Hotel

Hotel from 'Banalites' by Francois Poulenc.

Recorded April 2011 in the KBH, RIAM Dublin.
Benjamin Russell, baritone
Marek Ruszczynski, piano



Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage,
Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre.
Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages
J'allume au feu du jour ma cigarette.
Je ne veux pas travailler - je veux fumer.

My room has the form of a cage.
The sun reaches its arm in through the window.
But I want to smoke and make shapes in the air,
and so I light my cigarette on the sun's fire.
I don't want to work, I want to smoke.

(Translation via http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=1870)

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• Banalites
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