1 Musique L54 [2'02]
2 Romance L53 [2'39]
3 La romance d’Ariel L58 [4'53]
4 Regret L59 [2'37]
5 L’archet L22 [3'25]
6 Chanson triste L24 [1'35]
7 Les baisers d’amour L23 [1'59]
8 Les Elfes L25 [6'56]
9 Aimons-nous et dormons L7 [2'46]
10 Souhait L18 [2'09]
11 Sérénade L29 [1'54]
12 Reverie L3 [2'12]
13 La Belle au Bois dormant L81 [3'15]
14 Il dort encore L34 [3'01]
15 Les roses L28 [1'53]
16 Pierrot L30 [1'38]
17 Les baisers L9 [2'13]
18 Dans le jardin L107 [2'34]
19 Le lilas L36 [1'59]
20 Caprice L6 [1'26]
21 Zéphyr L19 [1'39]
22 Fete galante L31 [1'52]

Le promenoir des deux amants L129 [6'52]:
23 Aupres de cette grotte sombre [2'34]
24 Crois mon conseil, chere Climene [2'10]
25 Je tremble en voyant ton visage [2'08]
26 Paysage sentimental L55 [3'04]

Hyperion presents a third volume in its acclaimed Debussy songs series, accompanied and curated by Malcolm Martineau, with booklet notes by French music expert par excellence Roger Nichols. Young soprano Jennifer France, winner of the Song Prize at the 2014 Kathleen Ferrier Awards and making her debut on the label, has a thrillingly expressive voice of diamantine beauty and is an ideal performer of these songs. Baritone Jonathan McGovern performs Le promenoir des deux amants and other songs with warm tone and great musical sensitivity.

The twenty-six songs on this recording fall into four categories: twelve on poems by Théodore de Banville; four settings of various authors, probably from 1882, but rediscovered only recently and first published in 2012; five songs on poems by Paul Bourget; and five from the years 1890 to 1910.