This is precisely where Pahud shines. No doubt he's a great flutist all round, as there are many others, but this kind of music and solo performance allows him to show his best. Emotional, but not overdone, lots of nuances, a personnal interpretation but with lots of musicality and nothing superfluous or gratuitous.
Mariana Plesea
@Jophiel Nicholls i
Zsolt Raduska
@Angels he ALWAYS sounded like a native American pan flute. He always had a squeezes whistly ambouchure and a disgusting continuos vibrato. He never could play from the soul....
Angels
y'll talking about how Galway plays like y'll seen him play from the beginning... do keep in mind dude's old as shi now there a lot that he can no longer do now or even 7 years ago that he could say 15 or even 20 years ago...
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Pierre Turlur
Beyond. This is it. Dynamics and flow, silence and whispers. This piece gives you the scenery, the space in which music arises. Humbled. Thank you.
Pedro Koury
Pierre Turlur I've always found it very interesting – and not that obvious – how silence is as much part of music as the sound produced with instruments...!
Carline Higgs
I have listened to at least 5 different performers play this and Pahud did the absolute best.
Joan Falldine
I have never, and will never, hear this more perfectly and beautifully performed.
Willa Green
I'm really " getting into" Pahud, and I think he's so incredibly strong and the very most sophisticated flutist, not to mention that he seems very nice. Love Pahud' s emphasis on intonation. He makes a mistake here that I make--focusing on performing individual phrases rather than connecting all phrases together for hearing the effect of the whole piece. I always have to think it through more, think it through more. Pahud is great!
Very free, as if he were improvising or discovering it with the audience. Well done!
ariel frola
The Best interpretation, Congratulations Sir Emmanuel Pahud.
✨Precipitation Lane✨
I'm playing this solo at school.... how the heck am I supposed to make it sound just as beautiful?? ( ;A; )
spudbutt!
so how'd it go
Kate Park
Howd it go? (5 years late)
Michael Holly
An excellent satin bow tie does wonders for breath control.
Lily Hutchins
HOW DID IT GO?!
Satsuki Baskerville
We can't. We're mere mortals on this land. Never we'll be able to sound as the masters.
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Meyah Inti
Quien carajos le da no me gusta a este video. Ésta es la mejor versión de Syrinx. Su expresión corporal parece una coreografía. Es un performance muy coherente, gran apropiación del trasfondo de la obra, con una técnica del sonido impecable y gran elegancia y porte escénico.
Ross Nicholson
Beautiful, unique, and quite thoughtful performance! Great job! You have opened my eyes to a better way to play this piece.
Catiec
Absolutely my favourite rendition of Syrinx!
Elvina Cheah
So much control in each note. Loved it
Уилла Гриин
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo. The most authentic "French" version. I listened again and can really hear this now--the attention/devotion given in the performance. Beautiful up to the Denouëment and down to my favorite phrase at 3:14 and again at 3:18. Wonderful feeling and sonorite.
Olivia Rikki
He has such beautiful tone quality
Gennady Gefter
Best interpretation ever!!!
All others have rights to exist, but this one capturing the essence of French Impressionism.
BRAVO MAESTRO !!!
Madison Ferguson
i play flute and this piece is amazing! I LOVE IT!!!
DoctorFlute
Yet another beautiful rendition of the hauntingly beautiful piece.
Amber Ealy
I played this in Cillege for Recital Lab. Loved it!!
Blake Seitz
Syrinx was written as part of incidental music to the play Psyché by Gabriel Mourey, and was originally called "Flûte de Pan". It was given its final name in reference to the myth of the amorous pursuit of the nymph Syrinx by the god Pan, in which Pan falls in love with Syrinx, however, as Syrinx does not return the love to Pan, she turns herself into a water reed and hides in the marshes. Pan cuts the reeds to make his pipes, in turn killing his love.
Glenn Michael
so beautiful, such class and emotion..... bravo!
Andreas Mazur
What a wonderful musician he is - a real magician of colours! And the violin-like portamento in bar 19 let us flautist simply said shiver.....BRAVO!! Thank you so much Emmanuel Pahud!!
flauto67
Great Emmanuel....wonderful sound...amazing
Lisa Hakesley
One of the best interpretations I’ve heard. Exquisite n
Mátti Kovler
Beautiful sense of nuance and tastefully done.
Nottingham Music Excellence
This is pretty awesome stuff!
דבורה הורביץ
I believe that the c o n t e n t s of Syrinx could be more expressed at the p a s s a g e before the main theme is revised. however it sounds much more artistic than any other performance I have heard.
Chiollodario
It's so beautiful....amazing performance!
Christine L.
This is so haunting... Close your eyes and you're in a forest in Ancient Greece and Dionysus appears before you.
Av
@Kazuki Y I don’t think they were necessarily dispraising... I love this performance, but it’s still natural for listeners to imagine scenes following the music. Everyone is different, so they imagine different things. This doesn’t mean insulting his playing; in fact, it just shows that his playing has such variety that we can clearly imagine a story just from his music.
Kazuki Y
Please do stop dispraising his performance!!! Why do we have to imagine a forest in Ancient Greece!?!? Okay I don't care. Even with such critics like yours, his performance is supreme.
daniel chavez
I tried and couldn’t keep my eyes closed lol
Porkstar Sam Smithson
40th like
Jumperbumper
i dont have eyelids
Jen Greene
Thank you! Spectacular! Outstanding!!!!
Ernie Tollar
love all of it. the phrase leading to 3:01 had something different than most classical players would do to my ear.
DeltaRana4
Truly beautiful interpretation.
Andreas Mazur
The best rendition of this keywork in our repertoire EVER.
Sophie Günther
It seams, The flute plays by itself....amazing
Mélodie Chopin
Merci , très belle interprétation, un régal pour les amateurs
Jemjy
Beautiful! If only I could play this like him! >_<
Sissi F
Quelle merveille, décidement je ne m'en lasserai jamais, sublissime !!!!!
Jamilette Navarro
Hermoso!!! 👏👏👏👏
Corey Baer
I don't know how it's done, but it is fantastic!
Mr. Flute Guy
One of the greatest of all time!
thethikboy
Dynamics, phrasing, rubato - all a perfect interpretation of Debussy's languishing eroticism
CapriceBozza80
This piece tends to sound very shrill on a flute. Pahud, however, gives it the warmth it deserves. Well done!
GCG
This doesn't sound shrill on the flute it's in a very comfortable range the whole time, that's why they give this to high school kids.
rustydog1236
It's the God Pan dying, and knows he's dying and it's the last time he will ever play the flute. Shrieking a bit is fully appropriate, under those circumstances.
Mauricio Durón
+Annon, Esq. Ah, but for the sad eloquence of the uncouth among us whose reading skills suit their illiterate purposes! FYI: the actual statement was that the "piece TENDS TO sound very shrill on a flute" NOT that the flute sounds shrill as an instrument, in and of itself.
Mauricio Durón
+Annon My understanding of CapriceBozza80's comment was that interpreters of the piece less talented than M. Pahud might produce shrill sounds, not that the instrument itself is shrill. At any rate, the name-calling is unwarranted (or as it used to be described: "uncouth").
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Charis Mensah
Beautiful! Playing this for my grade 8
周大樹
感動 🌠🎶👍
Studio Voo!
素晴らしい！
✨Precipitation Lane✨
I'm playing this solo at school.... how the heck am I supposed to make it sound just as beautiful?? ( ;A; )
Susanne Duttlinger
practice 8h a day over 3-15 years, that will do!!! Perhaps!!!
성난곰돌이
practice again nad again! I'm also want to make beautiful sound like him.
성난곰돌이
practice again nad again! I'm also want to make beautiful like him.
MrStewbee
He takes much liberty with this piece... I enjoyed it.
Payton Banks
I love syrinx. It is my favorite flute piece (to listen to). I feel like it would be a really good piece to do yoga to
Eliezer Pennywhistler
+Payton Banks Then you'd never hear it.
Nessie Ness
Truly magnific!
Olivia Dawn
Amazing.
Bud Tristano
For those of us who still purchase hard copy, what is the best/favorite recording of Pahud?
IDEE INDIGO FLUTE
Richesse de la palette chromatique et du champ des nuances, usage raisonné et sensible du timbre du vibrato au son "blanc", liberté mais intelligence des respirations, sens du phrasé... C'est de la très grande flûte... C'est Emmanuel Pahud qui, lorsque je suis venu l'écouter à Strasbourg avait autant à donner à Schubert (Arpegionne) qu'à Debussy. Je lui vois deux "chevalières" l'accompagnant :Jasmine Choi mais surtout Marina Piccinini, l'une pour sa technique précise, l'autre pour son panache et son inspiration unique... M. Pahud, au plaisir de nous revoir.
sy_flutist
Fantastisch!!!super♡
Brian Baumgarn
wonderful, masterful flute. alison balsom does a spectacular cut on E-flat trumpet, too
L'altra parte del mondo
La più bella interpretazione dopo quella in studio (RCA) di Gazzelloni... grandissimo Pahud!!!!!!
Giulia Ginevra Paparella
Gia
Susan Shaw Flute
la perfection absolue
Ana Gator
Pahud is life though God gave him an amazing talent. AAAHHHGGGGHHHHHH HES SO GOOD
Rin Eric
Pahud is definitely tied for first place now. We are so lucky. Rampal, too!
kiriko
丁寧で過剰じゃない感じが好き。
pierre orhan
féerique, magique, exceptionnel.
Janice Epperson
This is the music I'd expect to hear upom emterimg am Egyptiam pyramid. First heard it im the early 50's whem it was the theme for the TV program "What Im the World?" Always gave me goosebumps!! (sorry for the vrokem computer keys).
py
Stunning vibrato
Joe Fowler
The greatest. The only way to play it.
BrendaR4
Bravo! Very not boring! I'm so tired of this piece, but I could listen to this performance again! ☺️
BrendaR4
@Er Ga I do not know why you would think that. I waited impatiently till I was old enough that my mom would let me hold her flute, and even did violin in school a year earlier because strings started in 4th grade at school but winds didn’t start till 5th grade. My parents never had to nag me to practice. Playing the flute is the greatest joy of my life and core to my sense of identity. I suspect God created me as a musician.
But there are flute pieces that are so famous I have heard them a million times by now, and I’ve always preferred playing the flute over listening to someone else do it. If I want to listen to music I usually choose large orchestral or large choral works. My favorite instruments to listen to are piano cello and trumpet.
Er Ga
Don't torture yourself with this music, listen to something else...You sound like your parents forced you to playing music when you were a kid!
BrendaR4
@Ever Ready no! And I also don’t like Pavane, unless I myself and playing it, and if I am having a good lungs day. 🙃
Ever Ready
Have you heard him in Pavane?
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Frank Montoya
Wow, what a good looking guy in his black tails. And he knows how to blow! After hearing this i have to agree with some other that Rampal is too rushed with this Debussy piece. Bravo Pahud!
gilles durand
Never heard Syrinx at this level. Throughout this music, I saw the god Pan, pursuing Syrinx among reed swamps
Emma Pathy
Oh how I love this piece
Asia Stephens
Nice sound on the flute
Basic Cloud
Playing the whole thing for my freshmen year:")
Grace Byrne
Fantastico. Which version of Syrinx is this? I'm going to play it for my audition.
fierywoman pacnw
It's Pahud's version... of the score that everyone plays.
TheSlimification1
This sounds great to listen to while I read the comments..
Simon Merlen
so brilliant as always ... so pefect as always ... So pahud ...
Inielboult 75018
+lejedidelingo Eh manu ce gars ose te comprarer a Galway !!! On aura tout entendu.
Cait Ford
holy shit this dude DOES Synrix
Just_Pierre
I just imagine rod serling’s voice after each note.
Petya Vasileva
Bravo!
Rog Fusionkid
Beutiful.
T R
That silence at the end--- OOOOO
Christian Hall
As all good mysterious song should be
david vincent
When you listen to Pahud, the silence that follows is still Pahud ;)
Sarah Riedel
Talia Rodriguez when I would play this I would stretch the little silences out reeeeaaaaaally long, I was playing it in a church and you could literally stand there and listen to the echoes bouncing off the walls.
Marko Debeljak
I heard some Japanese tradition stuff on flute and sound is similar to Syrinx. Not smiliar song, but style. This is mean Debussy is affected by Asian traditonal (classical) music.
Emily Moore
We used this solo for a marching band show called Lure of the Sirens a couple years ago
Cath Thomas
Applause!!!
Karl-Johan B. Nielsen
"i will pay you in stories of my abusive father, set to dissonant flute. I was seven when he first came home drunk, a child should sleep on his bed, not under it"
Rrreverenteee
Whisper talking peter 😂😂😂
Ceren Demirkul
@som Slovaak hollymolly
Walter White
@som Slovaak Nope
Moruthin
I have officially lost confidence in playing this on my piccolo :|
همام العراقي
Grande.....Grazie 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 🌹 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
EM Ke
👍 Heard him some years ago in ER , great!
Julius Cooper
Perfect.
VKKO Orchester
amazing.
A Normal Guy
Always finish on the Back, never finish on Debussy
Ella Peirce
King of tapering wow😍
Literature Today - and Yesterday...
Thrilling indeed
MsFrancescaF
Mesmerized in every fiber.
Antzro
I love Debussy
farmerbae
Bruh from memory too what a beast
Peter Brady
Very good sound , sometimes I think do I need Apple Music?
뿌뿍
지렸다;;;;
uhhhh
Man syrinx is the best.
Jane Delacour
lovely!!!
Dr. Wilhem Hal-Howard
“I was seven when he first came home drunk, a child should sleep on his bed not under it”
Matro
Coastal and superior.
Detumus
I was looking for a comet like this here
Detumus
Lmao
chayton
Family guy
chayton
family guy
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David
Do you all know what type/model flute this is? And is the score online? Thanks!
MrStewbee
At least twice that cost.
HugoBoss
Benoit Laine if it is not so importance then why he played on $15.000 flute ?
Tradarius Luckett
he plays on a 24k Haynes
Benoit Laine
+David Middleditch I don't think the flute type is of much importance. Gear is only gear, he would make a student nickel flute shine on this piece as well. For the score, google (and the Petrucci library) is your friend http://imslp.org/wiki/Syrinx_%28Debussy,_Claude%29
Benoit Laine
This is precisely where Pahud shines. No doubt he's a great flutist all round, as there are many others, but this kind of music and solo performance allows him to show his best. Emotional, but not overdone, lots of nuances, a personnal interpretation but with lots of musicality and nothing superfluous or gratuitous.
Mariana Plesea
@Jophiel Nicholls i
Zsolt Raduska
@Angels he ALWAYS sounded like a native American pan flute.
He always had a squeezes whistly ambouchure and a disgusting continuos vibrato. He never could play from the soul....
Angels
y'll talking about how Galway plays like y'll seen him play from the beginning... do keep in mind dude's old as shi now there a lot that he can no longer do now or even 7 years ago that he could say 15 or even 20 years ago...
Pierre Turlur
Beyond. This is it. Dynamics and flow, silence and whispers. This piece gives you the scenery, the space in which music arises. Humbled. Thank you.
Pedro Koury
Pierre Turlur I've always found it very interesting – and not that obvious – how silence is as much part of music as the sound produced with instruments...!
Carline Higgs
I have listened to at least 5 different performers play this and Pahud did the absolute best.
Joan Falldine
I have never, and will never, hear this more perfectly and beautifully performed.
Willa Green
I'm really " getting into" Pahud, and I think he's so incredibly strong and the very most sophisticated flutist, not to mention that he seems very nice. Love Pahud' s emphasis on intonation. He makes a mistake here that I make--focusing on performing individual phrases rather than connecting all phrases together for hearing the effect of the whole piece. I always have to think it through more, think it through more. Pahud is great!
Mark Jackson Turner
Superb intonation, phrasing, dynamics. Lyrically empowered.