Poulenc: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2

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Label: SIGNUM RECORDS
Catalog: SIGCD263
Format: CD

Lisa Milne, soprano; Lorna Anderson, soprano; Robert Murray, tenor; Felicity Lott, soprano; Christopher Maltman, baritone; Jonathan Lemalu, bass-baritone;
Malcolm Martineau, piano

Poulenc
Toréador - Chanson hispano-italienne [CM] / Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne [FL] / Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire [RM] / Trois chansons de Federico Garcia-Lorca [LA] / Paul et Virginie [CM] / Nuage [LM] / Hymne [JL] / Ce doux petit visage [LA] / Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon [LA] / Priez pour paix [RM] / Tel jour telle nuit [FL] / La tragique histoire du petit René [JL] / Le petit garçon trop bien portant [LA] / Le travail du peintre [CM] / Les chemins de l'amour [FL]

Composing over 150 works for piano and voice over a period of 44 years, the songs of Francis Poulenc remain consistently popular to concert audiences the world over. Varying in their individual style and character in a way that defies generalization, Poulenc set music to a wide range of different French poetry - both ancient and modern, and from the serious to the surreal.
This second release in a new series charts the complete songs of Francis Poulenc, performed by some of the greatest singers of the day and accompanied by the exceptional Malcolm Martineau.

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