Fiançailles pour rire

Fiançailles pour rire (FR) Humorous Engagements. Poulenc's settings (1939) for voice and piano of six poems by Louise de Vilmorin from the collection of the same title. The titles of the individual songs are: »La Dame d'André,« »Dans l'herbe,« »Il vole,« »Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant,« »Violon,« and »Fleurs.« Poulenc's original wish was to write a Vilmorin cycle for Pierre Bernac. He wanted to find poems of hers that were not written with a feminine viewpoint. However, composer Georges…