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Toréador
First line:
Pépita reine de Venise
composer
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
1918; 'Chanson hispano-italienne'
author of text
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Copyright holder as reported by MCPS: Sacem/G Ricordi & Co

Recordings
Cover of 'Poulenc: Voyage à Paris' (CDH55366)
Poulenc: Voyage à Paris
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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CDH55366  Helios (Hyperion's budget label)  
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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.

from notes by Graham Johnson © 1985

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