sung by Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Romance Green
Fantoches (Marionettes)
Proses lyriques: De greve (The
Strand) ; and De soir (Evening)
L'echelonnement des haies (Hedgerows)
Mandoline
Of all branches of musical composition the French excel in that of song. Of the many great French song composers one of the greatest was undoubtedly Debussy. He worked at a particularly rich and productive period in poetry-when the symbolists, such as Mallarme, Baudelaire, and Verlaine were at the height of their powers. At that period of the nineteenth century French poets extolled music and French musicians extolled poetry. One of Debussy's favourite poets was Verlaine, many of whose musical' poems he set with rare insight and understanding of their subtleties, four of which are included in this programme' Green ', ' Fantoches 'L'échelonnement des haies ', and ' Mandoline '.
Sophie Wyss , one of the most