Ernest Chausson:
La chanson bien douce
Apaisement
Le Chevalier Malheur

Charles M. Loeffler:
La chanson des ingénues
Sérénade
Le son du cor

Claude Debussy:
Les Ingénues
Chevaux de bois
Il pleure dans mon coeur
C'est l 'extase langoureuse
Colloque sentimental

Reynaldo Hahn:
L´Incredule

Louis Vierne:
A une femme
Les faux beaux jours
Marine

Gabriel Dupont:
Le Foyer
La neige

Charles Bordes:
Epithalame

Gabriel Fauré:
En sourdine
Prison

Rita Strohl:
Chanson d´Automne

Edgar Varese:
Un grand sommeil noir

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) is considered the most widely read French poet ever. His extremely fine feeling for sensuality, melody and pictoriality, as well as for the sound of language, is omnipresent in his poems. Although this makes it very difficult to translate, he is virtually predestined for song compositions. In addition to classics of French melodies such as Gabriel Faure and Claude Debussy, soprano Karola Pavone and her accompanist Boris Radulovic dedicate their recording for COVIELLO to some otherwise underrepresented song composers such as Gabriel Dupont and Reynaldo Hahn, whose settings of the verses Verlaine, by the way, greatly appreciated.

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Recording: Concert hall Blaibach, Germany, February 2019.