Latest News: Classical, Poulenc (composer)
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Interview,
Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva on the art of the piano duo 27th December 2023The curators of the London Piano Festival reflect on what makes the perfect partner on the piano-bench, and discuss their new album of music by Poulenc, Milhaud and Debussy (released on Orchid Classics last month).
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Interview,
Mathieu Romano on Ensemble Aedes 18th December 2023The French conductor talks about the choir which he founded as a twenty-one-year-old student in Paris, their mission to be 'specialists of nothing', and their close rapport with his mentor François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles.
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Interview,
Véronique Gens on singing Poulenc's Elle 13th February 2023The French soprano reflects on undertaking the biggest challenge of her career to date, and explains why La voix humaine is 'unique in the whole history of music'...
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Recording of the Week,
Véronique Gens in Poulenc's La Voix Humaine 13th January 2023The great French tragedienne tackles a role that’s surely been beckoning for years, and the results are every bit as compelling as you'd expect - with the Orchestre National de Lille providing some telling insights into the other side of this fraught phone-conversation...
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Interview,
Rosalind Plowright on Dialogues des Carmélites 2nd December 2014Katherine talks to the British mezzo about singing Poulenc's masterpiece in a new production from Paris, out now on DVD/Blu-ray on Erato.
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Favourites,
Francis Poulenc 21st November 2014Katherine selects some favourite recordings of the French composer Francis Poulenc.
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Recording of the Week,
Poulenc from Patricia Petibon and Paavo Järvi 25th November 2013The fiftieth anniversary of the composer’s death is marked by outstanding performances of three of his sacred works: the Gloria, Stabat mater, and Litanies à la Vierge*.