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Roses fanées by Isaac de Camondo

The singer laments to a loved one that the flowering of springtime has passed and faded, like their love, which can never again be awakened, even by a kiss.

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Text by Maurice Bouchor

Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses
Ne reviendra plus à ce printemps-ci ;
Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses
Est passés, le temps des œillets aussi.

Le vent a changé, les cieux sont moroses,
Et nous n'irons plus courir, et cueillir
Les lilas en fleur et les belles roses ;
Le printemps est triste et ne peut refleurir.

Oh ! joyeux et doux printemps de l'année,
Qui vins, l'an passé, nous ensoleiller,
Notre fleur d'amour est si bien fanée,
Que ton baiser ne peut l'éveiller!

Et toi, que fais-tu? pas de fleurs écloses,
Point de gai soleil ou d'ombrages frais,
Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses
Avec notre amour est mort à jamais.

The time of lilacs and the time of roses
Will no longer come again to this spring;
The time of lilacs and the time of roses
Has passed, the time of carnations, too.

The wind has changed, the skies are morose,
And we will no longer run to pick
The lilacs in bloom and the beautiful roses;
The spring is sad and cannot bloom.

Oh! Joyful and gentle spring of the year,
That came last year to bathe us in sunlight,
Our flower of love is so wilted,
That your kiss cannot awaken it!

And you, what are you doing? No budding flowers,
No bright sun at all nor cool shade,
The time of lilacs and the time of roses,
Along with our love, is dead forever.

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from Music of Isaac de Camondo, released March 31, 2013

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Norma and Richard Mayer play a fiery brand of chamber music not often associated with their rare musical blend - music for unaccompanied voice and flute. Their operatic arrangements have been acclaimed as a groundbreaking direction in modern music.

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