Nuage

Nuage (FR) Cloud. Poulenc's setting (1956) for voice and piano of a poem by Laurence de Beylié from Lueurs (Flashes, 1968). Poulence writes (20 September 1956): » When my friend the Countess Pastré sent me a typed copy of this poem a year ago, without an author's name on it, I at once put it aside into the file where . . . It's with genuine pleasure that I come today to set it to music, because its resonances are delicate and multiple. / This time, it was Mother Mary herself who gave the song…