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Gabriel Fauré

Après un Rêve  Play

Oliver Aldort Cello
Ron Regev Piano

Recorded on 07/01/2015, uploaded on 04/01/2016

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

Although Après un Rêve is one of Fauré’s earliest songs (1877), it is unquestionably his most popular. The first of his Trois Melodies, Op. 7, which also include Hymne (Op.7, No. 2) and Barcarolle (Op. 7, No. 3), has been transcribed for several solo instruments including piano, yet remains best known in its intended form: as a song for solo voice. The dreamy, languid, and richly expressive melodic line of Après un Rêve is set to words by Romain Bussine. The text – a French adaptation of an anonymous Italian poem – describes a dream of a lover’s romantic rendezvous of an almost otherworldly kind, away from darkness, and toward an awakening light. But the dreamer, now awake, longs to return to the mysterious night. Notes by David H. Edelfelt.     Olver Aldort