Bringing together Benjamin Britten's Les Illiuminations and Claude Debussy's Ariettes OubliÃ©es is like peeking behind the door to one of the most mythical bedrooms in literary history. There sit the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, working frantically away. They write on loose sheets of paper, promissory notes and receipts. The ink drips, the papers are full of wine stains and food scraps. They are unwashed and unshaven. They drink, quarrel and sleep with each other. Verlaine writes texts that will be included in the collection of poems Romances sans paroles, taken by Debussy as a starting point for Ariettes OubliÃ©es. The poems that Rimbaud is working on will much later be published as Les Illuminations.

Tracklist:

Illuminations~Fanfare
Illuminations~Villes
Illuminations~Phrase
Illuminations~Antiquen
Illuminations~Marine
Illuminations~Interlude
Illuminations~Being Beauteous
Illuminations~Parade
Ariettes OubliÃ¨es~C'est L'extase langoureuse
Ariettes OubliÃ¨es~II pleure dans mon cour
Ariettes OubliÃ¨es~LÃ³mbre des arbres
Ariettes OubliÃ¨es~Chevaux de bois
Ariettes OubliÃ¨es~Green
Ariettes OubliÃ¨es~Spleen
Clair de Lune - Suite Bergamasque

UPC: 822359002647
Label: Swedish Society
Release Date: 11.19.21
Format: CD

Britten / Asplund / Lukas - Les Illuminations (CD)