This is a charming Berceuse - really more of a lullaby by the french composer Henri Sauguet, He was of the generation just behind Le Six and although he lived a long time and was very prolific he has rather disappeared from view.
I remember hearing this on the radio some years ago (I think in a programme introduced by Jeremy Nicholas , though I might be wrong on that) and was utterly enchanted by its simplicity but also but the piquancy of the harmony. I can't find a copy of the text on line, but it is a bed time song to a child from its mother , who is looking out over the sea and watching the birds and the boats fly away. It was written in Madagascar and actually comes from an opera le plumet du colonel
I don't think that I have ever heard another note of Sauguet's music, although there are published recordings and other extracts on YouTube so I really ought to find out more about him.
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