Poulenc - Piano Music
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10217
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 2nd February 2024
Contents
Works
Mouvements perpetuels (3)Napoli
Nocturnes (8)
Novelettes (3), FP47/173
Valse (from 'Album des Six')
Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach
Villageoises
Artists
Chiara Cipelli (piano)Works
Mouvements perpetuels (3)Napoli
Nocturnes (8)
Novelettes (3), FP47/173
Valse (from 'Album des Six')
Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach
Villageoises
Artists
Chiara Cipelli (piano)About
More affecting are the eight Nocturnes, composed between 1929 and 1938, and the three Novelettes (1927-1959), while the ‘Six petites pièces enfantines’ that make up the Villageoises of 1933 share the a spirit of gentle playfulness with Poulenc’s popular musical tale, Babar the Elephant. One day when Poulenc was improvising on the piano, his cousin’s little girl exclaimed: ‘Grandfather, it’s so boring when you play like that, why don’t you play us this?’. And in 1945, once the dreadful war years were over, Poulenc was happy to oblige.
The Trois Mouvements perpétuels are early pieces, a product of the kaleidoscopic ‘harlequin years’ of Paris in the 1920s. The three movements reveal a musical freshness and fluidity somewhat reminiscent of Satie, whose individualistic approach to life and art inspired the members of Les Six, to whom he served as a kind of honorary president. Finally, Poulenc evokes the spirit of Bach returns in a surprising guise in the Valse-Improvisation sur le nom de Bach, a piece bursting with vitality, in perfect keeping with the famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz, to whom it was dedicated.
Two previous albums by Chiara Cipelli on Brilliant Classics and Piano Classics have won enthusiastic praise from reviewers in Fanfare magazine. The piano music of Bruno Bettinelli is ‘presented with wonderful vigour and colour by the fine young Lombardy native Chiara Cipelli’ (95801), while ‘Cipelli’s technical capabilities are impressive throughout’ her selection of early Messiaen pieces (PCL10200).
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