Le Bal masqué • Rapsodie nègre • Cocardes
Four Poems of Max Jacob • Elégie for horn and piano
Le Bestiaire or Cortège d’Orphée • Sarabande for guitar

‘Francis Poulenc is music itself. I know no music more direct, more simply expressed or going so unerringly to its target.’ This praise from his composer friend, Darius Milhaud, is equalled only by that from Arthur Honegger, rating him a born composer, who ‘amid fashions, systems, prescriptions, has stayed true to himself with that rare courage which demands respect.’ Poulenc himself liked saying: ‘To write what seems right to me, when I want to, that’s my motto as a composer.’ These varied chamber works reflect that thought perfectly.

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‘The music is pure Poulenc: witty, piquant, direct, and delightful … Naxos has gathered a group of outstanding young French musicians who give Poulenc their best. They play-and sing-with great feeling.’

– American Record Guide