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Recorded on 07/17/2007, uploaded on 01/22/2009

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Après un Rêve           Gabriel Fauré

Fauré composed for vocal and instrumental genres and set many poems to music.  His best works are chamber compositions - many for strings. The text of Après Un Rêve is a French adaptation of an anonymous Italian poem.

In a slumber which held your image spellbound

I dreamt of happiness, passionate mirage,

Your eyes were softer, your voice pure and sonorous,

You shone like a sky lit up by the dawn;

You called me and I left the earth

To run away with you towards the light,

The skies opened their clouds for us,

Unknown splendours, divine flashes glimpsed,

Alas! Alas! sad awakening from dreams

I call you, O night; give me back your lies,

Return, return radiant,

Return, O mysterious night

The Lincoln Trio

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.