Singing Poulenc in a sauna
Some composers are more obviously warm-blooded than others, and though you might dispute who comes low down in the temperature scale (Telemann? Boulez?) it would be hard to deny that Poulenc, the least...
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Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmélites (currently presented in a production by Robert Carsen at Covent Garden) is an intense study of The Order versus The Terror – how faith survives under...
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