4: The Second World War.
Donald Macleod looks at Poulenc's work during the late thirties and the war, when the composer moved back towards the Catholicism of his childhood. The cantata
La Figure Humaine grew out of Poulenc's increasing frustration with the Nazi's wartime occupation of Paris, but for much of the time the composer stayed at his country house at Noizay.
Tel Jour, Telle Nuit Francois le Roux (baritone), Pascal Roge (piano)
Mass in G The Choir of Westminster
Cathedral, conductor James O'Donnell Les Mamelles de Tiresias (excerpt)
Barbara Bonney (soprano),
Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Tokyo Opera Singers, Saito Kinen Orchestra, conductor Seiji Ozawa