If I Could Choose Only One Work By...DUKAS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- It Would Have To Be...Piano Sonata
Because it's the greatest French piano sonata and a masterpiece of large-scale formal thinking allied to tempestuous musical expression.
The List So Far...
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
![Paul Dukas - Variations, Interlude et Final for Piano (1899-1902) [Score-Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/AH4jNaPU-Ts/mqdefault.jpg)
hello Dave, here Gilles from France. Paul Dukas died in 1935. A perfectionist to the extreme, he had wanted to destroy some of his compositions (his opera Ariane and Bluebeard, fortunately preserved by the comic opera where it had been premiered, and his ballet La Péri, which survived only thanks to the efforts of Vincent d'Indy!). Before his death he succeeded in setting fire to the scores of works on which he was still working (and still because he was still unsatisfied): a second symphony, a symphonic poem, two ballets, an opera, a sonata for violin and piano
If I had the power to go back in time, I would land in January 1933 and, before going to deal with the case of a horrible moustache, I would go, discreetly, to Paul Dukas' Parisian apartment and, if I did not manage to photograph the scores of these works, I would steal them from him, so inconsolable is the idea of being deprived of this ocean of beauty.
Sincerely,
"La Peri" is such a gorgeous, gorgeous work.
Thanks for picking this. I really had no idea Dukas even wrote a piano sonata or if he did that it was anything special. I just listened to the recording by John Ogdon. It was amazing! I think Marc-Andre Hamelin has a recording on Hyperion, too. It sounds like the kind of work that you really need a super virtuoso or a weirdo like Ogdon to do it justice.
This a great choiche! I suppose I would have picked Ariane et Barbebleu, because “despite” many odd sides, it still is one of my favourite scores, or his Variations set, which I personally prefer to the Sonata. But your reasons are strong and convincing. Except: given it is only a handful of pieces what he left us with, I. Would really insist with your terrible devising god to spare all of his output! 🤩
I would choose Ariane et Barbe Bleu...
Magnificent opening scene...
of course the piano sonata....!...my favorite work too.... at the time i had read the book by musician and pedagogue alfred cortot, which he devoted to french piano music, where in one chapter he elaborated in depth this sonata by paul dukas, a work to which he was very attached, I don't know if he recorded it, I think not. Anyway I've always liked this work, in any case we are very far from the sorcerer's apprentice....!
I thought Dave would pick the Rameau Variations, but God I was close! I’m calling it for Durufle - it’s going to be the Missa Cum Jubilo because of how integral Gregorian chant is to Durufle’s music and the fact that it is for UNISON men’s choir and orchestra.
It is such a shame that so many truly fine composers are identified by a single work.
@@loganfruchtman953 You mean the guys that composed the Planets, the Canon, O Fortuna, ?, Adagio in G minor, and Minuet?
:^)
Have you considered doing one on Martinů? I would pick the piano quartet or Juliette
Thanks for the video, as always. Do you have a recommended recording for Dukas' piano sonata?
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@@DavesClassicalGuide Merci!!
It's hard to pass up "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," and his interestingly bipolar symphony, but I can't really disagree with your choice.