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Poulenc - Parisiana
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Special offer. Poulenc: The Complete Songs
Graham Johnson (piano), Ailish Tynan (soprano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Pierre Bernac (narrator), Ben Johnson (tenor), Sarah Fox (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Ivan Ludlow (baritone), Brandon Velarde (baritone), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Robin Tritschler...
The greatest hero of the set remains Graham Johnson himself. As well as writing the booklet notes and organising the whole adventure, Johnson proves himself to be the most sensitive and accomplished... —
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Poulenc: Intégrale des melodies pour voix et piano
Olivier Godin (piano), Julie Fuchs (soprano), Marc Boucher (baritone), Pascale Beaudin (soprano), Francois le Roux (baritone), Helene Guilmette (soprano), Julie Boulianne (mezzo-soprano)
Among French singers, Francois Le Roux has been one of the foremost in revealing the delights and diversity of Poulenc's songs during recent decades. His participation in the five-disc set...is... —
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Williams’s voice, with its smooth production and clear, unforced high notes, is well suited to the French mélodie, while his pronunciation is excellent. The Poulenc and Honegger songs are particularly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 1
Lorna Anderson (soprano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Felicity Lott (soprano), Lisa Milne (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Robert Murray (tenor) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Alongside Malcolm Martineau's searching piano, the singers find a consistent character: considered, spacious, unaffected but cumulatively intense, to the extent that you may need to pause and... —
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Most successful are the Poulenc items, especially the early cycle Le Bestiaire – heard in the composer’s own arrangement of the original for voice and ensemble – to which d’Or brings the appropriate... —
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Poulenc: Mélodies sur des poèmes des poètes divers
Holger Falk (baritone), Alessandro Zuppardo (piano)
Holger Falk’s vocal interpretations are superbly nuanced and avoid histrionic extremes, Alessandro Zuppardo’s accompaniments the summit of refinement and a continuously colourful equal partnership.... —
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Special offer. Poulenc - Songs
Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Felicity Lott (soprano), Urszula Kryger (mezzo-soprano), François Le Roux (baritone) & Pascal Rogé (piano)
Consistently refined and idiomatic performances...Lott is a stylist par excellence and her sympathy for and affinity with the songs of Poulenc is long-standing. —
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A treasure chest of delights, this is a richly inclusive view of Parisian life, of joy and torment, of love lost and found...no praise could be high enough for Pompa-Baldi's pianism, which is... —
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