from Berlioz to the present day
14-Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc
sung by Pierre Bernac (baritone) with Francis Poulenc (piano)
A series of sixteen programmes
Le Travail du Peintre, a song-cycle by Poulenc to poems by Paul Eluard , was first performed at the 1957 Edinburgh International Festival. In each case the music is more representative of the artist's personality than of his style of painting.