Natalie Dessay - Fauré: Mandoline Op. 58 No. 1 - LIVE Turku 2013 - Video
PUBLISHED:  Aug 29, 2013
DESCRIPTION:
An extract from a concert given at the Turku Music Festival in August 2013. "Après un rêve" is part of Cinq mélodies "de Venise", Op. 58, composed by Gabriel Fauré in 1891. It is based on a poem by Paul Verlaine.

Gabriel Fauré
MANDOLINE, Op. 58 No. 1

Soprano: Natalie Dessay
Mezzosoprano: Virpi Räisänen

Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hannu Lintu
The Helsinki Music Centre Choir
Tapani Länsiö, training

Turku Music Festival
17 August 2013

All photos (except the first) (c) Simon Fowler
http://www.simonfowlerphotography.com/
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Libretto:

Les donneurs de sérénades
Et les belles écouteuses
Échangent des propos fades
Sous les ramures chanteuses.

C'est Tircis et c'est Aminte,
Et c'est l'éternel Clitandre,
Et c'est Damis qui pour mainte
Cruelle fit maint vers tendre.

Leurs courtes vestes de soie,
Leurs longues robes à queues,
Leur élégance, leur joie
Et leurs molles ombres bleues,

Tourbillonnent dans l'extase
D'une lune rose et grise,
Et la mandoline jase
Parmi les frissons de brise.
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Translation:

The singers of serenades
Whisper their faded vows
Unto fair listening maids
Under the singing boughs.

Tircis, Aminte, are there,
Clitandre is over-long,
And Damis for many a fair
Tyrant makes many a song.

Their short vests, silken and bright,
Their long pale silken trains,
Their elegance of delight,
Twine soft blue silken chains.

And the mandolines and they,
Faintlier breathing, swoon
Into the rose and grey
Ecstasy of the moon.
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