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Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music

Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music
Composer Francis Poulenc
Artist Matteo Fossi piano
Marco Gaggini piano
Federica Ferrati piano
Duccio Ceccanti violin
Vittorio Ceccanti cello
Domenico Orlando oboe
Andrea Zucco bassoon
Claudia Bucchini flute
Format 3 CD
Cat. number 95351
EAN code 5028421953519
Release November 2017

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About this release

There are 20 separate works on this, the most complete set yet released of Poulenc’s chamber music. No single movement is more than a few minutes long and yet the sequence adds up to an absorbing narrative which takes us from the 20-year-old enfant terrible of 1920s Paris to the penultimate year of his life, with three masterfully written, unusually reflective wind sonatas. Like his older friend Satie, progenitor of Les Six, Poulenc tended to write music in short, repeated fragments. Unlike Satie, however, the younger man could and would switch moods – from clownish humour to lugubrious melancholy – at the drop of a hat.

Like his other compositional mentor Stravinsky, he composed at the piano, and his own fluency as a performer is evident from the piano parts of the many sonatas and trios in this collection. He much preferred wind instruments to solo strings, for their more personable qualities, though it helped that he had a wide circle of friends for whom to write such works.

Matteo Fossi is the animating spirit behind this comprehensive set. He also has a duet partnership with Marco Gaggini, which has made successful recordings of other 20th-century music for Brilliant Classics, including Bartók (BC94737) and arrangements of Schoenberg’s chamber symphonies (BC94957): ‘a very successful release,’ remarked MusicWeb of the Schoenberg CD. According to Gramophone’s review of the Bartók, ‘Matteo Fossi and Marco Gaggini play like a dream.’

With only one, full-price rival in the current catalogue, this new recording will make an attractive, indeed essential acquisition for all lovers of chamber music, of Poulenc’s ever-renewed idiom, of music that smiles, laughs and sympathises with your moods like a good friend.

The complete chamber music by Poulenc on 3 CDs!
Francis Poulenc is one of the most remarkable French composers of the 20th century. Inspired by many (Debussy, Satie, his fellow composers of the “Groupe des Six”) he found his essential own voice, an unique blend of French gaiety and a deep, serious and sometimes melancholic feeling.
These new recordings present Poulenc’s complete chamber music, written for a wide variety of instruments: violin, viola, cello, double-bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, horn, bassoon, English horn and piano: a multi-coloured palette of sonorities, characters and emotions.
Italian pianist Matteo Fossi gathered an excellent line-up of instrumentalists/friends for this huge enterprise, and the result is a sheer delight, the feeling of a “labour of love” permeates every single performance, leaving the listener marveling about the originality and emotional impact of the music.
The booklet contains excellent liner notes written by a musicologist.
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Listening

Track list

Disk 1

  1. Francis Poulenc: Capriccio d’après le “bal masqué”, FP 155
  2. Francis Poulenc: L’Embarquement pour Cythère in E-Flat Major, FP 150
  3. Francis Poulenc: Elégie, FP 175
  4. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8: I. Prélude
  5. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8: II. Rustique
  6. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8: III. Final
  7. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP 156: I. Prologue
  8. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP 156: II. Allegro molto
  9. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP 156: III. Andante lyrico
  10. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for 2 Pianos, FP 156: IV. Epilogue
  11. Francis Poulenc: Violin Sonata, FP 119: I. Allegro con fuoco
  12. Francis Poulenc: Violin Sonata, FP 119: II. Intermezzo
  13. Francis Poulenc: Violin Sonata, FP 119: III. Presto tragico
  14. Francis Poulenc: Le bal masque, FP 60

Disk 2

  1. Francis Poulenc: Cello Sonata, FP 143: I. Allegro
  2. Francis Poulenc: Cello Sonata, FP 143: II. Cavatine
  3. Francis Poulenc: Cello Sonata, FP 143: III. Ballabile
  4. Francis Poulenc: Cello Sonata, FP 143: IV. Finale
  5. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: I. Bransle de Bourgogne
  6. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: II. Pavane
  7. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: III. Petite marche militaire
  8. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: IV. Complainte
  9. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: V. Bransle de Champagne
  10. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: VI. Sicilienne
  11. Francis Poulenc: Suite française, d’après Claude Gervaise, FP 80: VII. Carillon
  12. Francis Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43: I. Presto
  13. Francis Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43: II. Andante
  14. Francis Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, FP 43: III. Rondo
  15. Francis Poulenc: Sextet, FP 100: I. Allegro vivace
  16. Francis Poulenc: Sextet, FP 100: II. Divertissement
  17. Francis Poulenc: Sextet, FP 100: III. Prestissimo

Disk 3

  1. Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata, FP 164: I. Allegro malincolico
  2. Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata, FP 164: II. Cantilena
  3. Francis Poulenc: Flute Sonata, FP 164: III. Presto giocoso
  4. Francis Poulenc: Villanelle, FP 74
  5. Francis Poulenc: Oboe Sonata, FP 185: I. Elégie
  6. Francis Poulenc: Oboe Sonata, FP 185: II. Scherzo
  7. Francis Poulenc: Oboe Sonata, FP 185: III. Déploration
  8. Francis Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata, FP 184: I. Allegro tristamente
  9. Francis Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata, FP 184: II. Romanza
  10. Francis Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata, FP 184: III. Allegro con fuoco
  11. Francis Poulenc: Elégie, FP 168
  12. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Two Clarinets, FP 7: I. Presto
  13. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Two Clarinets, FP 7: II. Andante
  14. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Two Clarinets, FP 7: III. Vif
  15. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon in D Major, FP 32: I. Allegro
  16. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon in D Major, FP 32: II. Romance
  17. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon in D Major, FP 32: III. Finale
  18. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone, FP 33: I. Allegro moderato
  19. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone, FP 33: II. Andante
  20. Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone, FP 33: III. Rondeau
  21. Francis Poulenc: Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14: I. Assez modéré
  22. Francis Poulenc: Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14: II. Très modéré
  23. Francis Poulenc: Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14: III. Alerte
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