A toutes brides

A toutes brides (FR) Given Full Rein. Poulenc's setting (1937, Tel jour telle nuit #5) for baritone and piano of part of a poem by Eluard. The words form the second section of a poem called »Intimes« (Intimates), from the Grand air (Great Outdoors) section of Les Yeux fertiles (Fertile Eyes, 1936). »Intimes« was originally titled »Chansons espagnoles« (Spanish Songs) and was written in a café-cabaret in Madrid, where Eluard was in the spring of 1936, with Spanish poets Lorca, José Bergamin…