Ballade des femmes de Paris

Baritone Edward Nelson shares this cheeky confection by Debussy, "Ballade des femmes de Paris,” his second offering from Trois ballades de François Villon. Villon, perhaps the best known French poet of the Middle Ages, led a rather operatic life that included brushes with the law and banishment.

Pianist Robert Mollicone says, "For me, accompanying singers in the sphere of art song is an opportunity to create highly specific microcosms of emotion and storytelling together, using only the tools of text, timbre, and a personal approach to music-making between two people that allows for levels of detail not possible with larger ensembles!”