CDH55366 - Disc 1 Track 28 - Toréador - Hyperion Records

Toréador

First line:

Pépita reine de Venise

composer

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

1918; 'Chanson hispano-italienne'

author of text

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Recordings

Poulenc: Voyage à Paris

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

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Details

Richard Jackson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)

Track 28 on CDH55366 [4'30] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Toréador

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Toréador (words by Jean Cocteau, 1889–1963) is the only song that contemporaries agreed the vocally ungifted Poulenc sang better (and more nasally) than anyone else. It is a farrago of Hispanic-Venetian nonsense which powerfully evokes the music-hall. It is the kind of uproarious music that the teenage Poulenc (inspired by Maurice Chevalier) could improvise by the metre; he was to transform such raw material into more subtle evocation in the songs of his maturity.

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Details for CDH55366 track 28

Artists

Richard Jackson (baritone)

Graham Johnson (piano)

ISRC

GB-AJY-86-14728

Duration

4'30

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 28
Release date: January 1989
Deletion date: August 2008
Superseded by CDH55366
Poulenc: Voyage à Paris (CDH55366)
Disc 1 Track 28
Release date: June 2011
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)