Classical Music | Baritone

Recorded on 04/06/2005, uploaded on 03/21/2009

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Beau Soir           Claude Debussy

Lyrics by Paul Bourget

When the rivers are rosy in the setting sun,

and a mild tremor runs over the cornfields,

an exhortation to be happy seems to emanate from things

and rises towards the troubled heart.

An exhortation to enjoy the charm of being alive

while one is young and the evening is beautiful,

for we go away, as this stream goes:

the stream to the sea, we to the tomb.

The fine white clouds go drifting by

through the deep blue like fine silent dreams;

I feel as if I have long been dead,

and happy, drift in eternal regions too.

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.