Poulenc - Complete Chamber Works
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Label: Champs Hill Records
Cat No: CHRCD028
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 27th February 2012
Contents
Works
Cello Sonata, FP143Clarinet Sonata in B flat major, FP184
Elegie for horn and piano, FP168
Flute Sonata, FP164
Oboe Sonata, FP185
Sarabande for solo guitar
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, FP100
Sonata for 2 clarinets, FP7
Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone
Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon, FP43
Un joueur de flute berce les ruines
Villanelle for piccolo (pipe) and piano, FP74
Violin Sonata, FP119
Artists
London Conchord EnsembleWorks
Cello Sonata, FP143Clarinet Sonata in B flat major, FP184
Elegie for horn and piano, FP168
Flute Sonata, FP164
Oboe Sonata, FP185
Sarabande for solo guitar
Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn, FP100
Sonata for 2 clarinets, FP7
Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone
Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon, FP43
Un joueur de flute berce les ruines
Villanelle for piccolo (pipe) and piano, FP74
Violin Sonata, FP119
Artists
London Conchord EnsembleAbout
"The ensemble clicks perfectly, the playing seemingly effortless and a regard for precision never stifling the musicians' natural feeling for life and breath." - BBC Music Magazine
The music traverses Poulenc's career, from early works such as the Sonata for Two Clarinets of 1918, to the late Sonatas for Oboe and Clarinet. It reflects his compositional personality, from the mischievous wit of his early neo-classical phase, to the profundity of his last composition. His music for wind instruments is beloved of its performers - immensely idiomatic and exploiting the full strengths of each instrument.
The Sextet and Trio for Piano and winds are arguably the greatest written for their combination of instruments. The Trio was the first of his chamber pieces to use his own instrument, the piano, and was eventually completed in 1926 after some advice from Stravinsky (whose astringent woodwind writing he had emulated in his early works).
His Sextet required even more revisions, eventually reaching its current form in 1939. It is one of Poulenc's earliest works to show the influence of Prokofiev. After some false starts, he completed the Sonata for Violin and piano in 1942 and it was premiered in 1943 at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, although some may argue that his Cello Sonata, completed in 1948, is altogether more successful.
His moving memorial to the great English horn player Denis Brain is the Elégie of 1957 and includes a bleak lyrical central section which anticipates Poulenc's final choral work, Sept répos des ténèbres.
The two final sonatas, for Clarinet (1962) and for Oboe (1962-3), were also written in memory of departed friends, to Honneger and to Prokofiev respectively.
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