Debussy - Romance (1891) (cello/piano)

Piano: Casper Masiarek
Cello: Vidur Shah
Debussy has an enormous amount of sadly unrecognized vocal works, almost the same size as his solo piano catalog. A vast majority of the vocal works happened to be in the style of traditional German Lieder - solo soprano and piano accompaniment. A few of these used text written by Debussy himself, however, the majority were poems written by Théodore de Banville and Paul Bourget.
The text of Romance was written by Paul Bourget in a poem by the same title.
Romance: 'L'âme évaporée'
L’âme évaporée et souffrante,
L’âme douce, l’âme odorante
Des lis divins que j’ai cueillis
Dans le jardin de ta pensée,
Où donc les vents l’ont-ils chassée,
Cette âme adorable des lis?
N’est-il plus un parfum qui reste
De la suavité céleste
Des jours où tu m’enveloppais
D’une vapeur surnaturelle,
Faite d’espoir, d’amour fidèle,
De béatitude et de paix?
The spent and suffering soul
The spent and suffering soul,
The sweet soul, the soul steeped
In the divine lilies I gathered
In the garden of your thoughts,
Where have the winds dispersed it,
This adorable lilies’ soul?
Does not a single scent remain
Of the heavenly softness
Of the days when you enclosed me
In a supernatural mist,
Made of hope, of faithful love,
Of bliss and of peace?
Paul Bourget 1882

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