Les Roses d'Ispahan

Les Roses d'Ispahan (FR) The Roses of Ispahan (or Esfahan). Fauré's setting (1884, Op. 39, #4) for voice and piano of the 12th poem from Poèmes tragiques (Tragic Poems, 1884) by Leconte de Lisle. The poem itself is what the French call an »exercice de style,« a verbal tour-de-force whose principal feature is the fact that the last word of each line in every four-line stanza remains the same in all the other stanzas, though the line position of that word within the stanza may change: mousse…