Poulenc: Music for Piano Solo and Duo

Chung is a startlingly original pianist whose solo work, apart from discs of Scriabin and Ligeti, we’ve heard too little of … Chung captures the sense of a series of musical snapshots with the... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2016 More…

Release Date: 6th May 2016
Catalogue No: SIGCD455
Label: Signum

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Poulenc: 15 Improvisations

Lucille Chung (piano)

Poulenc: 3 Novelettes: No. 1 in C major

Lucille Chung (piano)

Poulenc: 3 Novelettes: No. 2 in B flat minor

Lucille Chung (piano)

Poulenc: Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla

Lucille Chung (piano)

Poulenc: Sonata for Piano Four Hands (à mademoiselle Simone Tilliard)

with Alessio Bax (piano), Lucille Chung (piano)

Poulenc: L'Embarquement pour Cythère, for 2 pianos

with Alessio Bax (piano), Lucille Chung (piano)

Poulenc: Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra

with Alessio Bax (piano), Lucille Chung (piano)

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Poulenc was a skilled pianist, cultivating a style of playing characterised by colorfulness and clarity, possessing an ear for melody that distinguished him as France’s finest song composer since Fauré. Canadian pianist Lucille Chung – acclaimed for her “stylish and refined performances” by Gramophone magazine, “combining vigour and suppleness with natural eloquence and elegance” – appears as a soloist on this new recording, performing Poulenc’s 'Improvisations and Novelettes' before being joined by her duo partner (and husband) Alessio Bax for 'L’embarquement pour Cythère', the Sonata for Four Hands and Concerto for Two Pianos.

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August 2016

Chung is a startlingly original pianist whose solo work, apart from discs of Scriabin and Ligeti, we’ve heard too little of … Chung captures the sense of a series of musical snapshots with the evanescent spontaneity of her playing. She is able to evoke the mercurial mood changes so characteristic of Poulenc with grace, consistently beautiful sound and an unerring sense of proportion. In succession, each seems more vivid than the last.

Pianist Magazine

The Sonata for Four Hands receives and idiomatic performance… Three Noveletts… receives and extremely fine performance.

Classical Ear 17th August 2016

Lucille Chung proves a fantastic Poulenc advocate…Alessio Bax, Chung’s husband, joins her in the remaining works – and the result is a marriage of shared executive excellence…in the composer’s two-piano reduction of the Concerto for Two Pianos Chung and Bax tackle a sizeable work with aplomb, ferociously attacking the outer movements and achieving a delicious romance in the glorious central one. This is a release to savour

Poulenc: Music for Piano Solo and Duo

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