No. 2: Harmonie du Soir

Print and download 5 Poèmes de Baudelaire, No. 2: Harmonie du Soir (Evening Harmony) sheet music composed by Claude Debussy. Sheet music arranged.
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Evening harmony

Both Faure's and Debussy's settings come from relatively early in their careers, and they make an interesting contrast. Faure is not quite comfortable with Baudelaire he tries his best with long and generous lines and with Schumannesque piano writing but finds himself most at home with a comparatively slight poem, Hymne , to which he gives a charmingly pretty lilt: Debussy, on the other hand recovering from a severe attack of Wagnerism realizes immediately that Gallic understatement and elegance are the last thing these poems need, and lavishes upon them an almost decadent opulence.


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They are quite uncharacteristic Debussy, but with their florid tendrils of piano figuration, their rich sonority and intensity of utterance they outface Baudelaire quite sumptuously. They are big songs literally: That manner is no less appropriate to the familiar Duparc settings you hear the advantages that a full voice can bring to this music in the fearless launching of the sestet of La vie anterieure , but although what one might call Lott's Strauss voice is the one most frequently heard here she needs it for the Alpine vocal gradients of Chabrier's striking but hideously difficult L'invitation au voyage there is plentiful delicacy as well for Sauguet's engaging hymn to a cat and for de Severac's graceful es hiboux.

The songs by 'minor' composers are by no means a mere scraping of the barrel of Baudelaire settings, in fact: I hope this will not be my last encounter with Pierre de Breville and Pierre Capdevielle, skilled spinners of melodic lines, both of them. The recording was made on two separate dates and somebody forgot to ensure that the sound matched: If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.

Harmonie du soir (English translation)

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