 | from Poulenc: Figure humaine & other choral works (SIGCD197) 1 De tous les printemps du monde [2'45] 19 minutes 23 seconds 8 tracks2 En chantant les servantes s'élancent [2'05] 3 Aussi bas que le silence [1'34] 4 Toi ma patiente [1'58] 5 Riant du ciel et des planètes [1'00] 6 Le jour m'étonne et la nuit me fait peur [1'42] 7 La menace sous le ciel rouge [3'49] 8 LIBERTÉ [4'30] 'The awards jury says … Poulenc's Figure Humaine makes extreme demands on ensemble and intonation, as plenty of commercial recordings can prove. Nigel Short's Tenebrae is astonishing, and ... 'Poulenc rediscovered the Roman Catholicism of his childhood when a close friend was killed in a road accident in 1936. A pilgrimage to Rocamadour in the Pyrenees led to his composing the Litanies ... |