CDH55366 - Disc 1 Track 8 - Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne - Hyperion Records

Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne

First line:

Les myrtilles sont pour la dame

composer

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

1931

Recordings

Poulenc: The Complete Songs
Graham Johnson (piano)

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Poulenc: Voyage à Paris
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Details

No 1: Le présent Si tu veux je te donnerai

author of text
Marie Laurencin (1885-1956)

Ailish Tynan (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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No 2: Chanson Les myrtilles sont pour la dame

author of text
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

Ailish Tynan (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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No 3: Hier Hier, c'est ce chapeau fané

author of text
Marie Laurencin (1885-1956)

Ailish Tynan (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

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Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne

EnglishFrançais

Among the earliest Poulenc mélodies are Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne. Apollinaire chose this name in order to masquerade as a female poet in the pages of the literary review Marges. Montparnasse laziness got the better of him however, and he rifled through the literary jottings of his mistress in order to find something suitably feminine to meet his publishing deadline. Apollinaire’s loving collaborator was none other than the painter Marie Laurencin (1885–1956; a painting by her is on the cover of this booklet) who designed the costumes and sets for Poulenc’s first great success, the ballet Les Biches, presented by Diaghilev in 1924. Laurencin had been enthusiastically ‘discovered’ by Apollinaire in his role as influential art critic. In this song-set only the whirlwind nonsense of Chanson is by him. Le présent (where Poulenc is influenced by the implacable last movement of Chopin’s B flat minor Sonata) and Hier are Laurencin’s words. Hier is the first of Poulenc’s mélodies to employ the lyrical vein in which so many of his best songs were to be written. By 1931 when it was composed, Poulenc’s roaring twenties were behind him. The clown and ragamuffin shows in this song that he is capable of melancholy things, and he chooses the style of a smoke-filled room of a Paris boîte (the ghost of Piaf’s predecessor, Marie Dubas, hovers) to make his tender revelation.

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Details for CDH55366 track 8

Chanson

Artists

Dame Felicity Lott (soprano)

Graham Johnson (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-86-14708

Duration

0'35

Recording date

16 February 1984

Recording venue

St George the Martyr, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Martin Compton

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Poulenc: Voyage à Paris (CDA66147)
Disc 1 Track 8
Release date: January 1989
Deletion date: August 2008
Superseded by CDH55366
Poulenc: Voyage à Paris (CDH55366)
Disc 1 Track 8
Release date: June 2011
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)