Francis Poulenc Concertos

1. Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra in D minor, FP 61
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Aarhus Symphony Orchestra with Ingryd Thorson , Julian Thurber
Conducted by Frans Rasmussen

2. Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8
Composed by Francis Poulenc
with Ingryd Thorson , Julian Thurber

3. Capriccio for 2 pianos (after Le bal Masqué), FP 155
Composed by Francis Poulenc
with Ingryd Thorson , Julian Thurber

4. Élégie (en accords alternés), for 2 pianos, FP 175
Composed by Francis Poulenc
with Ingryd Thorson , Julian Thurber

5. L'embarquement pour Cythère, valse-musette for 2 pianos (from film, Le voyage en Amérique), FP 150
Composed by Francis Poulenc
with Ingryd Thorson , Julian Thurber

6. Sonata for 2 pianos, FP 156
Composed by Francis Poulenc
with Ingryd Thorson , Julian Thurber

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Poulenc: Concertos, Gloria, Stabat Pommier , Queffelec , Cole , Weir , Dubosc , Hickox , and City of London Sinfonia Manufacturer: Angel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001ZM8UE Release Date: 2005-07-18

Tracks:

1. Concerto Pour Piano & Orchestre
2. Concert Champetre (Pour Clavecin & Orchestre)
3. Concerto Pour Orgue, Orchestre A Cordes & Timbales
4. Concerto Pour 2 Pianos & Orchestre
5. Aubade
6. Sinfonietta
7. Gloria
8. Stabat Mater
9. Litanies A La Vierge Noire
10. Figure Humaine
11. Quatro Motets Pour Un Temps De Penitence
12. Laudres De Saint Antoine De Padoue
13. Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel
14. Quatre Petites Prieres De Saint Francois D'assise
15. Salve Regina
16. Ave Verum Corpus
17. Exultate Deo
18. Messe En Sol Majeur
19. Un Soir De Neige
20. Chansons Francaises
21. Chanson A Boire
22. Sept Chansons

Average customer rating: These Will Lift Anyone's Spirits

French Concertos for Two Pianos Manufacturer: Cpo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Milhaud | Milhaud, Darius | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00068CVTY Release Date: 2004-11-16

Album Description

The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra by Francis Poulenc, composed in 1932, is clearly one of the most popular works of this relatively rare genre. Poulenc's love for the classical composers, especially for Mozart, is in abundant evidence here. Brilliantly sparkling wit, pointedness, and virtuosity make this concerto a listening feast. The Genova & Dimitrov Piano Duo presents this work on this new CD featuring three works of French provenance, since Darius Milhaud and Robert Casadesus also wrote double piano concertos. What unites the three composers is a shared aesthetic standpoint deeply rooted in neoclassicism, and what Milhaud described as the ingredients of his music applies to all three works on this spirited CD: "Clarity, soberness, lightness, moderate romanticism, sense for the proportions of the outlines, and aspiration to express oneself clearly, simply, and succinctly." Voilà, the recipe for brilliant entertainment can be so easy!

Customer Reviews:

These Will Lift Anyone's Spirits.......2004-12-09

What a wonderful idea someone at cpo had--to record the three most famous French concertos for two pianos and orchestra, those of Poulenc, Milhaud and Robert Casadesus. I'm almost certain these three works have never appeared together before, although each has been recorded separately. The three works share a sensibility that is unmistakably twentieth-century French. But they also have stylistic differences that are immediately apparent. The 1932 Poulenc concerto has a brash wit that is unique to him, but it also shows a side of him that helps, these days, to make him one of France's most popular composers (and, I'm old enough to remember when Poulenc was considered a complete lightweight) and that's the middle movement, one of almost childlike, even Mozartean, simplicity that has the ability to tug at one's emotions. The outer movements are classically designed but impart a spirit of the boulevardier that mark them out as Poulenc at his naughtiest. I wouldn't want to give up my old LP of Poulenc and his longtime friend, Pierre Dervaux, playing this concerto, with Georges Prêtre conducting (which I believe is available as a remastered CD), but I must say that Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov do an equally fine job and in modern sound.

Robert Casadesus is remembered, of course, primarily as a very fine pianist--indeed, he was included in the 200 CD Philips 'Great Pianists of the Twentieth Century' collection--but he was also a good composer, in a neoclassic French style. He wrote this concerto for him and his wife, Gaby, to play; they premièred it in Warsaw in 1934 and they recorded it later. I knew and loved that recording but I don't think it has ever made it to CD. The work is in Casadesus's fairly easily recognizable style that features fluid jeu des perles fingerwork and modal harmonies. There are many lightning fast scalar passages for the pianists in tight thirds and sixths that make one gasp, in this recording, at the almost inhuman synchronization required. The second movement, almost Ravelian in its reticence, features a rocking motion and an oh-so-French oboe solo (and the SWR Rundfunk Orchestra's principal oboist manages to sound like a French player here). The finale has a dance-inflected ostinato that underpins intentionally awkward-sounding presto figures in fourths for the pianists. The harmonies give the piece an ancient feel while still imparting a twentieth-century impatience. All done with admirable wit.

For me, the most endearing of these concerti (much as I love the other two) is the Milhaud. It has been widely recorded and is occasionally heard in concert. Well known duos like the Contiguglia brothers and the Labecque sisters have played it widely. My favorite recording up to now has been that of James Anagnoson and Leslie Kinton on the CBC label. But this performance trumps them, I believe. First, there are the marvelously tuned and regulated pianos; the recorded sound is fabulous. Then there is the hair-trigger accompaniment provided by Alun Francis and his radio orchestra from Kaiserslauten. There isn't anything I don't like about this performance. But especially I respond to the extra pizzazz given Milhaud's trademarked excursions into Brazilian rhythms--thank goodness for that trip he took to Brazil with Paul Claudel in 1918--and I expect you, like I, may be making like Carmen Miranda during those passages. There are also some harmonies I'd swear Milhaud stole from Gershwin; well maybe they were simply in the air and after all he had written the jazzy 'Le Création du Monde' and 'La Boeuf sur le Toit' twenty years earlier. The second movement, which is a good deal more serious, even melancholy, has always moved me. I am intrigued by the booklet writer's speculation that it reflects Milhaud's feelings of being confined to a wheelchair by his arthritis. Whatever the facts, it does convey a kind of heavy sadness that I respond to, and yet I'm always able afterwards to feel the urge to leap out of my chair and dance to the third movements whirlwind rhythms.

Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov is a team I'd not encountered before. They are Aglika Genova and Liuben Dimitrov and apparently came together in Hanover in 1995. A look on the Internet tells me they have made a number of other recordings before this one. They certainly have the goods.

Recommended. As I said in the title of this review, these performances will lift your spirits.

TT:54'14

Scott Morrison

Average customer rating: Poulenc Performed with Zest and Drama

Poulenc: Piano & Organ Concertos Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Dutoit, Laurence | ( D ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Rogi, Pascal | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000420Z Release Date: 1994-04-05

Tracks:

1. Piano Concerto: l Allegretto - Pascal Roge
2. Piano Concerto: ll Andonte con moto - Pascal Roge
3. Piano Concerto: lll Rondeau a la francaise - Pascal Roge
4. Concerto for Two Pianos: l Allegro ma non troppo - Sylviane Deferne/Pascal Roge
5. Concerto for Two Pianos: ll Larghetto - Sylviane Deferne/Pascal Roge
6. Concerto for Two Pianos: lll Finale; Allegro molto - Sylviane Deferne/Pascal Roge
7. Organ Concerto: Andante-
8. Organ Concerto: Allegro giocoso-
9. Organ Concerto: Subito andante moderato-
10. Organ Concerto: Tempo allegro, molto agitato-
11. Organ Concerto: Tres calme. Lent-
12. Organ Concerto:Tempo de l'allegro initial-
13. Organ Concerto:Tempo introduction. Largo

Customer Reviews:

Poulenc Performed with Zest and Drama.......2006-03-25

Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) enjoys an audience for his works for the stage and for the solo piano but his grander works are usually reserved for special 'theme events' by our orchestras. This recording repairs that omission by offering three disparate works for solo instrument and orchestra. And the performances are first rate!

Pascal Roge delivers the 'Piano Concerto in C sharp minor' with all the ping and tongue in cheek fun so identified with Poulenc's music. He is joined by Charles Dutoit conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra of London in a collaborative event that respects the surging melodic statements so often missing in Poulenc's concerto performances. Much the same can be said for the less often performed 'Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra in D minor', a brief but stunning work here played by Pascal Roge and Sylviane Deferne.

The dramatic and showy 'Concerto for organ, strings & timpani in G minor' is a given a grand performance by Peter Hurford with Dutoit and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London recorded in St. Albans Cathedral with all the ambient sound the work requires. It is a beautifully realized climax to this very fine CD. Recommended. Grady Harp, March 06

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Poulenc: Concertos; Orchestral & Choral Works Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Harpsichord | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Carl Nielsen, Orchestral Music Taneyev: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 Stravinsky: Pulcinella; The Fairy's Kiss Stravinsky: Three Greek Ballets (Apollo, Agon, Orpheus) Planet Earth - The Complete BBC Series ASIN: B000OPPSWQ Release Date: 2007-05-15

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Concertos for Two Pianos Manufacturer: Bridge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Milhaud | Milhaud, Darius | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000PHW1EQ Release Date: 2007-05-08

Average customer rating: Warning all trumpet players

Shostakovich & Poulenc: Concertos Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 Bernstein Conducts Shostakovich Leonard Bernstein: The Royal Edition (Holst: The Planets; Barber: Adagio for Strings; Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Military March No. 1) ASIN: B0000027NQ Release Date: 1993-09-21

Tracks:

1. Con No.1 in c, Op. 35: I. Allegretto - Allegro Vivace - Andre Previn/William Vacchiano
2. Con No.1 in c, Op. 35: II. Lento - Andre Previn/William Vacchiano
3. Con No.1 in c, Op. 35: III. Moderato - Andre Previn/William Vacchiano
4. Con No.1 in c, Op. 35: IV. Allegro Con Brio - Andre Previn/William Vacchiano
5. Con No.2 in F, Op. 102: I. Allegro - Leonard Bernstein
6. Con No.2 in F, Op. 102: II. Andante - Leonard Bernstein
7. Con No.2 in F, Op. 102: III. Allegro - Leonard Bernstein
8. Con in d: I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo - Arthur Gold/Robert Fizdale
9. Con in d: II. Larghetto - Arthur Gold/Robert Fizdale
10. Con in d: III. Finale. Allegro Molto - Arthur Gold/Robert Fizdale

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Shostakovich's two Piano Concertos lack the seriousness of this four concertos for violin or cello. The first is actually a "double" concerto, having an important part for solo trumpet. It's an early but expertly written work sharing the same musical climate as the First Symphony. The Second Concerto was created for the composer's son Maxim, now a well-known conductor. It's a light- hearted, tongue-in-cheek piece with a Romantic slow movement. It's been a popular favorite since the day it was written, and perfectly compliments Poulenc's madcap send-up of everything from silent movie music to Mozart and the Javanese gamelan. Good for whatever ails you. --David Hurwitz

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Warning all trumpet players.......1999-09-07

This is an excellent recording in all regards except for the trumpet solos in the Shostakovich first piano concerto. To put it bluntly, they are horrible. The Shostakovich second concerto is about as close to perfect as you can get. The Poulenc is also very interesting and well played.

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20th Century Piano Concertos Manufacturer: High Definition(Hdc) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00003TFN4 Release Date: 2001-01-02

Tracks:

1. Pno Con No.1 in D flat, Op.10: I. Allegro Brioso
2. Pno Con No.1 in D flat, Op.10: II. Andante Assai
3. Pno Con No.1 in D flat, Op.10: III. Allegro Scherzando
4. Pno Con: I. Allegretto
5. Pno Con: II. Andante Con Moto
6. Pno Con: III. Rondeau A La Francaise. Presto Giocoso
7. Pno Con in G: I. Allegremento
8. Pno Con in G: II. Adagio Assai
9. Pno Con in G: III. Presto

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French Organ Concertos Manufacturer: ABC Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dupré, Marcel | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Organ | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003IVS Release Date: 1996-01-23

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Poulenc: Concertos pour orgue, piano, deux pianos & clavecin Manufacturer: Erato ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Harpsichord | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004VRAH Release Date: 2000-01-01

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Concertos for Organ and Orchestra Manufacturer: Motette Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Percussion | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000056T74 Release Date: 2001-01-30

Tracks:

1. Con in g
2. Con Romano: 1. Satz (Son)
3. Con Romano: 2. Satz
4. Con Romano: Cadenza E Toccata

Track Listings:

1. Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonatas (1660) - Andrew Manze, Violin
2. Gorecki Sonata for 2 Violins
3. Grieg: Complete String Quartets
4. John Marsh: Five Symphonies
5. Karajan Plays Bach/Beethoven/Penderecki
6. Karol Szymanowski: Works for Piano
7. Keyboard Works
8. Korngold: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
9. Le Groupe Des Six
10. Liszt: Piano Concertos No.1 and No.2

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