Lorna Anderson, Lisa Milne, Malcolm Martineau - Debussy: Songs, Vol. 2

Two of Britain�s leading exponents of French song, the acclaimed sopranos Lorna Anderson and Lisa Milne, join Malcolm Martineau for the second volume of Hyperion�s overview of Debussy�s haunting, mercurial songs. The French composer�s output in this genre extended throughout his life and he was always inspired by poetry�from his first adolescent attempts to set Paul Verlaine�s F�tes galantes (which he later revised) to the Trois Po�mes de Mallarme, written five years before his death. All inhabit a universe of shifting colours and impressions, from the sensual, perfumed �flutes and flesh� of the Chansons de Bilitis to the Proses lyriques, which foreshadow the dreamlike atmosphere of Pelleas et Melisande.