Chantefleurs et Chantefables is a song cycle for soprano and orchestra set to the poems of Robert Desnos[1] by the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski.
[2] The piece is Lutosławski's second composition set to the poetry of Robert Desnos, following 1975's Les Espaces du sommeil.
Andrew Clements of The Guardian described the composition as "a series of tiny epigrammatic settings inhabiting a child-like surrealist world, which Lutosławski illuminates with wonderful precision.
"[14] Keith Potter of BBC Music Magazine compared the piece to Lutosławski's Chain 1, observing that they are "so exquisite that they verge on the precious.
"[15] The composer Russell Platt similarly described it as "one of the most gracious and affecting works of Lutosławski's last years.