CPMF Musical Moment 21

 featuring some of our favorite artists, baritone Timothy Jones and pianist Jeffrey Sykes as they help play out 2021.
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Avant que tu ne t'en ailles (Before You Fade)
  From Gabriel Fauré’s La bonne chanson, Op. 61 for voice & painao (1894)
Verse: Paul Verlaine  • English Translation: Richard Stokes

Before you fade,

Pale morning star,

A thousand quail

Are singing, singing in the thyme.

Turn to the poet

Whose eyes are full of love,

The lark

Soars heavenward with the day.

Turn your gaze drowned

In the blue of dawn;

What delight

Among the fields of ripened corn!

And make my thoughts gleam

Yonder, far, ah far away!

The dew

Glints brightly on the hay.

Into the sweet dream where still asleep

My love is stirring . . .

Make haste, make haste,

For here's the golden sun.

Translation © Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder, published by Faber,
provided courtesy of Oxford Lieder [oxfordlieder.co.uk]