A visit to the East – both Far and Near – with Ravel and his poet friend Tristan Klingsor (aka Léon Leclère) – Shéhérazade:
00:43 Asie
10:32 La flûte enchantée
13:39 L’indifférent
And to a distinctly erotic version of ancient Greece courtesy of Debussy and Pierre Louÿs – Trois Chanson de Bilitis:
00:05 La Flûte de Pan (The Flute of Pan)
02:52 La Chevelure (The Hair)
06:02 Le Tombeau des Naïades (The Tomb of the Naiads)
As a (partial) antidote to all that sensuality, Pierre Bernac and the composer perform Poulenc’s setting of Guillaume Apollinaire, Le Bestiaire:
I Le dromadaire 0.00
II La chèvre du Tibet 1.11
III La sauterelle 1.55
IV Le dauphin 2.21
V L’écrevisse 2.51
VI La carpe 3.33
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Pontarddulais!
The Art of Listening 