Poulenc / Hadland / Sondergard: Concertos - COMPACT DISCS

Poulenc / Hadland / Sondergard: Concertos - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Concertos

Artist:

Poulenc / Hadland / Sondergard

Label:

Lawo Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

7090020181950

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2019-08-16

Number of Discs:

1

Francis Poulenc 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 and Pierre Boulez were into innovative rhythms, scales and techniques to lift the music out of the realm of subjective emotionalism. This release features three concertos by Francis Poulenc. The Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (1938) is considered to be the most popular and, perhaps, the most serious. The Piano Concerto (1949), a light concerto a wellspring of musical ideas, more or less brutally juxtaposed. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932) lies perhaps somewhere between these two.

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