French Art Song Collections

This collection of the most beautiful songs by Erik Satie is part of Musique vocale française, a series designed for students, teachers, and professional singers which includes the best French vocal

Poulenc compiled a catalog of 150 songs that contains great diversity. This volume is part of "Musique vocale francaise," a series devoted to French vocal repertoire - both in original and transposed key -

Numbering more than 100 in total, and composed across a 60 year period, Gabriel Faure's songs form the single most influential contribution to the field of French art songs. Despite their importance, the

Lauridsen, Morten. Poem By Rilke Published by Peer Music, New York. Copyright 1995. The work is adapted and arranged from Les Chansons Des Roses, a choral cycle based on poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.

While the title is French for "Eight Flower Songs," the texts are all in English. The poems' flowers metaphorically evoke fragrance, love and loss, life and death, rebirth and regrowth. This 20-minute song

"For as long as there are poets there will be songs" the composer declared in 1945. Poulenc produced a catalog of 150 chansons, a body of works of quality and diversity that marks him as the last major