Philippe jaroussky gabriel faure biography
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&#;Et leur chanson se mÍle au clair de lune.&#; Coutertenor Philippe
Jaroussky sings these words, which translate to &#;and their song mingles with
the moonlight,&#; no fewer than three times on his new recording, Green:
MÈlodies franÁaises sur des poËmes de Verlaine.
Philippe jaroussky gabriel faure biography
The strongest aspect of
the ambitious and rewarding CD is its offering of multiple composers&#;
interpretations of the symbolist poetry of Paul Verlaine, such as his
Clair de lune. Jaroussky sings versions of this song by Claude
Debussy, Gabriel FaurÈ, and Jozef Zygmunt Szulc, all three of which feature
vocal and instrumental melodies wending around each other, worrying yet
hopeful, and evoking the &#;birds dreaming in the trees&#; and the &#;fountains
sobbing with ecstasy.&#; The Debussy version, transcribed for the Quatour
EbËne by JÈrÙme Ducros, features a cello swirling around and under the piano
and voice.
Debussy set several Verlaine poems to mus