Francis Poulenc: Concert champêtre (with score)

[@owengette8089]

0:00 11:15 17:05

[@ChrisWrenLA]

This is orchestral alchemy. Nostalgia, tonality, whimsy, full on majesty in the cadences…. but then profound sadness and loneliness at the end. The wars must have done a number on these musical giants, as they would us all.

[@gustavsoler1812]

@@ChrisWrenLA great words!

[@Nooticus]

One of the greatest Concerti ever for me. No other piece has a sound similar to this. So much fire, energy, nostalgia, fun, seriousness. This piece has EVERYTHING you could want

[@remomazzetti8757]

No matter how light and brilliant so much of Poulenc's is, he actually has something deeper and more devastating to communicate, like the sudden and serious end to this extraordinary Concerto.

[@dimkollias44]

This has to be one of my favourite (and disturbing) endings ever! All of this bombastic buildup for nothing. There is only loneliness and sadness.

[@ChrisWrenLA]

There is a massive abyss at the end of this thing. He gives us some moments within the work, but then the ending is staring down a chasm. After all of the ornamented dazzle of this piece, the last 5 bars are just raw and naked. How can one not weep?

[@OctopusContrapunctus]

I just love poulenc so much

[@barbaramariawilli6572]

I enjoyed this interpretation full of energy, poetry and youthfulness.

[@gustavsoler1812]

that's why i choice this performance

[@jacquesgeorges1041]

Je suis fasciné par la puissance du cerveau capable de créer ça avec comme supports une feuille de papier et un crayon. La création musicale relève de la magie. 🤨😇

[@tomherman2144]

What a happy piece, a life-affirming piece. Hooray.

[@rogerknox9147]

Not always. More bittersweet I would say, but that's expected with Poulenc.

[@docbailey3265]

A unique combination of je me sais pas and magnifique mais c’est de la follie.

[@andreagriseri7656]

Using the harpsicord as a modern instrument: why the smart intuition of the genius Poulenc hasn't been followed by other composers? This is true experimental music!

[@CiaranParker]

Well it was. There are fine harpsichord concerti by Manuel de Falla and others, written for the same artist Wanda Landowska.

[@terryhalco1021]

Check out "Four Fragments from the Canterbury Tales," a delightful piece for soprano, harpsichord, flute, and clarinet by the American composer Lester Trimble. The text is of course from Chaucer; the soprano sings in Middle English. There are several performances on KZbin.

[@andreagriseri7656]

Thanks!

[@Nooticus]

Still the best recording of this ever!

[@MuseDuCafe]

Very grateful for Poulenc's lovely and singular piece With a Score. Thanks much!

[@remomazzetti8757]

There's an excellent live performance with Poulenc himself playing the Concerto on piano, with Dimitri Mitropolous and the New York Philharmonic, November 14, 1948.

[@vincentbos6798]

Damn it! I missed it

[@terryhalco1021]

Interesting -- Nov. 14, 1948 is the day King Charles III was born!

[@Nooticus]

I'm definitely not a middle/slow movement fan, but for me, I think this is the best slow-movement ever. It is so incredibly evocative and almost magical. The whole concreto is extraordinary too though.

[@chriswynn1582]

Much as I like a lot of his music, Poulenc definitely wrote quite a bit of weird stuff too!

[@gustavsoler1812]

this is why we love him🌚

[@steveegallo3384]

Great....BRAVI TUTTI from Acapulco! "In 1967, financial difficulties, along with irregular work for the players and poor pay led to a decision by the French government to form a new orchestra. Following auditions chaired by Charles Munch, 108 musicians were chosen (of whom 50 were from the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra) for the newly created Orchestre de Paris, which gave its first concert on 14 November 1967 at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées...."

[@Nooticus]

The re-upload of the removed video!! 😍👏

[@gustavsoler1812]

what do you mean?

[@CODDE117]

Our boy is just smacking that harpsicord sometimes!

[@entertainer9076]

lmao

[@undisclosedmusic4969]

I love the fact that the first movement is entitled Allegro Molto and marked Adagio 😂

[@speed2040]

Je n'aime pas beaucoup le clavecin à la normale, mais la cela est mis d'une manière si moderne que la j'accroche immédiatement.

[@SergioLOSOWICH]

Sounds fantastic 😉

[@victormendes583]

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) in 3:33

[@TimoTheePiano1]

and Turkish march just after

[@micheleviada3917]

Bravoooooo!!!

[@hansgjerstad8895]

He looked very much like Gustav Mahler on that picture!

[@lillyallseits]

pro gsmer

[@gustavsoler1812]

ik

[@ryancharlesramer_composer]

Always sounds Christmas-like to me

[@jochanaan58]

Aimée van der Wiele studied with Wanda Landowska, for whom Poulenc wrote this concerto. 😎 Is there a video with full orchestral score?

[@gustavsoler1812]

no, there is not a video with full orchestral score

[@legendschant1194]

Notes for myself: 0:25 hapsichord

[@jeanmarcblanc2903]

Quelle année ?

[@antonipopowicz559]

Composé en 1928

[@渡邊博樹-r1j]

la musique française a F.Couperin influence, très bien !

[@sagardia8891]

What a strange music....

[@gustavsoler1812]

the harpsichord really seems out of place in this music

[@Nooticus]

@@gustavsoler1812 ? no it doesnt lol

[@Nooticus]

@@gustavsoler1812 saying the harpsichord seems out of place in a piece that was specifically composed for harpsichord, with it being a parody of baroque music including tons of trills, ornamentation, scalic passages, broken triads...

[@rogerknox9147]

It has lots of variety, at times there seems to be an unstated meaning but I can't say what. Poulenc jumps from one thing to another unpredictably, but what in the 20th century was predictable?