Debussy's Greatest Hits | Claude Debussy, Michael Tilson Thomas, ...

Debussy's Greatest Hits | Claude Debussy, Michael Tilson Thomas, ... | Soothing

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Ludwig van Beethoven Debussy's Greatest...

	Debussy's Greatest Hits Claude Debussy, Michael Tilson Thomas, ... Sony, 1994 average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

wonderful relaxer

This is a great CD to listen to after a stressfull day at work. Debussy was an impressionist musician, or that's what they called him during his life. Most people don't know that there were impressionists that were not painters, so this classical musician is a breath of fresh air even for those that do not like classical music.

Soothing

I listen to this in the car after a really lousy day and it all gets a little better. I know next to nothing about about classical music and can not correctly pronouce his name but I do like his work.

Dreaming with Debussy

My mother was a classically trained musician. She was not only a highly accomplished violinist, but she was also an incredible pianist. When she was still in her earthly form, our house was always filled with music. If it wasn't her playing the violin or the piano, then we always had something on the Hi-Fi...hee hee...Hi-Fi...that sounded so high tech back then, now it just sounds like something you might get doing something unprotected...but anyway, I grew up around all kinds of music. We could be listening to Chopin one minute and the next, Frank Zappa and it's this kind of upbringing that made the weirdo...I mean, ecclectic individualization of Life I am today.

So, even though I continue to have varied tastes in music, I do have my favorites and one of them is dear 'ol Claude Debussy. My mother was a Pisces and I, being born exactly two weeks after her birthday, am also a Pisces and Pisceans, being rather dreamy, moody, sensitive, and open are "suckers" for any kind of music that touches the emotions because most
water signs live by their emotions rather than by their intellect. I happen to be a double Pisces which only means that I am jacked up x 2. Not really, but I am a very emotional person. I have, however, learned to use my sensitivity rather than having my sensitivity using me which only tends to make one fragile.

So, what the heck does all this have to do with this particular collection of music?

Plenty.

This music when played during periods of relaxation and meditation can open you up to the deeper levels of life that are always just right beneath the surface. So many of us are so distracted by outer appearances and conditions that we fail to see that all our outer life really is, is just a symbol...a metaphor...for what is going on inwardly. If your life is confusing, upsetting, chaotic it could be that your inner life is also confused, upset, and full of chaos.

Or maybe I'm just talking out my aspirations.

I invite you to wake up an hour early and listen to this CD while doing some light stretches, a few minutes of some just breathing deeply and slowly, and maybe even 15 minutes of so of just writing or doodling and don't let this music just be "white noise"...hey, I think I just created a name for my friend's rap band...but take this music deep into your soul...breathe it in...breathe it out...for just one hour "be" the music.

I think that Debussy was a genius. He didn't just compose music, music composed him. If you listen very, very carefully you will be able to tell that Debussy listened very closely to his soul. It was as if he asked a Heavenly Council for permission to use music that is clearly not of this world. Yes, his music is Impressionist, but it is also Expressionist; an expression of Pure Love, Pure Light, Pure Life the realms from which all things seen as well as unseen come forth from. Listen to Reverie, La Mer (all three portions), or, of course, Claire de Lune and you will quickly realize that this "mere mortal" tapped the eternal and the earthreal into finite compositions that transcend mere music and puts it in a completely different category.

So, after all this why am I giving this CD four stars...I have a real challenge with the name of the CD, Debussy's Greatest Hits. For God's sakes, this is Debussy, it's not Britney Spears or Barry Manillow. Debussy didn't create "hits", he created something that surpasses such a shallow judgment. His music is truly an observation of the Divine coming into form. The Divine does not create "Greatest Hits", the Divine only creates masterpieces and it's only our perceptions and our interpretations of these masterpieces that make it hit or miss. Which, of course has nothing to do with the Divine, but everything to do with us.

I urge you to buy this CD and let yourself dream again. Get out of your head and back into your heart. Even if you don't do the excercises I suggested; the breathing, the writing, the stretching, just allow this music to wash over you and heal you in ways you never thought possible.

Stretch forth and be the blessing you were created to be. Make this CD a prelude to your day and miracles will begin to happen.

I promise...

Peace & Blessings,
john, 'the Light Coach'

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As expected

Timely delivery. Like the CD. Probably should have purchased a few of the songs as mp3's. Cheaper and wouldn't have been too much Debussey:)

I like it

Debussy is a great composer. I like it if anyone wants to get into Impressionist Music.

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Tracks
Fêtes, for orchestra (Nocturne No. 2), L. 91/2 | Rêverie, for piano, L. 68 | Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, incidental music for soloists, chorus & orchestra, L. 124: Prelude to The Council of the False Gods | String Quartet, L. 85 (Op. 10): Scherzo. Assez vif et bien rhythmé | La Mer, symphonic sketches (3) for orchestra, L. 109: 1. De l'aube à midi sur la mer | La Mer, symphonic sketches (3) for orchestra, L. 109: 2. Jeux de vagues | La Mer, symphonic sketches (3) for orchestra, L. 109: 3. Dialogue du vent et de la mer

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