Le Cygne, Song for Soprano Voice and Piano

The start is slightly cut off, apologies.
 In complement to Harold J. Smith’s review of Mallarmé’s “Le Vierge, le vivace…” the song is about a swan caught in ice, yearning to be free. Symbolising the spiritual frustration, the composition imbues every bar with the elements of the swan, from the static and isolated piano to the lamenting soprano voice.