This is the beautiful Clair de Lune (Light of the Moon) written by the French composer Faure.  It is one of my favourite french art songs, tell me what you think? xx


Your soul is a chosen landscape
Where charming masqueraders and bergamasquers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
They all sing in a minor key
About triumphant love and fortunate life,
They do not seem to believe in their fortune
And their song blends with the light of the moon,
In the calm moonlight, sad and beautiful,
Which has the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall fountains, slender amid marble statues.

Clair de Lune

03 Deh Vieni Non Tardar

Tu che di gel sei cinta - Turandot - Puccini

Adieu, notre petite table - Manon - Massenet

Deh vieni non tardar - Le nozze di Figaro - Mozart

Songs My Mother Taught Me was written by Antonin Dvorak for voice and piano in 1880. 
It is in Czech, and from his song cycle Gypsy Songs or Cigánské melodie

Songs My Mother Taught Me

Rhian Saunders is an Australian/British soprano brought up in Sydney, and currently based in the UK. Rhian finished her MA of Advanced Vocal Studies at the Wales International Academy of Voice with Dennis O'Neill in 2017. She won the Dame Joan Sutherland Memorial Scholarship and Operatic Aria Award from the Sydney Eisteddfod in July and had her concert debut singing in the Yerevan Opera Theatre in Armenia, with the Yerevan Opera and Ballet Orchestra, performing arias and duets by Gounod and Mozart, as well as traditional Armenian music by Komitas and Manuryan.

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