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Track(s) taken from SIGCD323

La puce

First line:
Puces, amis, amantes même
composer
9 November 1960; to the memory of Raoul Dufy; first published in Marcelle Oury's anthology Lettres à mon peintre
author of text
from Le bestiaire

Thomas Oliemans (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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Recording details: June 2012
All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom
Produced by John H West & Andrew Mellor
Engineered by Andrew Mellor
Release date: September 2013
Total duration: 0 minutes 56 seconds
 

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Brandon Velarde (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Reviews

'There are some excellent performances … the sound is also very good—close and clear with a pleasant bloom' (MusicWeb International)» More

'Throughout Martineau is impressive as an imaginative and supportive accompanist. And he is joined by some fine performers. There are some gems on the disc' (Planet Hugill)
This is perhaps the least known and least substantial of Poulenc’s songs, as well as his last setting from Le bestiaire and his last Apollinaire setting of all—forty-two years after the first. It was written in homage to the memory of the painter Raoul Dufy (1877–1953) who had made the woodcuts that had illustrated Apollinaire’s first published book in 1918, the selfsame Le bestiaire. The song was published posthumously in 1965 in Marcelle Oury’s anthology in tribute to Dufy, Lettres à mon peintre.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 2013

Other albums featuring this work

Poulenc: The Complete Songs
CDA68021/44CDs Boxed set (at a special price)
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