

ARMYYY

[@thethikboy]

Dynamics, phrasing, rubato - all a perfect interpretation of Debussy's languishing eroticism

[@teseotejidos]

❤ hermoso❤

[@user-fo7px4ek6d]

지렸다;;;;

[@Antzro1]

I love Debussy

[@gillesd91]

Never heard Syrinx at this level. Throughout this music, I saw the god Pan, pursuing Syrinx among reed swamps

[@CapriceBozza80]

This piece tends to sound very shrill on a flute. Pahud, however, gives it the warmth it deserves. Well done!

[@annon9368]

It was written for flute, moron.

[@mauricioduron3193]

+Annon My understanding of CapriceBozza80's comment was that interpreters of the piece less talented than M. Pahud might produce shrill sounds, not that the instrument itself is shrill. At any rate, the name-calling is unwarranted (or as it used to be described: "uncouth").

[@annon9368]

Dude...you don't understand. Moron #1 stated that a piece Debussy wrote FOR FLUTE, sounds "shrill", on... wait for it... A FLUTE! If I were name-calling, you know what I'd've called on you: Mr. Mauricio Dorón... Moron #2.

[@mauricioduron3193]

+Annon, Esq. Ah, but for the sad eloquence of the uncouth among us whose reading skills suit their illiterate purposes! FYI: the actual statement was that the "piece TENDS TO sound very shrill on a flute" NOT that the flute sounds shrill as an instrument, in and of itself.

[@rustydog1236]

It's the God Pan dying, and knows he's dying and it's the last time he will ever play the flute. Shrieking a bit is fully appropriate, under those circumstances.

[@basiccloud3491]

Playing the whole thing for my freshmen year:")

[@ellapeirce5103]

King of tapering wow😍

[@emilymoore2162]

We used this solo for a marching band show called Lure of the Sirens a couple years ago

[@TheTenthCity]

Only old people and music teachers actually watch this, and then they make their kids and students research this stuff. That is why I am here, for the glorious name "Debussy".