The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 5
Thomas Allen, Thomas Oliemans, Joshua Ellicott, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Ann Murray, Sarah Fox, Malcolm Martineau (piano), Lisa Friend (flute), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
The Badke Quartet
Thomas Allen's delivery of [La bestiare] is suave and secure. In both cycles, Julian Bliss's clarinet playing stands out for silkiness of tone...Catherine Wyn-Rogers finds a steely sensuality...
The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 5
Thomas Allen, Thomas Oliemans, Joshua Ellicott, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Ann Murray, Sarah Fox, Malcolm Martineau (piano), Lisa Friend (flute), Julian Bliss (clarinet), Simon Desbruslais (trumpet), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
The Badke Quartet
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Thomas Allen's delivery of [La bestiare] is suave and secure. In both cycles, Julian Bliss's clarinet playing stands out for silkiness of tone...Catherine Wyn-Rogers finds a steely sensuality...
About
Composing over 150 works for piano and voice over a period of 44 years, the songs of Francis Poulenc remain consistently popular to concert audiences the world over. Varying in their individual style and character in a way that defies generalization, Poulenc set music to a wide range of different French poetry – both ancient and modern, and from the serious to the surreal. The final disc in Signum's series of The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc features a cast of the finest singers of our generation, accompanied by Malcolm Martineau as well as additional instrumental soloists for Poulenc's larger-ensemble settings of his songs.
Contents and tracklist
- Lisa Friend, Julian Bliss, Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Oliemans
- Badke Quartet
- Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Oliemans, Lisa Friend, Julian Bliss, Jarek Augustyniak
- Badke Quartet
- Joshua Ellicott, Lisa Friend, David Cowley, Jarek Augustyniak, Simon Desbruslais, Tamsin Waley-Cohen
- Malcolm Martineau, Thomas Allen, Julian Bliss, Jarek Augustyniak, Simon Desbruslais, Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Gemma Rosefield, David Corkhill, Andrew Barnard, Gary Lovenest, David Cowley
Awards and reviews
October 2015
Thomas Allen's delivery of [La bestiare] is suave and secure. In both cycles, Julian Bliss's clarinet playing stands out for silkiness of tone...Catherine Wyn-Rogers finds a steely sensuality in Poulenc's sexiest song 'Hôtel'...The playing is strong, especially from Martineau and the Badke Quartet.
September 2015
[in this volume] the musical horizons broaden out to take in various cycles that call for the accompaniment of variegated instrumental ensembles...The instrumental ensembles, thoroughly in tune with Poulenc's personality, add piquancy to a delightful disc.
28th June 2015
Thomas Allen, Thomas Oliemans, Joshua Ellicott, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Ann Murray and Sarah Fox are all secure and idiomatic Poulenc connoisseurs.
