Classical Music | Soprano

Recorded on 09/18/2013, uploaded on 09/18/2013

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

From the first collection (Premier recueil) of Fêtes galantes

Clair de lune (‘Moonlight’)
Your soul is a chosen landscape
which brings delight to masqueraders and dancers,
playing the lute and dancing, almost sad in their fantastic costumes,
while singing in the minor key of triumphant love and the favorable life.
They don’t seem to believe in their happiness
and their song mingles with the light of the moon….
with the calm light of the moon, sad and lovely,
which causes  the birds in the trees to dream,
and makes the fountains of water sob with ecstasy,
the tall fountains, slender among the marble statues.

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.