La bonne chanson, L'horizon chimérique & Dichterliebe are song cycles. L'horizon chimérique was dedicated to Panzéra, and he premiered it in 1922.

Compact disc.

Originally issued on HMV 78 rpm discs.

Biographical notes about the singer by Alan Blyth, with discographical details (but no song texts), inserted in container.

Recorded at Pathé Marconi, Paris, between 1933 & 1939.

Sung in French, except the Schumann, sung in German.

Singers to remember

En sourdine (words, Verlaine) (3:58) ; Au cimetière (Richepin) (3:30) / Fauré (rec. 1933 ; DB 4903)

La bonne chanson, op. 61 (Verlaine) / Fauré (rec. 1936 ; DB 5020

DB 5022) (21 min.)

L'horizon chimérique, op. 113 (La Ville de Mermont) ) / Fauré (rec. 1937 ; DB 5009) (7 min.)

Extase (Lahor) (2:26) ; Sérénade florentine (Lahor) (1:46) ; L'invitation au voyage (Baudelaire) (3:37) / Duparc (rec. 1939 ; DB 5084)

Lamento (Gautier) (2:52) ; La vie antérieure (Baudelaire) (3:45) / Duparc (rec. 1936 ; DB 5000)

Dichterliebe, op. 48 / Schumann (Heine) (rec. 1935 ; DB 4987

DB 4989) (25 min.).

CDBP 9726 Dutton

DB 4903 HMV

DB 5020--DB 5022 HMV

DB 5009 HMV

DB 5084 HMV

DB 5000 HMV

DB 4987--DB 4989 HMV

Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896 > Musical settings.

La Ville de Mirmont, Jean de, 1886-1914 > Musical settings.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 > Musical settings.

Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 > Musical settings.