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.

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!

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

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

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!

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

One of my absolute favorite classical pieces.

Very high artistry on full display here.

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

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?

Amazing music and amazing musicians! 💔😭🌸

Amazing viola player and beautiful music

One of the best recordings of this wonderful piece

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.🙏💐

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!

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)

Magic from first note to last

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

Favorite work by Debussy!

Прекрасное исполнение,хороший ансамбль и чувство композитора!

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

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.

Muy hermosa interpretación. Absolutamente mágica.

I had forgot how absolutely beautiful this was.

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.

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

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

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

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

Nous vous aimont beaucoup en Armenie! Venez encore.

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

Pahud is excelent🤗🤗🤗

unusual combination of instruments but they all sound beautiful together

Спасибо за прекрасное исполнение! Красота и магия! Чудесно!

Quelle grâce! Merci!

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!

Who said a viola can’t play beautifully

最高ですね。Sublime!

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

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

This is really amazing!

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

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

4:35 that's what heaven must sound like

Bravo

¡Sublimee! 👏👏👏👏 🎻🎼🌌🌃🎆🎉❤❤

THIS IS IT!

tres fantastique

Amazing ... ❤

just perfect

Great!

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.

Perfect

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

☘️🧡☘️

lush

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

0:03 6:57 12:51

i dettagli sono ... tutto!

"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

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

14:44 Stravinsky enters the chat

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

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

6:55

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

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.