This third instalment in our series encompassing all Faures songs takes its title from the famous Silvestre setting Chanson damour and guides the listener on a journey through the panoply of human emotion. Alongside finely chiselled miniatures we have the early cycle Pome dun jour (to poetry by Grandmougin), the suite from the Shakespeare/Haraucourt drama Shylock (which includes some notable rarities in the form of two-piano arrangements made with Faures blessing by the composer Leon Boellmann), and what is surely the apotheosis of the melodie genre: La bonne chanson. As with preceding volumes, Graham Johnson has employed a range of artiststhe very finest interpreters of French song that could be found. Generous commentaries are provided for each song along with the original poems and English translations.