La Messagère

La Messagère (FR) The Messenger. Fauré's setting (1914, Le Jardin clos #3) for voice and piano of the fourth poem from the Jeux et songes (Games and Dreams) section of the volume Entrevisions (Indistinct Sightings, 1898) by van Lerberghe. Fauré makes several changes in the poem: line 6: »aubépine blanche« (white hawthorne) becomes plural; line 13 »s'approche« (approaches, nears) becomes »s'avance« (advances); line 16, a comma is added after »Splendide.« The song is dedicated to Mme. Gabrielle…