Francis Poulenc : Sinfonietta in F major for orchestra FP 141 (1947)

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@danielpincus221 2 жыл бұрын

This is the best recording I've heard. It gives full voice to Poulenc's sensuality, impishness, his arch outrage, sincere avowal. C'est tout!

@kokonssp 3 жыл бұрын

The harmony of this symphony is very wonderful.

@tommywestbrook6470 5 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. I have always loved the Andante cantabile.

@maxmerry8470 5 жыл бұрын

For me, Poulenc is one of the great eccentric composers of music along with, for example, Satie, Milhaud, Prokofiev or Malcolm Arnold (in their completely different ways). However, his idiosyncrasy is (apart from some later works such as the Carmelites opera) so much more high-spirited, fun-filled and defined by an infectious joi de vivre not always shared by those others. The Sinfonietta is a particularly lovely work for orchestra, brimming with a deliciously melodic invention which invariably brings a smile to the face. As ever, Pretre gets to the heart of the music with customary aplomb. Another fabulous upload!

@hectorbarrionuevo6034 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Max, his own “brand” of neoclassicism is very idiosyncratic .... also like one aspect of much of his music, which you mention, its energetic, uplifting quality.

@treesny Жыл бұрын

Like so many people, I think you have a rather limited, even distorted view of Poulenc's oeuvre. Even his early, supposedly "high-spirited" works have a strong vein of melancholy and dis-ease running through them. Pieces such as La bestiare and Aubade come to mind. And you appear to be unfamiliar with the great series of vocal works written from the mid-1930s on: song cycles like Tel jour, telle nuit and Calligrammes, choral works both sacred and secular, like the 4 Lenten Motets and 4 Christmas Motets, the Mass and Figure Humaine. And it's not only his operatic masterpiece Dialogues of the Carmelites that shows the deeper, darker side of human existence, but the monodrama La voix humaine and so much else. As far as his purely orchestral works go, delightful as the Sinfonietta is, I would turn to concertante works such as the Concert champetre, the Concerto for 2 Pianos and the Organ Concerto to show him at his peak in this area.

@maxmerry8470 Жыл бұрын

I'd be more impressed if you wrote this as a comment rather than as a reply. If I'm "like so many people" with "limited" or "distorted" views of Poulenc, then I'm sure "we" would all like to benefit from your insight, not just me alone. I tend to be wary of presumptuous repliers who insist on writing lists of the most important (in their opinion) works by a composer. It's arrogant and patronising. There's a reasonable Poulenc playlist on this channel so feel free to write some comments of your own on those uploads...... .

@keesvanes2311 3 жыл бұрын

In the 2nd part there are some lovely mood reminiscenses of Martinu’s ballet The Shadow, composed in 1916.

@TheOneAndOnlyZeno 2 жыл бұрын

This is some seriously juicy music... working on the complete score right now to upload to my channel in the next few days hopefully...

@Ncolasg 2 ай бұрын

wonderful!

@hectorbarrionuevo6034 2 жыл бұрын

This Sinfonieta is quite polystylistic: we hear music reminiscent of Haydn, late-19th-Century Romantic lyricism, Impressionism, Jazz, …. It seems there were as many neoclassical aesthetics as there were composers who wrote within that historical “-ism.”