Ravel - “Don Quichotte à Dulcinée“ Fischer-Dieskau

A set of three songs by Maurice Ravel (written in 1932-33). This was Ravel’s last completed work. It had been commissioned for a film by G.W. Pabst starring Chaliapin, but the slowness of Ravel’s composing meant that the songs were not used, and Jacques Ibert provided some songs instead. The three songs of “Don Quichotte à Dulcinée“, poems by novelist Paul Morand, reflect the tenderly sincere and humorous moments of this well-known tale. The introductory quixotic song, “Chanson Romanesque,“ uses a