Poulenc Concertos Christian Ihle Hadland, Håvard Gimse & Kåre Nordstoga

• Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963): Concerto pour piano et orchestre:
• 1Concerto pour piano et orchestre: I. Allegretto09:46
• 2Concerto pour piano et orchestre: II. Andante con moto: Commencer très calmement09:46
• 3Concerto pour piano et orchestre: III. Rondeau à la française: Presto giocoso04:06
• Concerto en ré mineur pour deux pianos et orchestre:
• 4Concerto en ré mineur pour deux pianos et orchestre: I. Allegro ma non troppo07:46
• 5Concerto en ré mineur pour deux pianos et orchestre: II. Larghetto05:03
• 6Concerto en ré mineur pour deux pianos et orchestre: III. Finale05:44
• Francis Poulenc:
• 7Concerto en sol mineur pour orgue, orchestre à cordes et timbales21:19
• Total Runtime01:03:30

Info for Poulenc Concertos

On this recording, they perform a comprehensive selection of Overtures by Francis Poulenc.

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) is not an easy composer to relate to. Not the man himself perhaps – though possibly that too – but his music. It is somehow dated. Here is a composer who produced his best works, all more or less completely tonal, at a time when Arnold Schoenberg was writing twelve-tone music and Poulenc’s countrymen Oliver Messiaen (1908–1992) and Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) were into innovative rhythms, scales and techniques to lift the music out of the realm of subjective emotionalism. One of Poulenc’s most splendid works, Gloria, from 1959, was composed two years after Boulez’s third piano sonata. The two works have nothing in common other than that they both consist of notes and belong to what is called the European music tradition. What’s more, I am reasonably certain that Gloria has many more listeners than the third piano sonata of Boulez, quite simply because this melodious choral work is more accessible. ...


It is a flexible orchestra, playing everything from symphonic and contemporary classical music to pop, rock, folk and jazz. Every year the orchestra performs together with internationally acclaimed artists at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which is aired to millions of viewers worldwide. Among those with whom it has collaborated in recent years are Kaizers Orchestra, Mari Boine, Jarle Bernhoft, Diamanda Galàs, René Fleming, Andrew Manze, Anna Netrebko, and Gregory Porter.

Christian Ihle Hadland, piano
Håvard Gimse, piano
Kåre Nordstoga, organ
Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Thomas Søndergård, conductor
Peter Szilvay, conductor

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