Maurice Ravel - 3 Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

- Composer: Joseph-Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 -- 28 December 1937) - Performers: Matti Hirvikangas (viola), Ulf Forsberg (violin), Nils-Erik Sparf (violin), Per Billman (bass clarinet), Per Billman (clarinet), Lars Paulsson (clarinet), Peter Rydström (piccolo), Peter Rydström (flute), Andreas Alin (flute), Bengt Forsberg (piano), Mats Lindström (cello) - Soloist: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano) - Year of recording: 1994 Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, song cycle for voice & ensemble (or piano), written in 1913. 00:00 - I. Soupir [à Igor Stravinsky] 04:22 - II. Placet futile [à Florent Schmitt] 08:55 - III. Surgi de la croupe et du bond [à Erik Satie] In a 1927 interview, Maurice Ravel said of the symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé that he “exorcised our language, like the magician that he was. He has released the winged thoughts, the unconscious daydreams from their prison.“ Mallarmé had been