Poulenc: The Complete Songs, Vol. 3

The songs of Francis Poulenc (some 150 works composed over a period of 44 years) remain consistently popular with 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 series charting the complete songs of Francis Poulenc is performed by some of the greatest singers of the day and accompanied by the exceptional Malcolm Martineau.

SIGCD272  61 minutes 56 seconds
'This is very much the mixture as before in the first of Signum's projected cycle of the complete Poulenc songs. The team of British singers accompanied by Malcolm Martineau is the same as before, the ...
'This is the third volume in the impressive coverage of all Poulenc's songs masterminded by the superb pianist Malcolm Martineau … the present set any slight piano dominance comes from the sheer ...