Poulenc - La Voix humaine
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Label: Voces8 Records
Cat No: VCM159
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 15th March 2024
Contents
Artists
Paula Sides (soprano)Sergey Rybin (piano)
Works
Fiancailles pour rire (6), FP101La Voix humaine
Artists
Paula Sides (soprano)Sergey Rybin (piano)
About
The centrepiece of the album is Poulenc's short solo opera La Voix humaine ("The Human Voice"), based on the play of the same name by his friend Jean Cocteau. The one-act piece involves a solo singer in a single room with a telephone. The anonymous individual has been abandoned by her lover and reveals that she has attempted to commit suicide. The drama consists of her last conversation with her lover - an intense and sometimes disturbing monologue.
Accompanying La Voix humaine on the album is Poulenc's song cycle Fiançailles pour rire ("Betrothals for Laughs"), his 1939 setting of six poems from the collection of the same name by Louise de Vilmorin.
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