Les Berceaux

Les Berceaux (FR) The Cradles. Fauré's setting (1879, Op. 23, #1) for voice and piano of the 16th poem in the Mélanges (Mixtures) section of Stances (Stanzas, 1865/66) by Sully-Prudhomme. The poem's original title is its first line: »Le Long du quai« (Along the quay). There is another poem in Stances titled »Les Berceaux.« Fauré repeats the last line of the poem. The song is dedicated to Mlle. Alice Boissonet.