Classical Music | Soprano

Recorded on 08/16/2005, uploaded on 01/14/2009

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Apparition, from Quatre chansons de jeunesse       Claude Debussy

Lyrics by Stéphane Mallarmé

The moon was saddening.  Seraphim in tears, dreaming, bow in hand, in the calm of vaporous flowers were drawing from dying viols white sobs that glided over the blue corollas.  It was the blessed day of your first kiss.  My fantasy that loves to torment me knowingly reveled in the scent of sadness, which, even without regret and disappointment, the gathering of a dream leaves in the heart that has gathered it.  Thus I wandered, my eyes fixed on the worn pavement, when with the sun in your hair, in the street and in the evening, laughing, you appeared to me, appeared to me...and I thought I saw the fairy with her luminous cap who once through the lovely sleeps of my spoilt childhood would pass, letting her half-closed hands always snow white bouquets of perfumed stars, of perfumed stars.

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.