Rich selection of 36 songs, settings of texts by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarme, Bourget, Pierre Louys and other poets. Songs include: Beau Soir, Mandoline, Les Angelus, Dans le jardin, Cinq poemes de Baudelaire, Trois chansons de Bilitis, and many more. All ... read more
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Rich selection of 36 songs, settings of texts by Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarme, Bourget, Pierre Louys and other poets. Songs include: Beau Soir, Mandoline, Les Angelus, Dans le jardin, Cinq poemes de Baudelaire, Trois chansons de Bilitis, and many more. All songs reproduced directly from originals. Line-for-line English translations of French texts.
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