Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L. 86), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, It was first performed in Paris on 22 December 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret.[1][2] Debussy's work later provided the basis for the ballet Afternoon of a Faun choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky and a later version by Jerome Robbins. The composition was inspired by the poem L'après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. It is one of Debussy's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of music; Pierre Boulez considered the score to be the beginning of modern music, observing that "the flute of the faun brought new breath to the art of music."[3] About his composition Debussy wrote: The music of this prelude is a very free illustration of Mallarmé's beautiful poem. By no means does it claim to be a synthesis of it. Rather there is a succession of scenes through which pass the desires and dreams of the faun in the heat of the afternoon. Then, tired of pursuing the timorous flight of nymphs and naiads, he succumbs to intoxicating sleep, in which he can finally realize his dreams of possession in universal Nature.[4] Paul Valéry reported that Mallarmé himself was unhappy with his poem being used as the basis for music: "He believed that his own music was sufficient, and that even with the best intentions in the world, it was a veritable crime as far as poetry was concerned to juxtapose poetry and music, even if it were the finest music there is."[5] However, when Debussy invited Mallarmé to attend the premiere performance, Mallarmé wrote to Debussy afterwards: "I have just come out of the concert, deeply moved. The marvel! Your illustration of the Afternoon of a Faun, which presents a dissonance with my text only by going much further, really, into nostalgia and into light, with finesse, with sensuality, with richness. I press your hand admiringly, Debussy. Yours, Mallarmé."[6][7]
So... the great music won over the author of the poem! As it should! Anyone who does not, in their mind's eye, get a visual of a faun with it's jerky movements in the forest is missing something. It is perhaps one of the best "tone poems". A tone poem attempts to evoke in the listener the 'essence' of an actual thing in real life. It's as if the orchestra or an instrument was a paintbrush and the notes were colors. A funny story is that many people think that Copeland's famous Appalachian Spring is a tone poem about spring in Appalachian mountains. If I recall, Copeland said that he named it that AFTER he had written it for a ballet. Copeland said he was amused one day when a woman told him that she could see the mountains in his music.
Bill Tomic Bill Tomic beautifully orchestrated and full of eery yet vibrant tone color. It does bring to mind movement in music and awakens the imagination with visions of stories in a forest. One may imagine the story of a faun who is sleeping and dreaming and comes upon a terrorizing event, a crisis, perhaps the unannounced presence of a bear or tiger that causes the faun to attempt to escape. There are romantic tones within the music that create stories of love or wonder, innocence. It is a intricate and beautiful piece of music that awakens the senses.
Ravel was once asked (no doubt somewhat whimsically) what music he would like to be played at his funeral, and much to his companion's surprise, he answered "Prelude L'apres-midi d'un faune." And then he added, "because, you know, it is the only fully perfect piece of music ever written."
Did he really say that? That's what most composers think of themselves but won't admit that's what they're thinking! But, hey, I'm a composer and I've written some perfect...er... cool things!
It's not often that I see all three of my oboe teachers together in a live performance. Ralph Gomberg, John Holmes and Laurence Thorstenberg. John Holmes 1964-1967, Ralph Gomberg 1968-1972, Larry Thorstenberg (English Horn) 1974-1976. RIP my favorite oboists and friends. I miss all of you. You were the best of the best.
I adore Debussy's works--they make my imagination do such wonderful things when I listen. I also love the way Bernstein conducts. He has such a quiet, powerful, gentleness and grace when he leads an orchestra.
This is a wonderful interpretation of a magical piece. As I listened today, just at rehearsal 10 in the Kalmus score, two deer came running past my window, stopped just beyond, and lingered until rehearsal 12, just before the end, as if right on cue. An added gift.
Some people grip you because of their amazing gifts. Leonard Bernstein is one of those rare people who actually was disciplined and focused enough to develop his gifts. I would have loved to have known his parents and had been able to see what his environment was like to have made this genius who makes so many hearts sing. It is my "Unanswered Question".
-- I would have loved to have known his parents and had been able to see what his environment -- His parents went out of their way to avoid him becoming a musician…
Those smiles he makes from time to time are absolutely adorable. Like if he was saying to each musician "yeah, you're doing it right, keep going, I love it"
This is a breathtakingly beautiful performance by Bernstein and the Boston Symphony. I have listened to this piece innumerable times over the last fifty years, as played by all the great and not-so-great conductors and orchestras. But now I have happened upon a performance that surpasses all others in being a perfect realization of the inexpressible beauties of this "perfect piece," as Ravel termed it, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. You owe it to yourself to listen ...
the first time I remember experiencing Debussy,I was a small child. My mother claims that she played Debussy,Ravel,Tsaikovsky,and other classical pieces,along with the contemporary jazz,while I was still in her womb..this was in the early 60'S. I have grown to appreciate these classical works very much. just recently,I was at the area laundromat,and had in my earbuds,listening to Debussy'S Prelude of the afternoon of a faun..as you watch people,with their children,going about business,it really sheds a different light,on people,life,and just how precious it all is!
I first heard Debussy in the 80s, I was about 8 or 10. But even for a poor, uneducated 8 year old, living in the depressive east-european communist ghetto of that time, I was struck by the beauty and eeriness of his music. It felt like flying through the trees' branches, on a lazy sunny summer afternoon.
I first heard this piece when I was about the same age as you were and it has haunted me ever since. My musical horizons have greatly expanded since then but I still go back to this piece as one of the golden classics that started me on the journey of my love for great classical music.
This composition is in my top five of favorites in all of classical music, and believe me there much classical that I simply adore. Debussy was a true artist and genius.
Yes, and the great thing, I think, is that he willingly risked abject failure with practically everything he wrote. It is partly this risk that makes his music so vital and necessary.
Listening to this in pure darkness in bed, it evokes an eerie, almost psychedelic, series of watercolor images depicting archetypal Disney-like nature scenes. Mind shattering!
I think this is the best recording of this piece. What I love most about the orchestra is that in the climax at 6:07 the winds sound like lights turning on and off, not like other versions where they sound like the peep of a car horn xd.
I love watching Bernstein conduct and even just talk. It's like he's playing the very air around him, and when the music he's coaxing out of these musicians is Debussy, that makes it even better.
One of the master conductors lets this gorgeous Debussy peace breathe. It's not rushed in certain parts like I have heard other arrangements. Flows beautifully.
I simply can not repress my imagination whenever I listen to this magnificent piece... How dreamy, how elegant, how beautifully written. Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestra really did nail it.
My favorite piece of music full stop. I dare not try put into words what this piece means to me as my poor writing would put it to shame. But tears are streaming down my face as I listen and watch my daughter fast asleep on the couch hoping that she also one day can experience this amazing piece
Many musicologists would say that this piece of music was just as revolutionary as Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." It preceded that other masterpiece by some 19 years. (1894 and 1913) // I first heard it on our home stereo and fell in love with it as a 10-year-old. Much later in life I came to better understand just how wonderfully inventive it was. Recurring tools in Debussy's compositional arsenal make appearances in this piece: extended whole-tone scale runs, harmonic fluidity without lengthy modulations between central keys, and tritones in both melody and harmony. Debussy used sophisticated voicings and orchestration, allowing the main melodic cell to move from solo flute to oboe, back to solo flute, then to two unison flutes (yielding a completely different atmosphere to the melody), then to clarinet, and so on. Even the accompaniment explores alternate voicings: the flute duo's crescendo during their melodic cells accompany strings with violas
BERNSTEIN!!! MY MAN! This guy's a complete genius, I love it. Also the Boston Symphony Orchestra rocks this piece, I prefer the slower tempo he takes. Also I don't know if I've ever seen an orchestral flautist hold the flute at a 40-45 degree angle like that before! Crazy, but her breath pressure is amazing, so it doesn't really matter. But yeah, those are my comments. I love Debussy so much....
Right on Bro. To everything you said. Especially the genius part. It's incredible Doriot Antony Dwyer on flute. I have been completely mad over her for decades. Just listen to the Deutsche Grammaphon LP of her playing the Debussy, '"Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp." It is the best version I've heard. There have been a few other different- angle holding players as well. Peace.
Jim Griffin She is fantastic. I've heard a lot of flute players, but for some reason her playing just gets to me. I'm just sad I didn't discover her earlier. As a flutist myself, I have been trying to emulate her playing though it's just a poor imatation. So jealous of her breath control. FWIW Bernstein once called her a genius, and he wasn't wrong
From what I understand the angling of the flute is to darken the timbre in a way. The flute is like an "alto" because it's a little longer and has a little bit larger circumference
I love this song a lot, the fact that every phrase leads to each other so eloquently always building up to a resolution that never comes. Each voice getting a chance to play and there being no one phrase that leads out entirely. The end does indeed leave us at total ambiguity.
Laughing and smiling all throughout with the composer and especially at the start of the theme at 7:50. A marvel this music exists. all is all thank all the tones
My God. This piece, together with Isolde's Liebestod by Wagner is the most love-yearning music ever written. It just drives your tears out. Nothing to do about it.
Lorsqu'on a demandé à Maurice Ravel quelle pièce il souhaiterait que soit jouée à ses funérailles, il a répondu "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune". Toute sa vie, Ravel aura été un fervent admirateur de Debussy.
Debussy achieves a miracle for an atheist, a real Upper state of mind, meanwhile Bernstein get the heaven on earth , his face tells us everything, his feeling it's human but the expression it's otherworldly, his tears at the ending, astonishing🥺
Simply isn't vocabulary, in any language, profound enough to adequately express the way this piece catches hold of me; I've heard it a hundred times or more, beauty and perplexity still captivate and astound me.
This piece by Debussy it’s odd. It’s on a different class than any other work I’ve ever heard. It makes you want to punch a wall not because it’s intense because it’s just too damn perfect. All the emotions that are portrayed through this song it’s just amazing. Unlike Shostakovich 5 or Tchaikovsky’s 4th those make you wanna go punch a wall because it’s intense and dramatic. This is just beyond words. It sparks emotions that I didn’t know I had. I want to cry jump for joy and kick down the a door all at the same time. No word in the English language would describe this piece as well as perfect
Le son est très bas que c'est t'il passé merci , j'adore Bernstein il conduit les musiciens avec une belle sensualité qui donne à la musique surtout celle-ci une trajectoire magnifique merci pour ce beau moment tank you for sharing this beautiful moment with him . Et merci à UA-cam
Ce Prélude dirigé par Celibidache est un moment magique et divin Dirigé par ce Leonard Bernstein ce n'est plus grand chose ! mais comment les gens peuvent ils ne pas entendre ?
Actually the engine starts from 5:42 I always close my eyes to get ready to be catapulted into my dreams, or rather my different reality. A masterpiece - I am very thankful that compositions like these are preserved and performed all over the world.
The young lady playing the flute we know this piece because of you. I give much props to the soloist and I'm Leonard Bernstein fan as well. The soloist will go unrecognized, I would like to know who she is because that solo part is the only way I recognize this song. I mean how many animated films have I heard this piece and never knew it was this talented being performing it? She needs recognition
@@zakiahart3919 not only was she the principal flute of the Boston symphony, she was also the first female principal player (besides a harpist) in an American orchestra! She was my professor's professor!
Watch Bernsteins lecture on Debussey's afternoon of a fawn it helped me understand why the music sounds so amazing. There is a technical reason underlying the beauty of the peace.
I was doing research on my Anthony ancestors on Ancestry.ca and someone told me about the huge Anthony PDF document of a book. In it at the back is a newspaper clipping of Doriot. My grandfather is mentioned there as well. I am excited to have Doriot in my family tree.
I'm always thinking and thinking I'm always overwhelmed by the thing called the future I can't think of both else some people say live in the present. I live the past and maybe that's probably y I'm in love with this now my mind went blank as soon as I heard the flute and I started to cry for the first time in three years I let go of the thoughts that torment me. I may not know anything about vibrados or flute position but I do know what I felt and that to me is music.
I ask myself why I've never seen this before. Bernstein and Debussy. Under a spell I am. This juxtaposition is absolutely effen BRILLIANT in every way. Visual/Audio Nirvana. Ode to Nature, Fauna and Flora.
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L. 86), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, It was first performed in Paris on 22 December 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret.[1][2]
Debussy's work later provided the basis for the ballet Afternoon of a Faun choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky and a later version by Jerome Robbins.
The composition was inspired by the poem L'après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. It is one of Debussy's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of music; Pierre Boulez considered the score to be the beginning of modern music, observing that "the flute of the faun brought new breath to the art of music."[3]
About his composition Debussy wrote:
The music of this prelude is a very free illustration of Mallarmé's beautiful poem. By no means does it claim to be a synthesis of it. Rather there is a succession of scenes through which pass the desires and dreams of the faun in the heat of the afternoon. Then, tired of pursuing the timorous flight of nymphs and naiads, he succumbs to intoxicating sleep, in which he can finally realize his dreams of possession in universal Nature.[4]
Paul Valéry reported that Mallarmé himself was unhappy with his poem being used as the basis for music: "He believed that his own music was sufficient, and that even with the best intentions in the world, it was a veritable crime as far as poetry was concerned to juxtapose poetry and music, even if it were the finest music there is."[5] However, when Debussy invited Mallarmé to attend the premiere performance, Mallarmé wrote to Debussy afterwards: "I have just come out of the concert, deeply moved. The marvel! Your illustration of the Afternoon of a Faun, which presents a dissonance with my text only by going much further, really, into nostalgia and into light, with finesse, with sensuality, with richness. I press your hand admiringly, Debussy. Yours, Mallarmé."[6][7]
Bill Tomic Bill Tomic thanks!!!!!
Bill Tomic Bill Tomic après-midi means here the old age. If you don't know the meaning all your interpretation is not well.
So... the great music won over the author of the poem! As it should! Anyone who does not, in their mind's eye, get a visual of a faun with it's jerky movements in the forest is missing something. It is perhaps one of the best "tone poems". A tone poem attempts to evoke in the listener the 'essence' of an actual thing in real life. It's as if the orchestra or an instrument was a paintbrush and the notes were colors.
A funny story is that many people think that Copeland's famous Appalachian Spring is a tone poem about spring in Appalachian mountains. If I recall, Copeland said that he named it that AFTER he had written it for a ballet. Copeland said he was amused one day when a woman told him that she could see the mountains in his music.
wow you know how to copy and paste!! good job!
Bill Tomic Bill Tomic beautifully orchestrated and full of eery yet vibrant tone color. It does bring to mind movement in music and awakens the imagination with visions of stories in a forest. One may imagine the story of a faun who is sleeping and dreaming and comes upon a terrorizing event, a crisis, perhaps the unannounced presence of a bear or tiger that causes the faun to attempt to escape. There are romantic tones within the music that create stories of love or wonder, innocence. It is a intricate and beautiful piece of music that awakens the senses.
Ravel was once asked (no doubt somewhat whimsically) what music he would like to be played at his funeral, and much to his companion's surprise, he answered "Prelude L'apres-midi d'un faune." And then he added, "because, you know, it is the only fully perfect piece of music ever written."
Did he really say that? That's what most composers think of themselves but won't admit that's what they're thinking!
But, hey, I'm a composer and I've written some perfect...er... cool things!
Ravel did not compose it
@@gillesbrocard6183 Debussy
@@The22on Yes, he DID said that! Such a big respect from, in a certain point of view, a composer a bit in competition with Claude Debussy...
@@salvorizzo8671 I think this piece inspired him on his introduction et allegro. An incredibly beautiful piece as well.
When I hear Debussy's music it makes me want to run through the forest sprinkling fairy dust and glitter.
…riding a unicorn…
Your a wizard hairy
I know what u mean. It's like a heavenly ...ethereal place. It relaxes me and clears ny mind!!!
I also picture sayters
(sp?) And fairies and animals in a dark cool quiet forest making mischief in the middle hrs of the night.
I love it! I'll join you!
It's not often that I see all three of my oboe teachers together in a live performance. Ralph Gomberg, John Holmes and Laurence Thorstenberg. John Holmes 1964-1967, Ralph Gomberg 1968-1972, Larry Thorstenberg (English Horn) 1974-1976. RIP my favorite oboists and friends. I miss all of you. You were the best of the best.
Wow 😮
Yes, I say like Slomo: wow!
this piece changed my life forever and how I will forever think of music. This is the first time I really "heard" music
Debussy est le plus grand compositeur de tous les temps
@@stephane9261 agree
There were a few of those pieces in these lectures for me.
4:57-6:57 is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard. Also love the shot of Bernstein swaying in unison with the violins at 6:30.
It's obvious Bernstein loves this composition -- he's so gleefully animated - swaying & smiling..
French music is the most beautiful, just listen to this, Ondine or the sonatine by Ravel, Franck's violin sonata, Fauré's melodies...
@@TheJcfclark i mean who doesnt love this composition. Id be moving the way he was too lol
@@TheJcfclark Bernstein was a Ham, which is not really kosher in the world of serious music. He would have positively adored Yuja Wang's stage act.
The passage at 6:03 is heart-stopping GORGEOUS!
Absolutely
@@thiagomartins5838 ? Kkkk
@@thiagomartins5838 kkkkk
Agreed!
I adore Debussy's works--they make my imagination do such wonderful things when I listen. I also love the way Bernstein conducts. He has such a quiet, powerful, gentleness and grace when he leads an orchestra.
Masterpiece, master composer and master conductor here. Undescriptible.
This is a wonderful interpretation of a magical piece. As I listened today, just at rehearsal 10 in the Kalmus score, two deer came running past my window, stopped just beyond, and lingered until rehearsal 12, just before the end, as if right on cue. An added gift.
in my opinion the best interpretation of this piece.
Some people grip you because of their amazing gifts. Leonard Bernstein is one of those rare people who actually was disciplined and focused enough to develop his gifts. I would have loved to have known his parents and had been able to see what his environment was like to have made this genius who makes so many hearts sing. It is my "Unanswered Question".
-- I would have loved to have known his parents and had been able to see what his environment --
His parents went out of their way to avoid him becoming a musician…
This is the music that needs to broadcast into space.To tell the other possible sentient beings that we exist.
Those smiles he makes from time to time are absolutely adorable. Like if he was saying to each musician "yeah, you're doing it right, keep going, I love it"
This is a breathtakingly beautiful performance by Bernstein and the Boston Symphony. I have listened to this piece innumerable times over the last fifty years, as played by all the great and not-so-great conductors and orchestras. But now I have happened upon a performance that surpasses all others in being a perfect realization of the inexpressible beauties of this "perfect piece," as Ravel termed it, Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. You owe it to yourself to listen ...
the first time I remember experiencing Debussy,I was a small child. My mother claims that she played Debussy,Ravel,Tsaikovsky,and other classical pieces,along with the contemporary jazz,while I was still in her womb..this was in the early 60'S. I have grown to appreciate these classical works very much. just recently,I was at the area laundromat,and had in my earbuds,listening to Debussy'S Prelude of the afternoon of a faun..as you watch people,with their children,going about business,it really sheds a different light,on people,life,and just how precious it all is!
I first heard Debussy in the 80s, I was about 8 or 10. But even for a poor, uneducated 8 year old, living in the depressive east-european communist ghetto of that time, I was struck by the beauty and eeriness of his music.
It felt like flying through the trees' branches, on a lazy sunny summer afternoon.
This is almost exact to the impression I got from this peice.
I would so love to hear more about you
Ciprian Hanga Somehow I always pictured a nocturnal scene , if anything.
Xuan' Tios With respect, would love to hear your stories!
I first heard this piece when I was about the same age as you were and it has haunted me ever since. My musical horizons have greatly expanded since then but I still go back to this piece as one of the golden classics that started me on the journey of my love for great classical music.
6:00 and onward is just magic, especially 6:39 - 7:00, it actually brings me to tears, which a very few pieces do. Thank you Debussy!
This composition is in my top five of favorites in all of classical music, and believe me there much classical that I simply adore. Debussy was a true artist and genius.
Yes, and the great thing, I think, is that he willingly risked abject failure with practically everything he wrote. It is partly this risk that makes his music so vital and necessary.
Listening to this in pure darkness in bed, it evokes an eerie, almost psychedelic, series of watercolor images depicting archetypal Disney-like nature scenes. Mind shattering!
I'm on board with that. A lot of impressionistic music evokes technicolor/watercolor Fantasia-esque imagery.
Jo Do my thoughts exactly. fall asleep to it often.
I hate such stereotypes to analyze music
@@fernandoa.5089 Bravo. Yes! Pop culture inspired esthetic anemia.
I see the jungle book
Un palais de cristal sonore...tout en transparence. Merci infiniment. ❤
Hearing this piece is like getting lost in the the most beautiful dream...one of which I didn't want to wake up from.
I think this is the best recording of this piece. What I love most about the orchestra is that in the climax at 6:07 the winds sound like lights turning on and off, not like other versions where they sound like the peep of a car horn xd.
Brilliant!
6:00-6:40 is absolutely blissful. It's the only music that can bring me to tears.
I can’t stop listening to this…
I love watching Bernstein conduct and even just talk. It's like he's playing the very air around him, and when the music he's coaxing out of these musicians is Debussy, that makes it even better.
One of the master conductors lets this gorgeous Debussy peace breathe. It's not rushed in certain parts like I have heard other arrangements. Flows beautifully.
I simply can not repress my imagination whenever I listen to this magnificent piece...
How dreamy, how elegant, how beautifully written.
Leonard Bernstein and the Orchestra really did nail it.
May this legend, Mr. Leonard Bernstein, rest in peace. I give my condolences to his surviving family.
her breath control is unbelievable!
L.Bernstein`s interpitation is very lovely. This piece is one I can listen to at least once a day.
My favorite piece of music full stop.
I dare not try put into words what this piece means to me as my poor writing would put it to shame.
But tears are streaming down my face as I listen and watch my daughter fast asleep on the couch hoping that she also one day can experience this amazing piece
Many musicologists would say that this piece of music was just as revolutionary as Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." It preceded that other masterpiece by some 19 years. (1894 and 1913) // I first heard it on our home stereo and fell in love with it as a 10-year-old. Much later in life I came to better understand just how wonderfully inventive it was. Recurring tools in Debussy's compositional arsenal make appearances in this piece: extended whole-tone scale runs, harmonic fluidity without lengthy modulations between central keys, and tritones in both melody and harmony. Debussy used sophisticated voicings and orchestration, allowing the main melodic cell to move from solo flute to oboe, back to solo flute, then to two unison flutes (yielding a completely different atmosphere to the melody), then to clarinet, and so on. Even the accompaniment explores alternate voicings: the flute duo's crescendo during their melodic cells accompany strings with violas
Debussy and Bernstein.... Bravo!
BERNSTEIN!!! MY MAN! This guy's a complete genius, I love it. Also the Boston Symphony Orchestra rocks this piece, I prefer the slower tempo he takes. Also I don't know if I've ever seen an orchestral flautist hold the flute at a 40-45 degree angle like that before! Crazy, but her breath pressure is amazing, so it doesn't really matter. But yeah, those are my comments. I love Debussy so much....
Right on Bro. To everything you said. Especially the genius part. It's incredible Doriot Antony Dwyer on flute. I have been completely mad over her for decades. Just listen to the Deutsche Grammaphon LP of her playing the Debussy, '"Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp." It is the best version I've heard. There have been a few other different- angle holding players as well. Peace.
Jim Griffin She is fantastic. I've heard a lot of flute players, but for some reason her playing just gets to me. I'm just sad I didn't discover her earlier. As a flutist myself, I have been trying to emulate her playing though it's just a poor imatation. So jealous of her breath control. FWIW Bernstein once called her a genius, and he wasn't wrong
I guess you really need a nice volume and control of air in your lungs
From what I understand the angling of the flute is to darken the timbre in a way. The flute is like an "alto" because it's a little longer and has a little bit larger circumference
I have never heard that before but it's very interesting
Absolutely precious and timeless music, brilliantly conducted
Great music,beautifully played.... right on Lennie ! MW
So wonderful. Leonard Bernstein was a genius and a blessing for our culture.
Goosebump machine
Thanks for posting this. Bernstein and Debussy -- a superb cocktail of sound!
I love this song a lot, the fact that every phrase leads to each other so eloquently always building up to a resolution that never comes. Each voice getting a chance to play and there being no one phrase that leads out entirely. The end does indeed leave us at total ambiguity.
yah the song never sets,,,
I think Bernstein is actually crying here, I think I see tears on his cheek at the end. Anyways, nice to know I wasn't the only one haha.
Definitely not stuffy about music!
At the end, Bernstein's like, "Yes. We did something great here."
this is wonderful... thanks for posting it... in a few days we shall celebrate Leonard Bernstein's centennial... what a gift he was to us all
Debussy is one of my favorite composers. I especially love his 'Clair de Lune' (Moonlight).
Yes. ❤
Laughing and smiling all throughout with the composer and especially at the start of the theme at 7:50. A marvel this music exists. all is all thank all the tones
Merveilleux, tant dans l'interprétation que dans la superbe direction de Maestro Bernstein 🌼☀️🌿✨
Une des plus belles oeuvres de Debussy. A écouter et ré-écouter !
Divine playing from Bernstein. Marvelous !!!!
My God. This piece, together with Isolde's Liebestod by Wagner is the most love-yearning music ever written. It just drives your tears out. Nothing to do about it.
SIGH. A true philosopher of music. Bernstein got us to think and hear music like never before. No one's yet stepped up to replace him.
Lorsqu'on a demandé à Maurice Ravel quelle pièce il souhaiterait que soit jouée à ses funérailles, il a répondu "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune". Toute sa vie, Ravel aura été un fervent admirateur de Debussy.
Doriot was an exceedingly dependable symphony musician. Trend-setting female professional musician! Love Lenny. Miss him.
Lovely ... beyond words!
Where did my anxieties go ?
Debussy achieves a miracle for an atheist, a real Upper state of mind, meanwhile Bernstein get the heaven on earth , his face tells us everything, his feeling it's human but the expression it's otherworldly, his tears at the ending, astonishing🥺
"Egy Faun délutánja" Istenem! Milyen gyönyörű! Azt hiszem ez most minden más hangnál szívemhez szólóbb. Köszönöm.
Simply isn't vocabulary, in any language, profound enough to adequately express the way this piece catches hold of me; I've heard it a hundred times or more, beauty and perplexity still captivate and astound me.
that's the beauty of music
+Will Gardner it expresses the inexpressible
This piece by Debussy it’s odd. It’s on a different class than any other work I’ve ever heard. It makes you want to punch a wall not because it’s intense because it’s just too damn perfect. All the emotions that are portrayed through this song it’s just amazing. Unlike Shostakovich 5 or Tchaikovsky’s 4th those make you wanna go punch a wall because it’s intense and dramatic. This is just beyond words. It sparks emotions that I didn’t know I had. I want to cry jump for joy and kick down the a door all at the same time. No word in the English language would describe this piece as well as perfect
Chopin and Claude invented modern music. Thank you Overlords.
So very lovely takes me into the forest ..I can actuallly picture the fawn..
... and I thought that I was the only one?
Thank you.
It has been a favorite of mine for years . Some parts .. especially the ending ,even makes me teary.
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No it is exquisite!! You're certainly not the only one .. thiere are alot out there like us !
It is a faun. Not a fawn.
CORRECT! In English is FAUN. Roman mythology describes a FAUN as half human and half goat. Similar to but gentler than a SATYR.
Le son est très bas que c'est t'il passé merci , j'adore Bernstein il conduit les musiciens avec une belle sensualité qui donne à la musique surtout celle-ci une trajectoire magnifique merci pour ce beau moment tank you for sharing this beautiful moment with him . Et merci à UA-cam
Amazing Concert!!! Thank you so much for posting it .
6:20 and on....goosebumps.
Absolutely wonderful, sensitive performance!!!
love the melody at 8:55, reminds me of my childhood, when i first heard it in Disney's The Old Mill:))
Many tanks for sharing this great musician was Bernstein also a very good pianist merci beaucoup
I just love the talent and dedication they have to this
6:29, look how he beautifully moves with the Orchestra.
So amazingly beautiful.
The only piece of any kind of music that genuinely makes me cry.
Ce Prélude dirigé par Celibidache est un moment magique et divin
Dirigé par ce Leonard Bernstein ce n'est plus grand chose ! mais comment les gens peuvent ils ne pas entendre ?
Amazing performance ♥ ♥
this is transcendence!
I am addicted to this!!!
Omg so beautiful and peaceful
6:00-6:45 transported to another world...
power of music
take shrooms pussies...
Yes (to Spodgy)
Actually the engine starts from 5:42
I always close my eyes to get ready to be catapulted into my dreams, or rather my different reality.
A masterpiece - I am very thankful that compositions like these are preserved and performed all over the world.
Majin Fredo 7
Einer der schönsten Musikstücke die jemals komponiert wurden
Браво! Надзвичайно чудова музика Клода Дебюссі і філігранне виконання! 👏👏👏
Fantastic upload... love being able to see my idol, Anthony Doriot Dwyer on flute... many thanks for posting this nectar.....
So refreshing to see comments from young folks! Nice to know that some of the Mills and Gen Z are listening to this kind of music.
From 2022, I am currently age 16. This is probably one of my favorite pieces of music of all time, and definitely my favorite classical piece.
Preludij k Favnovemu popoldnevu. Claude Debussy. Umirjena, meditativna glasba. Simfonična pesnitev. Impresionizem. Programska glasba, prehajanje iz lestvice v lestvico, ni občutka tonalnosti (izgublja občutek dura in mola), bogate zvočne barve harmonije, zabrisane melodične linije, paralelno nizanje akordov. Harmonija, ritem, zvočna barva.
Ravel put it right, this is THE piece, the only perfect piece.
A Masterpiece.
That is such a beautiful piece of music ...
Superb. Asolutely superb playing
Totally outstanding. Thanks.
This is simply ingenious work!!!
Why do 100 individuals dislike either this performance or composition???
The young lady playing the flute we know this piece because of you. I give much props to the soloist and I'm Leonard Bernstein fan as well.
The soloist will go unrecognized, I would like to know who she is because that solo part is the only way I recognize this song. I mean how many animated films have I heard this piece and never knew it was this talented being performing it? She needs recognition
Her name is Doriot Anthony Dwyer. She was principal flute of the Boston Symphony for 38 years
@@Titanandenceladus wow thank you!
@@zakiahart3919 not only was she the principal flute of the Boston symphony, she was also the first female principal player (besides a harpist) in an American orchestra! She was my professor's professor!
Did Bernstein ever record anything that sounded bad? I'm repeatedly astounded by his artistry and taste.
My brother, we had good times together.
Merci à Claude Debussy d'avoir laissé à l'humanité un tel chef d'oeuvre musical!
Watch Bernsteins lecture on Debussey's afternoon of a fawn it helped me understand why the music sounds so amazing. There is a technical reason underlying the beauty of the peace.
I was doing research on my Anthony ancestors on Ancestry.ca and someone told me about the huge Anthony PDF document of a book. In it at the back is a newspaper clipping of Doriot. My grandfather is mentioned there as well. I am excited to have Doriot in my family tree.
I'm always thinking and thinking I'm always overwhelmed by the thing called the future I can't think of both else some people say live in the present. I live the past and maybe that's probably y I'm in love with this now my mind went blank as soon as I heard the flute and I started to cry for the first time in three years I let go of the thoughts that torment me. I may not know anything about vibrados or flute position but I do know what I felt and that to me is music.
danny lucio im 2 years late but this song is pure emotion i know how you feel
I ask myself why I've never seen this before. Bernstein and Debussy. Under a spell I am. This juxtaposition is absolutely effen BRILLIANT in every way. Visual/Audio Nirvana. Ode to Nature, Fauna and Flora.
Gorgeous!!!
Glorious!!! pure majesty
music of the heart, dreams, spirits, and the ancestors, one, forever more...........
RIP Doriot Anthony Dwyer 1922-2020
Hard to believe she's gone...she was my Idol for decades...... her flute music is out there in the universe still healing people.
Rest In Peace
The thing is, she tended to flout her flootism. Was it a good look? Were the optics politically correct? You tell me. I.. have.. no.. Idea.
Fantastic music!!!
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I used this music as theme music for a classical music show I hosted while serving in the Peace Corps I Cameroon W. Africa.
Nothing screams mystery as much as this piece itself