Benjamin Charavner sent out some extracts from the show I mentioned a few weeks ago, Mr. Lear Show-Case; the recording, as he notes, is not high quality, but acceptable: “c’est juste une photo sonore d’un moment qui fut, pour tout le monde, réjouissant.”

The piece will be performed again on 13 February at the “Combustibles” (“chouette salle de concert vers le ‘Baron Rouge’,” for those in Paris at the time).

Here are the five songs:

Brussels
Cold are the Crabs
Oh! Pan!
The Akond of Swat
The Umbrella-Maker