Poulenc: The Complete Music for Piano Duo

On this CD:

1. Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel

2. Capriccio for 2 pianos (after Le bal Masqué), FP 155
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel

3. Élégie (en accords alternés), for 2 pianos, FP 175
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel

4. L'embarquement pour Cythère, valse-musette for 2 pianos (from film, Le voyage en Amérique), FP 150
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel

5. Sonata for 2 pianos, FP 156
Composed by Francis Poulenc
Performed by Jeremy Brown, Seta Tanyel

Tracks:

Capriccio D'apres Le Bal Masque - Alexandre Tharaud
Prologue: Extremement Lent Et Calme - Alexandre Tharaud
Allegro Molto: Tres Rythme - Alexandre Tharaud
Andante Lyrico: Lentement - Alexandre Tharaud
Epilogue: Allegro Giocoso - Alexandre Tharaud
Elegie - Alexandre Tharaud
Valse-Musette For Two Pianos - Alexandre Tharaud
Prelude: Modere - Alexandre Tharaud
Rustique: Naif Et Lent - Alexandre Tharaud
Final: Tres Vite - Alexandre Tharaud
Presto - Ronald Van Spaendonck
Andante: Tres Lent - Ronald Van Spaendonck
Vif: Vite, Avec Joie - Ronald Van Spaendonck
Allegro: Tres Rythme - Ronald Van Spaendonck
Romance: Andante Tres Doux - Ronald Van Spaendonck
Final: Tres Anime - Ronald Van Spaendonck
Allegro Moderato: Grazioso - Guy Touvron
Andante: Tres Lent - Guy Touvron
Rondeau: Anime - Guy Touvron

Customer Reviews:

This is my favorite of the series if that's possible.......2002-05-10

I discovered the music of Francis Poulenc quite by accident when I was a youngster when I heard his Model Animals on the radio. I bought an old Columbia Records recording of the composer playing and conducting some of the works on this CD. A good mixure of small group playing and duo piano compositions which I think I like the best. Thank you Naxos for giving us this great opportunity to enjoy these works which have been ignored by the big record companies for so many years. You can go wrong with this.
Craig

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Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Classical | Imports | Stores | Music
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Complete Works for Solo Piano

ASIN: B000038I6F
Release Date: 1999-12-14

Amazon.com

Here's nearly two and a half hours of unadulterated listening pleasure. The chamber output of Frenchman Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) spans some four decades and more, from the tartly modernist cavortings of the very Stravinskian Sonata for Two Clarinets (1918), via the insouciant charms of both the Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano (his first big chamber success from 1926) and Sextet (1932-9) as well as the substantial, deeply felt wartime sonatas for violin and cello, to the three sonatas for woodwind he penned in his twilight years (including the deliciously tuneful, deservedly popular Flute Sonata of 1957). There's a healthy sprinkling of comparative rarities too, not least the poignant little Sarabande for solo guitar (1960) as well as the even briefer, haunting Villanelle (1938) for piccolo and piano. Not only do the members of the Nash Ensemble bring an abundant technical flair to everything they survey, they also don't miss out on that peculiar mix of the frothy, madcap, and sublime that are such trademarks of Poulenc's inimitable mode of expression. The year 1999, this composer's centenary year, furnished no more rewarding haul than this immaculately produced Hyperion anthology, which must receive the heartiest of welcomes. --Andrew Achenbach

Customer Reviews:

I love this CD set.......2000-02-10

I bought this because Joshua Kosman (an SF Chronicle music critic) highly recommended it. As with every Hyperion CD I've bought it is wonderfully done in every detail, even down to the cover art. In his review Mr. Kosman cautioned that this is not profound music, just fun stuff, beautifully played by the Nash Ensemble, and enjoyable to listen to. He is, as usual, 100% correct.

Poulenc: The Complete Music for Piano Duo

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Complete Music for piano DUO

Poulenc: The Complete Music for Piano Duo

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000AFL
Release Date: 1992-10-28

Tracks:

Sonata for 4 Hands: I. Prelude
Sonata for 4 Hands: II. Rustique
Sonata for 4 Hands: III. Final
Capriccio (after Le bal masqu
Ele
L'Embarquement pour Cyth
Sonata for 2 pianos: I. Prologue
Sonata for 2 pianos: II Allegro molto
Sonata for 2 pianos: III Andante lyrico
Sonata for 2 pianos: IV. Epilogue

Customer Reviews:

Complete Music for piano DUO.......2005-06-15

Beware Amazon's header, this is not the complete Poulenc piano music, just the four hand/duo stuff.
But, luckily, it is an excellent survey, by far the best of recent vintage. Tanyel and Brown, not soloists on their day off but a true piano team, are totally sensitive to Poulenc's mixture of elan and tenderness. They get the saucy bounce of the little early sonata, the stark profundity of the later, greater one, and the time-stands-still sighing of the wonderful Elegie.
And, as is not often the case, the two pianos are well recorded, sounding present but pleasant in a large room acoustic.