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Deux Poèmes de Louis Aragon
composer
1943
author of text
Recordings
'Poulenc: The Complete Songs' (CDA68021/4)
Poulenc: The Complete Songs
CDA68021/4  4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs To be issued soon October 2013 Release  
'Poulenc: Voyage à Paris' (CDH55366)
Details
No 1: C  J'ai traversé les ponts de Cé
Track 19 on CDA68021/4 CD2 [3'17] 4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs To be issued soon October 2013 Release
Track 24 on CDH55366 [3'08] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
No 2: Fêtes galantes  On voit des marquis sur des bicyclettes
Track 20 on CDA68021/4 CD2 [1'04] 4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs To be issued soon October 2013 Release
Track 25 on CDH55366 [0'52] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
Deux Poèmes de Louis Aragon
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The Deux Poèmes de Louis Aragon are perfect Poulenc. In C, Louis Aragon (1897–1982) sees the fall of France into German hands in 1940 as the sorry outcome of centuries of false values and a patriotism that had been based on class exploitation. On paper the words can seem bitter and angry, but Poulenc finds the heartbreak in them: Marxist poet and château-dwelling composer (Poulenc owned a beautiful country house at Noizay near Tours) are united in song by a common French birthright. Fêtes galantes is an antidote to too much nationalistic self-pity. The nation that produced the coolly elegant courtiers of Watteau’s ‘Fêtes galantes’ in the reign of Louis XV, now finds itself in complete disarray with the onslaught of the Nazi invaders. There is not much elegance left in the French comedy of manners, but even if manners are thrown out of the window, comedy remains. Life under the occupation changed many things, but the institution of the cabaret song, sung at full tilt, vulgar and poetic at the same time, could never be anything but defiantly, irrepressibly French.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 1985

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Details for CDH55366 track 24
C
Artists
ISRC
GB-AJY-86-14724
Duration
3'08
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
  1. Poulenc: Voyage à Paris (CDA66147)
    Disc 1 Track 24
    Release date: January 1989
    Deletion date: August 2008
    Superseded by CDH55366
  2. Poulenc: Voyage à Paris (CDH55366)
    Disc 1 Track 24
    Release date: June 2011
    Helios (Hyperion's budget label)
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