Paradis

Paradis (FR) Paradise, or Eden. Fauré's setting (1906 / 10, La Chanson d'Eve #1) for voice and piano of the first poem from the Premières paroles (First words) section of La Chanson d'Eve (1899 / 1903, pub. 1904) by van Lerberghe. The original poem is untitled, and was written in Rome and Florence, where van Lerberghe and Albert Mockel read it aloud to each other in the garden of Florence's Torre del Gallo, an »Eden« greatly admired by van Lerberghe. Fauré cuts the last stanza of the poem…