Sonata for flute, viola, and harp :
Pastorale ; Interlude ; Finale played by the Philharmonic Harp Trio
This Trio was the second of a projected cycle, of six sonatas for various combinations, at which Debussy was working during the last years of his life. Only three of the sonatas were written. The music reflects not only the composer's personal mood of melancholy, but the whole tragic background of the war period. (The Trio was written during September and October 1915.) Debussy himself wrote of it that ' it is terribly sad and I don't know whether one ought to laugh or cry at it. Perhaps both