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Poulenc - Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op. 100
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Chamber » Sextets » Piano Sextets
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The playing sparkles. None of these pieces will challenge the intellect, but each in turn tickles the senses. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, June 2021, Also Recommended - K452
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Invidious as it may seem to pick out just one of these excellent artists, special mention must be made of Ian Brown, who plays in nine of the 13 works included and confirms his standing as one... —
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French Woodwind Music, Volume 2
Ravel & Poulenc
William Bennett (flute), James Campbell (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Rachel Gough (bassoon)
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If you're after a single disc sampler of the main chamber works, James Levine's collaboration with the Ensemble Wien-Berlin offers eloquent and chic accounts of the Sextet, flute and clarinet... —
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice
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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, Collection Recommendation
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This disc of Poulenc chamber works provides much enjoyment. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Chamber Music
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This is an excellent, spirited two-CD set...A facotr that comes across clearly here is that Poulenc had a more or less infallible ear for tapping into the timbre and personality of different... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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Poulenc - Solo Piano & Chamber Works
RecommendedPascal Rogé (piano), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Chantal Juillet (violin), André Cazalet (horn), Michel Portal (clarinet), Patrick Gallois (flute), Maurice Bourgue (oboe) & Amaury Wallez (bassoon)
Behind this bumper box lies the presiding genius of Pascal Rogé, whose tender whimsy and incisive wit have the measure of St Francis' bittersweet sensibility - and its deep-veined melancholy. —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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