Extase
French source:
Jean Lahor
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
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
A sleep as sweet as death:
Exquisite death, death perfumed
By the breath of the beloved:
On your pale breast my heart is sleeping…
Translation © Richard Stokes, from A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Extase
French source:
Jean Lahor
Rapture
English source:
Richard Stokes
Sur un lys pâle mon cœur dort
On a pale lily my heart is sleeping
D’un sommeil doux comme la mort …
A sleep as sweet as death:
Mort exquise, mort parfumée
Exquisite death, death perfumed
Du souffle de la bien-aimée …
By the breath of the beloved:
Sur ton sein pâle mon cœur dort
D’un sommeil doux comme la mort …
Composer
Henri Duparc
Eugène Marie Henri Fouques Duparc (21 January 1848 – 12 February 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period. Read more here.
Poet
Performances
Previously performed at:
- Hello Darkness 27 Oct 2023
- 10. Rapunzel: Emily Christina Loftus & George Ireland 23 Apr 2023
- 53. Invitation Au Voyage: Marie-Laure Garnier & Célia Oneto Bensaid 21 Oct 2019
- Song at Wolfson: William Morgan sings Schumann and Duparc 26 Apr 2018