Sonic Asymmetry

Gabriel Fauré: “La Sicilienne op.78”

ガブリエル・フォーレ：「シチリアオペラ78」

TIME COMMITMENT: 4 minutes

This introspective and inconsolable lullaby adsorbs layer by layer as a carefully balanced, subliminal chamber piece.  The asymmetric dialogue places a crooning cello in piano’s collateral embrace.  The result is perennially subtle, creaky and slow, just as the means of transportation were in the composer’s era.

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INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilienne_(Faur%C3%A9)

A REFLECTION

Eyes, are you not aware,

When eager to admire

Her face so soft and fair,

You are as wax in fire,

As snow in sun? Unless you have a care

Certes you’ll melt away.

Ludovico Ariosto: “Madrigal 1”