Âme de nuit

The first melody, Âme chaude , based on a poem by Maurice Maeterlinck, reflects the poet's mysterious and symbolist universe through ethereal chords, repeated regularly on the piano. We walk in a gloomy atmosphere where the sadness of a disappointed love already pierces through. Here, the melody of meditation ignites to the point of despair, then reaches a form of resignation, illustrated by the modulation of the last verse.

The piano, discreet in the first melody, takes equal place with the voice in the second melody, La Nuit , on the text by Claude Roy. In the poet's dreamlike universe, the two intertwine and weave a fusional bond where Night, as if personified, takes on a human depth, tinged with sensuality. The lyricism of the piano accompanies the voice on its journey and through the contrasting images of snow, sand, sea and jellyfish.

Nuits de Juin , the final melody, unfolds in a summer calm where the senses are heightened in a night as fragrant as it is silent. In a half-tone Adagio, the piano presents a melancholic theme, taken up shortly after by the voice, and which it will be up to him to finish alone, in a postlude of infinite tenderness.

These melodies are a confession of love to the privileged formation of the voice and piano duo, considered since Romanticism as the very grail of intimacy.