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The Talisman, or The Swallow-hole in the Bois d'Amour, Pont-Aven (1888) by Paul Serusier (1864-1927)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris / Giraudon / Bridgeman Art Library, London
Track(s) taken from CDA67728

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Any honest appraisal of Ravel’s art must acknowledge its dark side. In the 1890s he discovered Poe and Aloysius Bertrand, and Un grand sommeil noir, finished on 6 August 1895, is an exercise in unrelieved gloom and, again, monotony.

from notes by Roger Nichols © 2009

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Recording details: July 2008
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Julian Millard
Release date: June 2009
Total duration: 4 minutes 47 seconds

Un grand sommeil noir
composer
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
completed on 6 August 1895
author of text
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Public Domain

Gerald Finley (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)
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