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Poulenc: Piano Music / Cipelli
Piano Classics

Poulenc: Piano Music / Cipelli

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Composer
Francis Poulenc
Artist
Chiara Cipelli
Format
CD
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Feb 16, 2024
Catalog #
PCL10217
UPC
5029365102179

About

This new album presents a delightful selection of Poulenc’s piano music, starting with the intriguing little Valse (1919) from L’Album des Six, which first presented in published form the collective of Franco-Swiss composers who came to be known under that title. As the fruit of a trip to Italy in the company of Darius Milhaud, a fellow Les Six-er, Napoli is a suite written in 1925 and presenting Italian forms through the light of Poulenc’s irrepressible personality.
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 perpetuels 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).

Tracklist 25 tracks

  1. 1 Valse in C Major 02:07
    Track
    1
    Title
    Valse in C Major
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  2. 2 I. Barcarolle 01:49
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Barcarolle
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  3. 3 II. Nocturne 03:12
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Nocturne
    Duration
    03:12
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  4. 4 III. Caprice italien 05:34
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Caprice italien
    Duration
    05:34
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  5. 5 No. 1 in C Major 03:19
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 1 in C Major
    Duration
    03:19
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  6. 6 No. 2 in A Major, "Bal de jeunes filles" 01:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 2 in A Major, "Bal de jeunes filles"
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  7. 7 No. 3 in F Major, "Les Cloches de Malines" 03:21
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3 in F Major, "Les Cloches de Malines"
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  8. 8 No. 4 in C Minor, "Bal fantôme" 01:35
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 4 in C Minor, "Bal fantôme"
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  9. 9 No. 5 in D Minor, "Phalènes" 01:26
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 5 in D Minor, "Phalènes"
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  10. 10 No. 6 in G Major 03:28
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 6 in G Major
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  11. 11 No. 7 in E-Flat Major 02:13
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 7 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    02:13
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  12. 12 No. 8 in G Major, "Pour servir de coda au cycle" 02:27
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 8 in G Major, "Pour servir de coda au cycle"
    Duration
    02:27
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  13. 13 I. Valse tyrolienne 00:39
    Track
    13
    Title
    I. Valse tyrolienne
    Duration
    00:39
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  14. 14 II. Staccato 00:53
    Track
    14
    Title
    II. Staccato
    Duration
    00:53
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  15. 15 III. Rustique 01:00
    Track
    15
    Title
    III. Rustique
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  16. 16 IV. Polka 00:36
    Track
    16
    Title
    IV. Polka
    Duration
    00:36
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  17. 17 V. Petite ronde 00:57
    Track
    17
    Title
    V. Petite ronde
    Duration
    00:57
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  18. 18 VI. Coda 00:54
    Track
    18
    Title
    VI. Coda
    Duration
    00:54
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  19. 19 Novelette No. 1 in C Major: Modéré sans lenteur 02:59
    Track
    19
    Title
    Novelette No. 1 in C Major: Modéré sans lenteur
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  20. 20 Novelette No. 2 in B-Flat Minor: Tres rapide et rythme 01:39
    Track
    20
    Title
    Novelette No. 2 in B-Flat Minor: Tres rapide et rythme
    Duration
    01:39
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  21. 21 Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla, FP 173 02:31
    Track
    21
    Title
    Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla, FP 173
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  22. 22 I. Assez modéré 01:18
    Track
    22
    Title
    I. Assez modéré
    Duration
    01:18
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  23. 23 II. Tres modéré 02:02
    Track
    23
    Title
    II. Tres modéré
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  24. 24 III. Alerte 03:09
    Track
    24
    Title
    III. Alerte
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli
  25. 25 Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach, FP 62 01:49
    Track
    25
    Title
    Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach, FP 62
    Duration
    01:49
    Composer
    Francis Poulenc
    Performer
    Chiara Cipelli