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?Debussy�s song cycle Ariettes oubli�es of 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine�s collection Romances sans paroles, beginning with C�est l�extase and Il pleure dans mon c�ur � penetratingly poetic images of love�s ecstasy and rainlike tears of despair. The six Ariettes are the departure point for the arrangement realized in 2012 by British composer Robin Holloway in response to a request from the San Francisco Symphony. Holloway has altered their order while adding a further four Debussy songs, binding the whole work together with brief orchestral links and a feverish epilogue, �con moto agitato�. This world first recording is given by French soprano Vannina Santoni, with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under the baton of Mikko Franck. The Finnish conductor, a great admirer of Debussy, here also presents the master�s bewitching masterpiece La mer, first heard in Paris in 1905.