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Notes & Reviews:
The friendship between the poet Paul Éluard and the composer Francis Poulenc was more than just an artistic relationship. Éluard wrote to Poulenc, "It was first through your music that I really understood my poems"; and it was first through Éluard that Poulenc learned to express the deepest secrets of his personality.
Éluard paints powerful pictures - a feather consisting of clear water, sweet forests, a lion ruled by a bird that has been wiped away by a cloud - numbering among the finest produced in the French language. Poulenc enhances these pictures with keyboard writing distinguished by pure clarity and first properly highlighting their fascinating radiance.
Holger Falk is the perfect singer for Poulenc's music with his trim baritone voice and special interpretive feel for poetic and compositional nuances and his perfect command of language. Alessandro Zuppardo's fine touch means that the voice is enhanced more than accompanied, and it becomes quite obvious that the two have strictly maintained Poulenc's interpretive prescription: "Don't analyze my music; just love it!"
