Songs
L'invitation au voyage
(1870)
L'invitation au voyage
Mon enfant, ma sœur, Songe à la douceurD’aller là-bas vivre ensemble! Aimer à loisir, Aimer et mourirAu pays qui te ressemble! Les soleils mouillés De ces ciels brouillésPour mon esprit ont les charmes Si mystérieux De tes traîtres yeux,Brillant à travers leurs larmes.Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,Luxe, calme et volupté! Vois sur ces canaux Dormir ces vaisseauxDont l’humeur est vagabonde; C’est pour assouvir Ton moindre désirQu’ils viennent du bout du monde. -Les soleils couchants Revêtent les champs,Les canaux, la ville entière, D’hyacinthe et d’or; Le monde s’endortDans une chaude lumière.Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,Luxe, calme et volupté!
Invitation to journey
My child, my sister, Think how sweetTo journey there and live together! To love as we please, To love and dieIn the land that is like you! The watery suns Of those hazy skiesHold for my spirit The same mysterious charms As your treacherous eyesShining through their tears. There - nothing but order and beauty dwell, Abundance, calm, and sensuous delight. See on those canals Those vessels sleeping,Vessels with a restless soul; To satisfy Your slightest desireThey come from the ends of the earth. The setting suns Clothe the fields, Canals and all the town With hyacinth and gold; The world falls asleepIn a warm light. There - nothing but order and beauty dwell,Abundance, calm, and sensuous delight.
Composer
Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
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Poet
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
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Previously performed at:
- 28 Mar 2020: Grieg, Strauss & Berlioz: Ailish Tynan & James Baillieu
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- 23 Oct 2019: 63. French Fables: Jess Dandy & Sholto Kynoch
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- 21 Oct 2019: 53. Invitation Au Voyage: Marie-Laure Garnier & Célia Oneto Bensaid
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- 24 Oct 2018: A French Songbook: Véronique Gens & Susan Manoff
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- 26 Apr 2018: Song at Wolfson: William Morgan sings Schumann and Duparc
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- 21 Oct 2017: Rückert Lieder: Thomas Oliemans & Malcolm Martineau
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L'invitation au voyage
Invitation to journey
Composer
Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period.
Read more here.
See Full Entry
Poet
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.
His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.
Read Les Fleurs du mal here.
See Full Entry
Sorry, no further description available.
Previously performed at:
- 28 Mar 2020: Grieg, Strauss & Berlioz: Ailish Tynan & James Baillieu
- 23 Oct 2019: 63. French Fables: Jess Dandy & Sholto Kynoch
- 21 Oct 2019: 53. Invitation Au Voyage: Marie-Laure Garnier & Célia Oneto Bensaid
- 24 Oct 2018: A French Songbook: Véronique Gens & Susan Manoff
- 26 Apr 2018: Song at Wolfson: William Morgan sings Schumann and Duparc
- 21 Oct 2017: Rückert Lieder: Thomas Oliemans & Malcolm Martineau
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