With Donald Macleod.

Soon after his release from the army in 1921, the composer collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Raymond Radiguet on the "buffo comedy" Le Gendarme Incompris. Poulenc later destroyed it, although it was rediscovered 25 years after his death. He also formed the most important musical partnership of his life with baritone Pierre Bernac, with whom he was to perform around the world for the next quarter of a century.

L'Embarquement pour Cythere Pascal Roge and Jean-Philippe Collard (pianos)

Le Gendarme Incompris (excerpt) Dominique Visse (contralto), Francois le Roux (baritone), French National Orchestra Soloists, conductor Charles Dutoit

Invocation to the Fates; The Beauty of Youth (Chansons Gaillardes, Nos 4, 7) Pierre Bernac (baritone), Francis Poulenc (piano)

Aubade Francois-Rene Duchable (piano), Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor James Conlon

Le Bal Masque Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Members of the Saito Kinen Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa