Siméon's Recitative and Aria

Faites silence!... Ecoutez tous!...
Allez par les champs, allez sur la place;
Frappez la cymbale et le tambourin!
Dites en mon nom à celui qui passe:
"Plus de vains soucis, plus de noir chagrin,
Que tout soit en joie!
Le ciel nous envoie un bienfait à peine rêvé:
Celui que sans cesse pleurait ma vieillesse,
L'enfant prodigue est retrouvé!"
Remplissez l'amphore, tuez le veau gras!...
Puisque avant de mourir je te revois encore,
Viens, mons fils, dans mes bras!...

by Édouard Guinand (1838-?)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) , "Siméon's Recitative and Aria", from L'enfant prodigue, no. 2.

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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