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Favorite?

Reflets dans L'eau (Book 1): 1 (20%)
Hommage à Rameau (Book 1): 0 (0%)
Mouvement (Book 1): 0 (0%)
Cloches à Travers les Feuilles (Book 2): 1 (20%)
Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut (book 2): 0 (0%)
Poissons d'or (Book 2): 2 (40%)
Mélancolique et Doux (Images Oubliées): 0 (0%)
Souvenir du Louvre (Images Oubliées): 0 (0%)
Quelques Aspects de Nous N'irons plus au Bois Parce Qu'il fait un Temps Insupportable (Images Oubliées): 1 (20%)

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Topic: Debussy - Images: Favorite and hardest? (Read 554 times)

liszt-and-the-galops

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Debussy - Images: Favorite and hardest?

on: August 27, 2024, 05:17:10 PM

Which piece from Debussy's Images is your favorite, and which do you believe is hardest?

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thorn

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Re: Debussy - Images: Favorite and hardest?

Reply #1 on: August 27, 2024, 09:55:09 PM

This is the first one of these threads where I've played all of the pieces so can talk from experience! The hardest for me was Mouvement because your hands are on top of one another most of the time, and to get the required effect (a whirring machine) the triplets have to be seamless with no rubato.

My favourite is Poissons d'or. It was the first impressionistic piece I heard and it's been my favourite style of music ever since. Cloches is a close second- I don't have synaesthesia but this piece makes me feel like it does exist (it's really hard to explain, no other piece gives me this feeling not even Messiaen or Scriabin)

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