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Chansons de Verlaine

for soprano and piano
Texts by Paul Verlaine
soprano and piano
Product number: ED 13182
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Chansons de Verlaine were completed in 2006. The third song, Colloque sentimental, was written in 2003 for Alison Smart and Katharine Durran’s  New French Song project. It was as a result of having written one short song to words by Verlaine that I subsequently decided to set two further poems to make a group of three.

All three were also set by Debussy: L’ombre des arbres and Chevaux de bois appear in Ariettes Oubliées, while Colloque sentimental belongs to Debussy’s second set of Fêtes Galantes. The poems I have grouped together are linked by the idea of three different landscapes. In the first, Verlaine precedes the words of his own sad, pale landscape with words from Cyrano de Bergerac about a nightingale who fears himself about to fall into a river and drown. In the second poem the landscape has been occupied by a fairground where men, women and children watch as the hobby-horses go round and round before night falls and the church tolls a passing-bell. The third poem takes us into an old park where two ghosts recall their past. The one wonders if the other remembers the happy days of their past lives, but the other doesn’t want to remember, barely acknowledging the closeness they once shared, seeing only that ‘hope has fled, defeated, towards the dark sky.’ I am very grateful to Roger Nichols and Dominique Mols for their advice with the setting of the French texts and with the translations.

John Casken

Colloque sentimental was first performed by Alison Smart and Katherine Durran at the Purcell Room in London on 13 July 2004

Content

I L'ombre des arbres (The Shadow of the Trees)
II Chevaux de bois (Merry-go-round)
III Colloque sentimental (Sentimental Conversation)

More Information

Title:
Chansons de Verlaine
for soprano and piano
Texts by Paul Verlaine
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2003 - 2006
Duration:
12 ′
World Premiere:
July 13, 2004 · London (UK)
Purcell Room
Alison Smart, soprano; Katherine Durran, piano


September 28, 2007 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
Patricia Rozario, soprano; Julius Drake, piano

Series:
Title:
Chansons de Verlaine
for soprano and piano
Texts by Paul Verlaine
Language:
French
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2003 - 2006
Duration:
12 ′
Voice:
Sopran
World Premiere:
July 13, 2004 · London (UK)
Purcell Room
Alison Smart, soprano; Katherine Durran, piano


September 28, 2007 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
Patricia Rozario, soprano; Julius Drake, piano

Series:
Title:
Chansons de Verlaine
for soprano and piano
Texts by Paul Verlaine
Language:
French
Level of difficulty:
difficult
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2003 - 2006
Duration:
12 ′
Voice:
Sopran
World Premiere:
July 13, 2004 · London (UK)
Purcell Room
Alison Smart, soprano; Katherine Durran, piano


September 28, 2007 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
Patricia Rozario, soprano; Julius Drake, piano

Series:

Technical Details

Product number:
ED 13182
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3079-3
Product number:
ED 13182
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3079-3
UPC:
841886011854
Weight:
0,12 kg
Pages:
24
Format:
23.1cm x 30.3cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Product number:
ED 13182 Q6665
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3079-3
Pages:
29
File format:
(PDF / 409,47 KB)

Performances

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  • Chansons de Verlaine
    Birmingham Chamber Music Society
    January 17, 2010 | Birmingham (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Adrian Boult Hall
  • Chansons de Verlaine
    Sounds New 2009
    April 30, 2009 | Canterbury (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , St Gregory’s Centre for Music
  • Chansons de Verlaine
    September 28, 2007 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Wigmore Hall — World Premiere
    19.30 h
  • Chansons de Verlaine
    Second Glance Festival
    May 18, 2006 | London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Bolivar Hall
  • Chansons de Verlaine
    Casken Resonances
    May 3, 2005 | Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , Lord Rhodes Room, Royal Northern College of Music
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