Papillon et la fleur

Fauré’s Rêve d’amour and Le Papillon et la fleur (also from Chants du Crépuscule) are among his earliest Hugo settings. Of the two, although it was written a year earlier “in the school refectory among the smells from the kitchen”, Le Papillon et la fleur is the more entertaining in its waltz-time tunefulness and, in its delicately flighty, even fragrant piano part, the more promising.