Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)

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Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée (Reynaldo Hahn)

~~”The dark and abyss have a deep mystery, That no mortal has penetrated”  – Victor Hugo

Ivan Aivazovsky: "The Black Sea at Night" 1879 Ivan Aivazovsky: “The Black Sea at Night” 1879

 

Written in 1922, the year of the death of Hahn’s life-long friend and one time lover – the only lover he ever seems to have had – Marcel Proust, Quand la nuit n’est pas étoilée sets an expansive text by Victor Hugo. It sings of enlightenement and transfiguration; of the comfort of [read more…]