Duoby Danier
May 1924 issue of La Revue musicale was a commemorative… 更多 featuring a supplement of pieces composed in honor of one of France's greatest poets by Ravel, Honegger, Caplet, and Delage. To this occasion we also owe Dukas' single extant song, a setting of Ronsard's sonnet "Ha! Bel Acueil, que ta douce parole," and that startling anomaly, Roussel's setting of Rossignol, mon mignonne for medium voice and flute. Far from being the gimmick this suggests, the combination exactly renders the sense of Ronsard's poem, the nightingale's blithesome descant as the lover complains that his beloved stops her ears to avoid hearing his songs -- "We sigh alike: Your sweet voice attempts To tell the affection of… 更多
