Two ghosts pass each other in a deserted park in Paul Verlaine’s melancholy poem ‘Colloque sentimental’ (Sentimental Conversation). One repeatedly prompts the other to remember their past love, but the second ghost is unable – or unwilling – to remember and speaks only of despair.
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Debussy
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French composer Claude Debussy was just beginning to find his musical voice when he penned the six settings of poems by Paul Verlaine that would come to be the Ariettes oubliées or ‘Forgotten Songs’.
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Claude Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor was the French composer’s final completed composition. Debussy performed the sonata himself at the premiere, with Gaston Poulet on violin, in his final public performance in Paris on May 5, 1917.
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Chloe Lankshear shares her approach to art-song, her perspective on Australian chamber music and her love of Canberra.
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“As I listen to the music and write these notes, I’m sitting outside on my deck, absorbing the sights and sounds of this lush springtime amongst rural bliss. The garden is flourishing and fragrant, wildlife abounds and the boronia and roses form a beautiful foreground to the mountains in the distance.” – Leanne Bear, CSO Violin
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“Make a cup of tea, grab a comfy chair and join me on a musical road trip!” Rowan Phemister, CSO Harp