Descripción de Debussy: L'âme évaporée - Sandrine Piau:

High resolution and stereo sound: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PqmQ3KIb4s&fmt=18 "L'âme évaporée", by Claude Debussy (1862-1918), from Deux Romances, composed in June 1891, published in December 1891 In this video: Sandrine Piau, soprano Susan Manoff, piano Recorded in 2006 "Romance may be taken as Debussy's farewell to the genre. Orthodox elements include the regularly pulsing accompaniment and the symmetrical phrasing. Less orthodox is the harmony: before the final major triad there is only one perfect cadence in the whole song, on the word 'odorante' elsewhere cadences are continually interrupted. This too was a sign of things to come." - Roger Nichols Romance L'âme évaporée et souffrante, l'âme douce, l'âme odorante des lis divins que j'ai cueillis dans le jardin de ta pensée, où donc les vents l'ont-ils chassée, cette âme adorable des lis ? N'est-il plus un parfum qui reste de la suavité céleste des jours où tu m'enveloppais d'une vapeur surnaturelle, faite d'espoir, d'amour fidèle, de béatitude et de paix ? Translation (by Korin Kormick): The vanishing and suffering soul, the sweet soul, the fragrant soul of divine lilies that I have picked in the garden of your thoughts, where, then, have the winds chased it, this charming soul of the lilies? is there no longer a perfume that remains of the celestial sweetness of the days when you enveloped me in a supernatural haze, made of hope, of faithful love, of bliss and of peace?