Poulenc Piano Concertos Aubade

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest Poulenc: Piano Concertos / Aubade Review Sunday Times RECORD OF THE WEEK.Sunday Times, 20/09/15 /// The smooth alternation of chords between the two players, and their touchingly tactful treatment of the splintered harmonies with which it ends testify to Lortie and Mercier's remarkable rapport, having been duet partners since their teens. Performance **** Recording **** --BBC Music Magazine,Christmas '15 Having all of Poulenc's concertante piano music on a single disc has to be a Good Thing. These performances are very decent too. You may have umpteen versions of the D minor concerto already, but now's the time to acquire another one. Louis Lortie and regular duet partner Hlne Mercier give us a refreshingly pungent, sharp-edged take on the work. It's still enormous fun, and we're reminded of Poulenc's brilliance in blending so many disparate elements with such gleeful aplomb. Javanese gamelan, Stravinskian neo-classicism and Mozart all feature, though the uniquely breezy mood is pure Poulenc. Lortie and Mercier are fearless, their rapid semi-quavers at the concerto's opening immaculate. Tautly accompanied too by Edward Gardner's closely balanced BBC Philharmonic, adding a welcome touch of grit to a concerto which shouldn't be all froth. Even more impressive is Lortie's take on Poulenc's oft-overlooked Piano Concerto, a work which he describes as almost a guilty pleasure: raw melodic talent unstained by intellectual complications... Gardner's burnished brass chorales gleam. The Swanee River quote in the last movement is neatly handled. Roger Nichols' entertaining booklet essay suggests that Poulenc's opening D minor melody in octaves is a nod to Rachmaninov's Third, and that the work's slow acceptance is unsurprising considering it was written in a postwar France where gritty modernism was more in vogue. Rarer still is the early Aubade, a "Concerto chorographique" for piano and 18 instruments. The stark opening prefigures the darkness which haunts much of Poulenc's late music, but this eccentric blend of ballet score and piano concerto contains some brilliantly catchy ideas. The bonus items are superb. We get the vibrant, spiky Sonata for Piano Duet along with two late pieces for two pianos. Most affecting is the 1959 lgie, five sublime minutes which should be played, according to Poulenc, as though you were improvising, a cigar in your mouth and a glass of cognac on the piano. --ArtsDesk 17/10/15 There are valuable interpretative insights here for even the most seasoned of Poulenc aficionados. --Gramophone,Oct '15 Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. Your package will be safely taken care of & posted from England by means of Priority Airmail, which is air freighted to your nearest Australia Post Distribution Center (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or Perth), from where they are delivered to your address by Australia Post. Returns and refunds We operate a 30 day money back guarantee. If you are unhappy with the product for whatever reason, please contact us to arrange a return and refund. As shipping costs are not retrievable, we are unable to refund shipping costs. Feedback We use an automated eBay feedback response system. If you are happy with the product, please leave positive feedback and we will automatically leave positive feedback for you. If you are unhappy with the transaction for any reason, please contact us first to resolve. If you do leave negative or neutral feedback you waive your rights for support regarding any problems with us and open yourself up for possible retaliatory negative feedback. Please avoid making negative feedback remarks, contact us first if you have any problems! We are here to help! Contact Us Please contact us via eBay messages if you have any questions and our Customer Service team will be happy to assist you with any queries. Thank you. Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Copyright © 2017 The Pom Shop. All rights reserved.

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