Concertos, Double Concertos, Poulenc (composer)
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Special offer. Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos & Piano Concerto
RecommendedEric Le Sage (piano), Frank Braley (piano)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Leige, Stéphane Denève
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Building a Library, May 2019, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, June 2023, Also Recommended (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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Bizjak Piano Duo
Bizjak Piano Duo: Sanja & Lidija Bizjak (pianos)
Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Radoslaw Szulc
An excellent programme of 20th-century pieces for two pianos from this impressive duo of sisters. The lively textures and contrasts bound to life, with grit and delicacy. Strong support from... —
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Special offer. Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc
RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Poulenc: Piano Concertos & Aubade
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano), with Hélène Mercier (piano)
BBC Philharmonic, Edward Gardner
[Lortie and Mercier] perform [the Poulenc] with great panache, also capturing the work's more reflective qualities, with Edward Gardner and the BBC Philharmonic providing by turns zestful and... —
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording (Piano Concerto in C sharp minor)
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the disc is totally worth having for the Poulenc Concerto...this talented young ensemble despatches it with plenty of wit and charm...The two young pianists, Mischa Cheung and Yulia Miloslavskaya,... —
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Special offer. Poulenc & Milhaud: Works for Two Pianos
Labèque Sisters (pianos)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seifi Ozawa
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Poulenc Plays Poulenc and Satie
Francis Poulenc (piano), Jacques Février (piano), Orchestre National de La Rtf, Orchestre Des Concerts Straram, Georges Prêtre, Walther Straram
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[Philippe Hersant’s Dreamtime supplies] some of the most instantly beguiling and exciting bars of music I’ve heard open a disc in some time. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2021, Editor's Choice
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Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra, etc.
François-René Duchable (piano) & Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, James Conlon
Musical delight and enchantment don't come much stronger than this; Poulenc at his most ebullient, but also warm and eloquent in the two-piano Concerto, the solo Piano Concerto, and the Aubade. —
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Poulenc: Piano & Organ Concertos
Pascal Rogé (piano), George Malcolm (organ)
The Philharmonia Orchestra & L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande etc, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Charles Dutoit/Sergiu Commissiona, Iona Brown
From the first earth-shaking chord [of the Organ Concerto] you are firmly inside the building...Malcolm is alert to every nuance from Bachian majesty to fairground vulgarity and he paints it... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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