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Fiançailles pour rire - Laurent Naouri (baritone); Natalie Dessay (soprano); Philippe Cassard (piano); Quatuor Ébène
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  1. Après un rêve ("Dans un sommeil"), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1
  2. En sourdine, song for voice & piano, Op. 58/2 (Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise')
  3. Mandoline, song for voice & piano, Op. 58/1 (Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise')
  4. Clair de lune, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) in B flat minor, Op. 46/2
  5. Prison, song for voice & piano in E flat minor, Op. 83/1
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  1. Après un rêve ("Dans un sommeil"), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1
  2. En sourdine, song for voice & piano, Op. 58/2 (Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise')
  3. Mandoline, song for voice & piano, Op. 58/1 (Cinq Mélodies 'de Venise')
  4. Clair de lune, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) in B flat minor, Op. 46/2
  5. Prison, song for voice & piano in E flat minor, Op. 83/1
  6. Spleen, for voice & piano in D minor, Op. 51/3
  7. Chanson pour Jeanne, for voice & piano
  8. Fiançailles pour rire, song cycle for voice & piano, FP 101
  9. Colloque, for soprano, baritone & piano, FP 108
  10. Trois poèmes de Louise de Vilmorin, for voice & piano, FP 91
  11. Chanson perpétuelle, for soprano & orchestra (or piano quintet), Op. 37
  12. Le Colibri, for voice & piano, Op. 2/7
  13. Le Temps de Lilas, for voice & piano (included in "Poème de l'amour et de la mer")
  14. Au pays où se fait la guerre, song for voice & piano (or orchestra)
  15. Soupir ("Ne jamais la voir"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 2/1
  16. Extase ("Sur un lys pâle"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)
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Fiançailles pour rire (roughly, Betrothal for Kicks) is the title of a set of short songs composed in 1939 by Francis Poulenc and included in this recital by soprano Natalie Dessay and her exquisite accompanist Philippe Cassard. That group of songs, and the extremely stylized graphics of the album, correspond well enough to the implications of the title, but for the most part the program is not especially lighthearted. What you get here is a little survey of French songs, mostly not so well known, concluding with Heni ...

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