Poulenc - Les Chemins de l’Amour / Eun Sun Hong, Cello 홍은선 첼로 & Thomas Hoppe, piano

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Les Chemins de l´amour Poulenc- without much of traditional education in composition - combined French musical qualities of elegance, wittiness and an exquisite feeling for sound with a very personal style of neoclassicism. The charme of this song, written in 1940 (the year of France´s capitulation to Hitler´s Germany) is its haunting melodic quality, a certain melancholy and, at the same time, a true Parisian “joie de vivre“. Eun Sun Hong, violoncello Thomas Hoppe, piano recorded live at Atheneum Bucharest, Romania / Enescu Festival