La Chanson d'Eve

La Chanson d'Eve (FR) The Song of Eve. Fauré's settings (1906 / 10) for voice and piano of ten poems from La Chanson d'Eve (1899 / 1903, pub. 1904) by van Lerberghe. The book has several sections: Prélude, Premières paroles, La Tentation, La Faute, and Crépuscule (Prelude, First Words, Temptation, Sin, and Twilight). The book La Chanson d'Eve is dedicated to Emile Verhaeren. Van Lerberghe writes that it is » as much painted as sung . . . How should I express clearly things that I imagine as…