 | from Poulenc: The Complete Songs (CDA68021/4) 1 La maîtresse volage [0'41] 11 minutes 20 seconds 8 tracks2 Chanson à boire [2'15] 3 Madrigal [0'35] 4 Invocation aux Parques [1'26] 5 Couplets bachiques [1'26] 6 L'offrande [0'56] 7 La belle jeunesse [1'46] 8 Sérénade [2'15] ‘Johnson's playing is marvellous, virtuosic where needed, but above all attuned to every nuance of his singers. This really is a multifaceted release: the blending of the art forms that was characteri ...  The Guardian‘Especially enjoyable is the final disc, subtitled Fancy. Soprano Susan Bickley is superb in Poulenc’s early Poèmes de Ronsard—sparky settings of Renaissance poetry, and Ashley Riches has fun w ... |