Joan Miró

Joan Miró Poulenc's setting (1956, Le Travail du peintre #6) for voice and piano of the 31st poem by Eluard from the Nouveaux Poèmes (New Poems) section of Capitale de la douleur (Capital of Sorrow, 1926). Poulenc writes: » This is the hardest one to interpret, with its sudden passage from the strident and brilliant to gentleness and lyricism at the words ›les libellules des raisins.‹ The ›céder beaucoup‹ on ›que je dissipe d'un geste‹ and the return to tempo can't be explained, one must feel…