French musician Nathalie Stutzmann is a renowned conductor who is currently Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the first female conductor to hold that job. Stutzmann has also had an international career as a contralto singer, and today’s Beautiful Music features her in that role. Nathalie Stutzmann and pianist Catherine Collard perform Claude Debussy’s 5 Poèmes de Baudelaire L. 64, an 1887 song cycle poems taken from Charles Baudelaire’s LES FLEURS DU MAL. You can use the link below to see the five poems Debussy used in both French and English.