Songs
Extase
(1874)
Extase
Sur un lys pâle mon cœur dortD’un sommeil doux comme la mort …Mort exquise, mort parfuméeDu souffle de la bien-aimée …Sur ton sein pâle mon cœur dortD’un sommeil doux comme la mort …
Rapture
On a pale lily my heart is sleeping A sleep as sweet as death:Exquisite death, death perfumedBy the breath of the beloved:On your pale breast my heart is sleeping…
Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
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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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Extase
Sur un lys pâle mon cœur dort
D’un sommeil doux comme la mort …
Mort exquise, mort parfumée
Du souffle de la bien-aimée …
Sur ton sein pâle mon cœur dort
D’un sommeil doux comme la mort …
Rapture
On a pale lily my heart is sleeping
A sleep as sweet as death:
Exquisite death, death perfumed
By the breath of the beloved:
On your pale breast my heart is sleeping…
If you would like to use our texts and translations, please click here for more information.
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
Sorry, no further description available.
Previously performed at:
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