Michel Tranchant

First cycle of French songs dedicated to Verlaine's Poèmes saturniens, Bordes' Paysages tristes are an outstanding attempt to implement the cyclical form to vocal repertoire. To this extent, this work...

In 1874 Verlaine published his Songs Without Words; these inspired Charles Bordes' four songs. These pieces are among his most prominent works for voice and piano. Two of them were first performed in...