Richard Burton, Francis Poulenc, Absolute Press, 2002, 114 p. Amazing work by an English author which charts the paradoxical links between Poulenc’s late discovery of Catholicism and his homosexuality. Book available on...
Franck Ferraty, La musique pour piano de Francis Poulenc, ou le temps de l’ambivalence, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2009, 316 p. [F] Erudite in style and drawing on a psychoanalytic approach, Franck Ferrati builds an interesting thesis. Early traumas, bipolar...
Pierre Bernac, Francis Poulenc et ses mélodies, Paris, Buchet-Chastel, 1978, 220 p. [F] In English Francis Poulenc: The man and his songs, Kahn & Averill, 2006. In 1978 Bernac decided to write this account from his enormous knowledge of the songs, the majority...
Dialogues des Carmélites, Paris, L’Avant Scène Opéra, 2010. [F] Everything you ever wanted to know about the Dialogues. The conception, the orchestration, first performances with Denise Duval, Bernanos’ text. Book available on...
Alban Ramaut, Francis Poulenc et la voix, Lyon, Symétrie, 2005, 336 p. [F] A very interesting musicological study of Poulenc’s relationship with the voice (songs, choral and operatic works). Book available on...
Poulenc: Music, Art and Literature, edited by Sidney Buckland & Myriam Chimènes, Farnham, Ashgate, 1999, 409 p. This selection of essays translated into English covers such subjects as the links between Poulenc, Matisse and dufy, the birth of the Dialogues, the...
