Natalie Dessay: Fiançailles Pour Rire ( Poulenc Violon)

Album out September 2015. For their second album together, soprano Natalie Dessay and pianist Philippe Cassard have adopted the title of Francis Poulencs song cycle Fiançailles pour rire (A betrothal for fun). Poulencs compact, charming and touching cycle, composed in 1939 to poems by Louise de Vilmorin, is heard alongside some of the bestloved mélodies in the repertoire.