Le mirage d'Eve

Belgian symbolist poet Charles van Lerberghe wrote La Chanson d’Ève in 1904, then it was set by Gabriel Fauré (Op.95, composition between 1906 and 1910) for the song cycle of the same title.

What if Lerberghe was an artist of today living in this early 21st century ? And if he attempted to create his works on the same theme as La Chanson d’Ève, what and how would he do?
These 2 pieces are based on this imagination. When "La Chanson d’Ève" was written (by him and then by Fauré), it was just before the World War I, the dawn of the dark history 20th century which soon gets to nuclear explosion. Now, are we in the dawn of the 21st century which is darker than the last one or what ?

Composed in 2017/18

released March 15, 2024