Debussy - Romance

Arrangement of Romance L’âme évaporée, L.65, by Claude Debussy for piano and cello.
Level: Intermediate -Advanced
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About this Arrangement:
Debussy Romance ‘L’ame evaporee’ eet sourrrante, L65, is a song composed as part of a set of Romances (Deux Romance) by the French composer. Transcribed by A Gretchaninoff, this arrangement is adapted further in form, for cello and piano. Originally in B Major, it has been transposed to D Major. The lyrics in the original song version were written by Paul Bourget, French novelist and critic.
 
This arrangement makes an ideal recital or exam piece. 
 
The spent and suffering soul,
The sweet soul, the soul steeped
In the divine lilies I gathered
In the garden of your thoughts,
Where have the winds dispersed it,
This adorable lilies’ soul?
 
Does not a single scent remain
Of the heavenly softness
Of the days when you enclosed me
In a supernatural mist,
Made of hope, of faithful love,
Of bliss and of peace?