Something that The Amazing Devil does so beautiful is that even though a lot of their songs are very wordy they don't rush or skip over the rests in-between. And my favorite examples of this are Elsa's Song and Old Witch Sleep/Good Man Grace, because in old with/good man the beggining is so nice because they put so much pauses between each phrase and even parts like the "Sleep now, oh, she said" there is this smallest rest between the "Now" and "Oh" and it's so subtle but if you don't do that rest it's very very noticeable because your just slurring these two (almost) very short phrases of their own. Then in Elsa's Song l love how the tempo and when they come in, is almost dragging, they are coming in at the very last second of the beat and it makes the tone of the song so so so good
Duo des fleurs. Lakmé, Léo Delibes (old recording, c. 1915)
Maria Alexandrovna Mikhailova (1864–1943) (soprano, interpreting Lakmé) and Antonina Ivanovna Panina (1870–1941) (mezzo-soprano, interpreting Mallika), with orchestra, circa 1915.
Flowers (even a duet) for Léo Delibes, born on this day in 1836.