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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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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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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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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, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. 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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Poulenc & Milhaud: Works for Two Pianos
Labèque Sisters (pianos)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seifi Ozawa
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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: Concertos
Christian Ihle Hadland (piano), Håvard Gimse (piano), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Peter Szilvay, Kåre Nordstoga, Thomas Søndergård
There is much here to admire. Phrasing is unobtrusively persuasive and technically all the artists are well in command of their instruments. In general speeds are close to what Poulenc asks... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Concerto
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Martha Argerich: Lugano Concertos
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), with Alexander Gurning (piano), with Paul Gulda & Rico Gulda (piano), with Akane Sakai (piano), with Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), with Gabriela Montero (piano), Susan Roberts, Helene Schneidermann, Daniel Norman, Carsten Wittmoser, Yulia Zaichkina, Alexander Mogilevsky...
I would not deter anyone from duplicating because...there are many moments and passages of pure delight, often deriving from the frisson of a live performance (listen to the Poulenc!) One marvels... —
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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New. Argerich A-Z: Mozart – Pärt
Martha Argerich (piano), Stephen Kovacevich (piano), Akane Sakai (piano), Friedrich Gulda (cadenzor), Ludwig van Beethoven (cadenzor), Paul Gulda (piano), Rico Gulda (piano), Evgeny Kissin (piano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Alexander Gurning (piano), Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin),...
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