Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (2)

Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (2) (FR) Three Poems by Stèphane Mallarmé. Ravel's settings (1913) for voice, piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarintet, string quartet, and piano of three poems by Mallarmé: »Soupir,« »Placet futile,« and »Surgi de la croupe et du bond.« Ravel writes: »I wished to transpose into music the poetry of Mallarmé. Particularly that preciosity full of profundity so characteristic of Mallarmé,« and » It is impossible to explain. [Mallarmé's] Poetry either speaks to one…