Banalités

Banalités (FR) Banalities. Poulenc's settings (1940) for voice and piano of five poems by Apollinaire gathered from various revues and published in Il y a (There Is, 1925, posth.) and the prose piece from L'Enchanteur Pourissant (The Decaying Magician, 1909) »Onirocritique«(The Ability to Interpret Dreams, 1908). The titles of the individual songs are: »Chanson d'Orkenise,« »Hôtel,« »Fagnes de Wallonie,« »Voyage à Paris,« and »Sanglots.« Poulenc writes: » Once again, it's on Apollinaire that I…