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Poulenc - Deux poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire
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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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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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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: Songs after Poems of Guillame Apollinaire
Holger Falk (baritone), Alessandro Zuppardo (piano)
Right from the aplomb with which he negotiates an unintentionally ironic phrase seconds after the start - it translates as 'If by misfortune I had been German' - he has the agile lightness of... —
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The first time Michel Piquemal met Pierre Bernac, for whom most of these songs were written, Piquemal recalls that Bernac said: 'I am very moved, because what you're doing is exactly what Francis... —
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The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 2
with Malcolm Martineau (piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Felicity Lott (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Lorna Anderson (soprano), Lisa Milne (soprano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone)
These singers have come up with some of the most absorbing recorded experiences of a composer who, for all his unmistakable voice, had an extraordinarily broad range of expression and poetic... —
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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... —
