Poulenc: The Complete Songs, Vol. 2

The songs of Francis Poulenc (some 150 works composed over a period of 44 years) remain consistently popular with concert audiences the world over. Varying in their individual style and character in a way that defies generalization, Poulenc set music to a wide range of different French poetry—both ancient and modern, and from the serious to the surreal.

This series charting the complete songs of Francis Poulenc is performed by some of the greatest singers of the day and accompanied by the exceptional Malcolm Martineau.

SIGCD263 72 minutes 12 seconds

'This is very much the mixture as before in the first of Signum's projected cycle of the complete Poulenc songs … Lorna Anderson sings delightfully the three Lorca songs, very simple in their lyr ...
'This second volume of a projected complete survey of Poulenc's songs 'a delightful prospect' begins with one of his earliest and longest examples, the waltz-song Toreador, which Poulenc described as ...