Francis Poulenc - Suite Française [With score]

[@Cubanbearnyc]

This works better for orchestra than piano solo. Great music, great composer! Merci Poulenc....!

[@symphonyman1234]

LOVE this wonderful piece.

[@jaydenbrycen770]

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[@johnnynoirman]

I remember this beautiful piece.

[@isaiahcruz3431]

I don't know why this sort of reminds me of Christmas Music.

[@duykhang3013]

isaiah cruz me too

[@jsalvation7507]

Its the Instrumentation with all of the wind instruments and percussions. Thats often used in the Christmas Repertoire.

[@delko000]

One of this pieces is called Bransle de Champagne. The Bransle was a 16th century french dance. One of the bransle tune was called "branle de l'official". This tune was reused by an english composer to compose "ding dong merrily on high" christmas carol. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Dong_Merrily_on_High kzbin.info/www/bejne/novHgqqZmtpkfrs&ab_channel=HistoricalDance

[@PhilippeBrun-qy3st]

Happy christmas.

[@luisafpatinoosorio613]

I came here for Haruki Murakami

[@johnwasani8338]

This guy has terrible tastes

[@luisafpatinoosorio613]

@@torterrakart7249 Blind Willow, Sleepig Woman

[@adolfoleongomez4631]

Bellísima pieza. Confieso no conocerla.

[@graydonhoward1170]

2:29

[@KalimbaJammer]

Is it just me, or the wind players should have scaled down their dynamics a little, in order to give the harpsichord clarity to its sound?

[@matthew_pauls]

Hi, harpsichordist here! Firstly, I feel that the harpsichord simply wasn't mic-ed (how do you spell that lol, mic like short for microphone lol, as for mic placement) as well as it could be, lacking lower tones in the overtone series, which I also hear throughout the ensemble in general to be fair, leaving the recording mostly with the upper overtones of the harpsichord, making it sound tinny. Secondly, I will admit that I believe that Poulenc in writing this is a product of the era of still rediscovering baroque period instruments, and as a result to lack of knowledge yet to be gained, this isn't very well "orchestrated" for the instrument; Poulenc treated it's writing as one may treat writing for a piano, not thinking enough about the differences of the instrument besides it's timbre, particularly the sustain of sound in this case. Due to sound production, harpsichord has a strong attack, but the sound quickly disappears relative to a piano, and harpsichordists of the baroque era would arpeggiate (at different speeds) a lot and use a lot of other subtle techniques to compensate the quickly disappearing sound, as well as inability to change dynamic level on one single pitch alone (well, besides adjusting, well I'll use organ terminology here and say "stops" to be brief).

[@simianto9957]

​@@matthew_paulsThis is a wonderful and very interesting comment, thanks

[@matthew_pauls]

@@simianto9957 lol forgot abt this, glad ya like it

[@ChillinDylan2875]

6:24

[@sashakindel3600]

I might have guessed this was Stravinski.

[@RTCMAHL]

I thought it was as well.

[@delpage1]

@@RTCMAHL Me too

[@symphonyman1234]

No chance this is Stravinsky and well it's not even close.

[@NothingFunnyAboutTheseCarpets]

@@symphonyman1234 it's veeery close to pulcinella

[@symphonyman1234]

@@NothingFunnyAboutTheseCarpets Pulcinella is based on themes from the Baroque composer Pergolesi while Poulenc's Suite Francais is entirely based on the Rennaissance Dances of Claude Gervaise. Sorry but I would never mistake one for the other.

[@beecolor]

Tempi are strange...

[@symphonyman1234]

Compared to what? These are the same tempos I have always heard on every recording.