Faure Clair De Lune Felicity Lott

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmants masques et bergamasques,
Jouant du luth et dansant, et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques!

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune.
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur,
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver, les oiseaux dans les arbres,
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres

La vostra anima è un paesaggio squisito
che maschere e bergamaschi vanno incantando
suonando il liuto e danzando, quasi tristi
nei fantastici travestimenti.

Pur cantando in tono minore
l'amore vittorioso e la fortuna
della felicità sembrano increduli;
e il canto si fonde col chiaro di luna,

col calmo chiaro di luna triste e bello
che fa sognare negli alberi gli uccelli,
d'estasi singhiozzare gli zampilli,
gli alti zampilli, agili fra i marmi.


Your soul is a chosen landscape
charmed by masquers and revellers
playing the lute and dancing and almost
sad beneath their fanciful disguises!

Even while singing, in a minor key,
of victorious love and fortunate living
they do not seem to believe in their happiness,
and their song mingles with the moonlight,

the calm moonlight, sad and beautiful,
which sets the birds in the trees dreaming,
and makes the fountains sob with ecstasy,
the tall slender fountains among the marble statues!

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[elainasaunt]

The pianist is almost certainly Graham Johnson, a frequent collaborator of Lott who is one of the top experts on French song. They recorded this on their 2002 album "Summertime" and that is likely the version provided here.

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@toadswildride

We want to know the name of the piano player, not the singer.

[cojean29]

tout est très beau : le piano comme la voix - et un bon enregistrement

[TheCatedral]

Merveilleuse Felicity Lott, merveilleux pianiste aussi: Qui est-ce?

Merci pour le video. L'enregistrement est intimiste à souhait pour Fauré. Très belle symbiose entre la voix et le piano.

[toadswildride]

@lornabegbie felicity lott is the singer...it's in the title of the video.

[lornabegbie]

It is quite rude to leave out the name of pianist, who is obviously world class...

Please may we know the name.

[Albertmaximus1]

Clair de Lune is unbelievable beautiful romance and sounds attractive in all of versions!

[xavier1850]

Very beautiful. Slight legato on piano makes for interesting performance. Beautiful.