C'est le joli printemps

C'est le joli printemps (FR) It Is Beautiful Springtime. Poulenc's setting (1942, Chansons villageoises #3) for voice and orchestra (or piano) of a poem from A dos d'oiseau: »Chansons de la grande hune« (Bird's-Eye View: »Songs of the Great Watch Platform,« 1945), the fifth poem in the »Chansons de la petite terre« (Songs of the Little Earth) division within it, by Fombeure. Poulenc writes that the song must be »sung and played as clearly and sadly as an April day.« The song is dedicated to…