The Story of Babar, the little elephant (French and English versions)
L’Invitation au Château – incidental music
Léocadia – incidental music

Poulenc’s association with the contemporary French theatre is shown in his incidental music to two plays by Jean Anouilh, the first known to English audiences as Ring Round the Moon and the second, less familiar, as Time Remembered. His witty musical version of Jean de Brunhoff’s tale of Babar the Little Elephant is included in its original French and in English.

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‘The narrators are two gifted children, the pianist Alexandre Tharaud, whose acute playing has sparked the series.’

– Turok’s Choice