Poulenc Concertos

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Label
LAWO Classics
Release Date
August 16, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      POULENC, FRANCIS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Norwegian Radio Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Hadland, Gimse, Nordstoga, Szilvay, Sondergard
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 16, 2019
    • UPC
      7090020181950
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      LWC1173
    • LABEL
      LAWO Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland

      Conductor: Thomas Søndergård

    2. II. Andante con moto

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland

      Conductor: Thomas Søndergård

    3. III. Rondo a la francaise (Presto Giocoso)

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland

      Conductor: Thomas Søndergård

    4. I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland, Håvard Gimse

      Conductor: Thomas Søndergård

    5. II. Larghetto

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland, Håvard Gimse

      Conductor: Thomas Søndergård

    6. III. Finale

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland, Håvard Gimse

      Conductor: Thomas Søndergård

    7. Organ Concerto in G Minor, FP 93

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: Norwegian Radio Orchestra

      Performer: Kåre Nordstoga

      Conductor: Peter Szilvay


Francis Poulenc is not an easy composer to relate to. Not the man himself perhaps- though possibly that too- but his music. It is somehow dated. Here is a composer who produced his best works, all more or less completely tonal, at a time when Arnold Schoenberg was writing twelve-tone music and Poulenc's countrymen Oliver Messiaen and Pierre Boulez were into innovative rhythms, scales and techniques to lift the music out of the realm of subjective emotionalism. This release features three concertos by Francis Poulenc. The Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (1938) is considered to be the most popular and, perhaps, the most serious. The Piano Concerto (1949), a light concerto a wellspring of musical ideas, more or less brutally juxtaposed. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932) lies perhaps somewhere between these two.