Déodat de Séverac - Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit … (1903, poem by Verlaine) [Score]

Déodat de Séverac (1872 – 1921), Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit … (1903) for piano and voice, poem by Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896). Dedicated to Paul Poujaud. English version by Edward Agate.

Victoire Bunel, mezzo-soprano
Sarah Ristorcelli, piano
Prima Verba
℗ Initiale

Released on: 2019-11-22

Déodat de Séverac was born in Saint-Félix-de-Caraman, Haute-Garonne. He descended from a noble family, profoundly influenced by the musical traditions of his native Languedoc.

Séverac is noted for his vocal and choral music, which includes settings of verse in Occitan (the historic language of Languedoc) and Catalan (the historic language of Roussillon) as well as French poems by Verlaine and Baudelaire. His compositions for solo piano have also won critical acclaim, and many of them were titled as pictorial evocations and published in the collections Chant de la terre, En Languedoc, and En vacances.

A popular example of his work is The Old Musical Box ("Où l'on entend une vieille boîte à musique", from En vacances). His masterpiece, however, is the suite Cerdaña (written 1904—1911), filled with the local color of Languedoc. His motet Tantum ergo is also still sung on occasion.

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Paul-Marie Verlaine (/vɛərˈlɛn/;[1] French: [vɛʁlɛn(ə)]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.

(Wikipedia)

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