Francis Poulenc - Piano Music; Chamber Music (Pascal Rogé)

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Composer: Francis Poulenc

CD1:

• Les soirées de Nazelles
• Three Novelettes
• Pastourelle (from L'Éventail de Jeanne)
• Trois mouvements perpétuels
• Valse
• Improvisations
• Trois pièces

CD2:

• Humoresque
• Nocturnes
• Suite pour piano
• Thème varié
• Improvisations
• Intermezzi
• Villageoises (Petites pièces enfantines)
• Presto in B flat major

CD3:

• Mélancholie
• Trois Pastorales
• Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach
• Cinq Impromptus
• Badinage
• Napoli
• Promenades
• Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel
• Bourrée, au Pavillon d'Auvergne
• Feuillets d'album
• Française d'après Claude Gervaise (16e siècle)
• Suite française d'après Claude Gervaise (16e siècle)

CD4:

• Capriccio for 2 pianos
• Sonata for 2 pianos
• Élégie for 2 pianos
• Sonata for piano, 4 hands
• L'Embarquement pour Cythère, for 2 pianos
• Sonata for violin and piano
• Élégie for horn and piano

CD5:

• Sextet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn
• Sonata for clarinet and piano
• Sonata for flute and piano
• Sonata for oboe and piano
• Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon

Pascal Rogé, piano

Jean-Philippe Collard, piano

Chantal Juillet, violin

Patrick Gallois, flute

Maurice Bourgue, oboe

Michel Portal, clarinet

Amaury Wallez, bassoon

André Cazalet, horn

Date: 1986-1998

Label: Decca

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Francis Poulenc (7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. He was one of a group of young composers known collectively as Les Six. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928), and the Organ Concerto (1938). In addition to his work as a composer, Poulenc was an accomplished pianist. He toured in Europe and America with the baritone Pierre Bernac and the soprano Denise Duval, and made a number of recordings.

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Pascal Rogé (born 6 April 1951) is a French pianist. Born in Paris, he was a student of the Paris Conservatory and was also mentored by Julius Katchen and Nadia Boulanger. Winner of Georges Enesco piano competition and 1st prize of Marguerite Long Piano competition, he became an exclusive Decca recording artist at the age of seventeen. Rogé has performed in almost every major concert hall in the world. Each season, he devotes more than fifty concerts to French music in Europe as well as in the United States, New Zealand or Asia, and particularly in Japan where he teaches and plays regularly.

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