Barbara Hendricks Clair De Lune, Лунный свет (муз. Габриэля Форе ст. : Paul Verlaine)

Piano: Michel Dalberto. Clair de lune, ( Moonlight ) Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine. The pianist Graham Johnson writes that it closes Fauré s second period and opens the doors into his third. Johnson notes that it is for many people the quintessential French mélodie. The lyric is from Verlaine s early collection Fêtes galantes (1869). It inspired not only Fauré but Claude Debussy, who set it in 1881 and wrote a well known piano piece inspired by it in 1891. Fauré s 1887 setting is for piano and voice, but he later orchestrated it for his incidental music Masques et bergamasques, Op. 112.