Poulenc - Aubade
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Special offer. Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos & Piano Concerto
RecommendedEric Le Sage (piano), Frank Braley (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Leige, Stéphane Denève
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Building a Library, May 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, June 2023, Also Recommended (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Special offer. Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc
RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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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... —
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra, etc.
François-René Duchable (piano) & Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, James Conlon
Musical delight and enchantment don't come much stronger than this; Poulenc at his most ebullient, but also warm and eloquent in the two-piano Concerto, the solo Piano Concerto, and the Aubade. —
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Howard Shelley treats both [works] without any sentimental swooning, thereby bringing out the Baroque architecture that underpins their Romantic surfaces…altogether the disc succeeds absolutely... —
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Poulenc: Aubade & Sinfonietta – Hahn: Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este
Julian Evans (piano), New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp
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Special offer. Poulenc - Concertos
Jean-Bernard Pommier, Anne Queffelec, Maggie Cole & Gillian Weir
City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
The organ is heard within rather than above the orchestral fray and the urgency of the fast passages balances perfectly the sensuous calm of the quiet pages. If you want Weir this is the one... —
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French Works for Small Orchestra
Ralph Votapok (piano) James Krogor (cello)
Harmonie Ensemble, Steven Richman
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