The Best of Poulenc - 35 Selected Songs

40 Selected Songs for medium voice and piano-Includes a detailed preface and notes on the sources. Different song list for each volume.MEDIUM VOICE (40 Songs) Contents: Le Bestiaire ou Cortège dOrphée (6 songs) (Apollinaire) ? Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire ? Tel jour telle nuit (neuf mélodies) (Eluard) ? Deux Poèmes (Apollinaire) ? Priez pour Paix (d´Orléans) ? LaGrenouillère (Apollinaire) ? Bleuet (Apollinaire) ? Banalités (cinq mélodies) (Apollinaire) ? Chansons villageoises (6 songs) (Frombeure) ? Métamorphoses (de Vilmorin) ? Deux Poèmes (C.) (Aragon) ? Deux Poèmes (Montparnasse) (Apollinaire) ?Rosemonde (Apollinaire) ? Dernier Poème (Desnos).

Pour voix moyenne ou grave et piano-?For as long as there are poets there will be songs. If someone was to put on my tomb: ?Here lies Francis Poulenc musician to Apollinaire and Éluard?: that really would be my finest claim to fame ? the composer declared in 1945. Right from boyhood his attraction to poetry was practically equal to his love of music. And in fact the young Poulenc took to song-writing quite naturally starting in 1919. Poulenc compiled a catalogue of 150 songs a body of works of consistently high quality containing great diversity that marks him out as the last major exponent in this genre. This volume is a selection of Poulenc?s best-known titles in both original and transposed key for highand low voice with new engravings it includes original poems and English translation. This edition belongs to ?Musique vocale française? a series devoted to French vocal repertoire both in original and transposed key designed for students and teachers as well as professionals.