Poulenc
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Fresh-faced charm pervades this astutely curated disc…Far from a marriage of convenience, Lewis and Osborne are long-standing duo partners, complementing each other perfectly in lightly-worn... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Piano
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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The press-release quotes Tharaud as saying the album was 'made for the sheer pleasure of it'. This is tangibly translated in much of the playing, across a programme that ranges from Bach to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th May 2024
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Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva have plenty of spirit to their playing, whether in the quirkiness of Poulenc’s Capriccio or sublimities of his Sonata for Two Pianos. — More…
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Poulenc: Piano Concertos & Aubade
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano), with Hélène Mercier (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
[Lortie and Mercier] perform [the Poulenc] with great panache, also capturing the work's more reflective qualities, with Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic providing by turns zestful and... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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French Ballet Music of the 1920s
RecommendedL’Éventail de Jeanne, ballet in one act by ten French composers; Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, ballet in one act by members of the group Les Six
Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon
The zany exuberance of Les mariés, concocted by five of Les Six in the 1920s, is infectiously captured in this colourful reissue, as is L'éventail, a contemporaneous ten-composer collaboration. — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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'Les girls' have tremendous fun playing up the kinship between Poulenc and Brubeck, and the whole album breathes lightly-worn chic and joie de vivre. Watch out for the final moto perpetuo of... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Poulenc: Piano & Organ Concertos Pascal Rogé (piano), George Malcolm (organ)
The Philharmonia Orchestra & L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande etc, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Charles Dutoit/Sergiu Commissiona, Iona Brown
From the first earth-shaking chord [of the Organ Concerto] you are firmly inside the building...Malcolm is alert to every nuance from Bachian majesty to fairground vulgarity and he paints it... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Recommendation
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Poulenc - Solo Piano & Chamber Works RecommendedPascal Rogé (piano), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Chantal Juillet (violin), André Cazalet (horn), Michel Portal (clarinet), Patrick Gallois (flute), Maurice Bourgue (oboe) & Amaury Wallez (bassoon)
Behind this bumper box lies the presiding genius of Pascal Rogé, whose tender whimsy and incisive wit have the measure of St Francis' bittersweet sensibility - and its deep-veined melancholy. — More…
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Poulenc - Complete Works for Two Pianos Roland Pöntinen, Love Derwinger (pianos)
Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
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The Clarinet Sonatas by Saint-Saëns and Poulenc are both late works, but they're very different in feeling: the Saint-Saëns generally relaxed and classical, the Poulenc more excitable, swinging... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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