00:00 - Prelude 04:17 - Menuet 08:21 - Clair de Lune 13:09 - Passepied

I actually think orchestration is very good, very light, very elegant, very french. Rarely will you listen to such a pleasant and delicate piece of music.

Mr Debussy's work sounds as fresh today as the day he sat down and composed it. He heard things in his head that changed the world of music forever. It's utterly impossible to over state the influence and effect he's had on composers all over the world. As long as our little species is around so will the music of Debussy.

Debussy's music will quench and moisturize the dryness of the soul and evoke comfortable and nostalgic feelings and pleasure

Ideally, one would like one's orchestration to sound as if originally composed for orchestra, the piano version being an arrangement. An interesting analogy to this is Beethoven's arrangement of Piano Sonata No. 9 in E major, Op. 14, No. 1 for string quartet. Piano figuration is gone and the whole is re-imagined as if originally composed for string quartet down to changing the key to F major, a key more comfortable for string players. That show's Beethoven's mastery of tonal imagination, something for which he is not often given credit. He knew his atmospherics and instrumentation.

Orchestrating piano music is a challenge that I only realized when I was required to orchestrate "Minstrels," from Preludes, Bk 1, in my orchestration class. Unfortunately, i have yet to hear an actual orchestra play my version. It may require revision because at one point I have double basses playing harmonics! I have only a vague idea of what that passage would sound like, or if it's even playable. But I recommend orchestrating piano music as an excellent exercise in imagining tonal color!

Pleasantness of Debussy’s music is an order of magnitude awsome

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15:28 is a wonderful transcirption.

is this his drivers license photo?

The passidpied or gigue sounds like Tchaikovsky Copeland or even a John Williams temp track at times

Andre Caplet's orchestration of Clair de lune is justly famous on its own. I don't know if he did any of the others. Caplet is still not sufficiently recognized as an outstanding composer. Pianists could benefit from listening to his Clair de lune orchestration -- not to imitate it but for ideas on colour, phrasing and nuance.

Why do i feel the this orchestral version for the prelude sounds so funny? It feels like comic. Anyone else feel the same way?

Hearing it with an orchestra, I can hear more clearly what he intended.

C'est moi.

why is there a Bb on the 2nd beat of measure 2? it stuck out to me as a really wrong note (the piano score has an A natural.) and it's repeated every time this motif repeats. are there multiple editions of the Suite?