Poulenc Two Piano Concerto Third Movement

[Bigbug123456]

Tim Burtons A Nightmare Before Christmas Santy Claws Song!

[WASSUPFOOISH]

I WANT POULENC HANDS :)

[sabirfk]

I dont understand in which way a composer needs to have read a score of his own music.

[eribani]

@sabirfk write a 20 page story and then try to say it all by heart after writing it.

[francie760]

I thought that this piece sounded like Mozart in the second movement Poulenc dispells that in this movement.

[skateboarddirk]

geoges pretre.. my favorite conductor... he doesn't need his hands, his face expresses every note... wonderful

[GoTFCanada1230]

There were gamelan (Indonesian instrument) and Mozart references here. Nice combo. I like it.

[shaguree]

AAAAAAAAAAH! THAT SEEMS VERY HARD!!! By the way, what a marvelous performance!

[Rastattt]

Der geniale Meister selbst am Klavier. Herz-zerreißend schön diese Aufnahme...

[brunettesdohavesouls]

Truly excellent. Several recordings out there of this work, but always best to see what the composer intended in performance practice.

[Karasusu]

@somedudeplayingpiano what's wrong about rachmaninoff? sorry i'm fresh on the boat.

[hmstitanic]

Thank you so much !

[lavdv11]

i just looove those sudden endings :)

[NewYorkCritiC]

What an amazing video!Fantastic!

[licoricestic]

now i know why poulenc loves to use "tres sec" in his music 1:24

[gmagliozzi08]

I can't help but notice his influence on contemporary jazz and even rock, and the styles of Gershwin, Samuel Barber and Brubeck in particular. In fact the phenomenon of the Frnech musical contribution of the latter 19'th century, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Bizet and in particular Offenbach influences not only les six but the entire genre of what we call rock and pop here in the States.

[Karasusu]

@gmagliozzi08 i think it's the reverse, jazz and popular french song back then influenced him. Poulenc was highly eclectic yet he create his own style out of what he learned. It's almost impossible copy his style.

[StCorentin]

@Karasusu

Poulenc has not studied composition at the Paris Conservatory, but with private teachers. This is important to understand that his music is not really academic even if it is neo-classical.

[BromleyReviews]

Utterly Fabulous.. Anyone else notice the motifs from his own works... such as The 2nd Novelette, in Bb, for example, 0.45-0.51? Brilliant piece, that is the whole Concerto! 5/5

[chu10rro]

I agree that it's fabulous. I also agree that he used motifs from his own works, like a couple of passages from the Piano Sextet, another favorite of mine.

[TourneledosRossini]

Je ne m'en lasse pas. Quel sentiment raffiné dans cette modernité d'écriture. Cela donne une autre dimension à l'espace qui nous entoure.

[morakeo]

Does anyone know why at 4:24 Poulenc stops playing and Fevrier continues? In the score everything is written for the 1st piano.

[fwu425]

i noticed that too! strange.

[operastud82]

I think Fevrier is playing 1st piano, not Poulenc.

[morakeo]

Poulenc's plays the 1st piano. I've studied this Concerto. But why do they split it up?

[szeyuhey]

Obviously because Poulenc said so.

[morakeo]

OK, but where does he say so?

[szeyuhey]

He was playing his own music and he didn't say anything.

[morakeo]

that I can imagine, but you wrote "he said so", so I guessed that maybe you had read something about it.

[szeyuhey]

Well I supposed it had to be him to tell the others to do it this way, or someone else had propsed the idea to him in that case he would have said something like, "Oui."

[Karasusu]

@morakeo some one commented in the first movement said they swap parts occasionally when it was too difficult for Poulenc ;)

[pianocanival]

This is simply incredible, the masses on the orchestra the multiple effects on the piano, everything..... Thanks for posting this!

[pianistazinho]

Oui, monsieur nativehugh, "la vie un rose" et monsieur Poulenc c'est un rose. C'est la vie musicale.

[goldberg72]

e glii altri movimenti nn ti piacciono? mi sai dire il nome dell'altro pianista? uno e' poulenc...

[intermerdacce]

jaques février

[goldberg72]

grazie

[Lebowski53]

Ha! What a pleasant surprise.

I loved this piece when I was reading music at Uni. And the final melody....good stuff.

[leroyosmon]

Wonderful... thank you for posting this!

[nairigrigorian]

què hermoso regalo,Tigran...no lo conocía...es una obra deseada ya...

[nativehugh]

"La vie en rose"?

[goodridgewinners]

i dont find anything wrong with him going at this speed. you can hear every note.

are you looking at a URTEXT edition of the composition? (correct me if im wrong on this) Poulenc could have intended this piece to be at this speed shown here...and then some editors may have sped it up.

DONT GO OFF AT ME lol. im just saying that this could be the issue.

When Debussy played the sunken cathedral, he played it different to everyone else...and well its his, so of course it is correct.

[DariusKlavier]

You see... Février DOES play it at its proper tempo, and he's playing along with Poulenc, so I don't think it's an edition-issue.

And actually, when there is a difficult bit in the Piano-I part, he changes parts with Février. It's actually really funny...

[lamorlayefrance]

Whatever the reasons for the tempo, this is His composition after all and his affectations take precedence over ours.

Personally I find his hand position and fluid dexterity indicative of his great ability.

[DariusKlavier]

I think it's fairly obvious. He just can't play it at proper tempo. Really valuable recording, for it's always an honour to watch/listen to a composer play their own compositions... But he's already quite old, and his fingers can't cope with it.

Amazing concerto... i'm currently working on it... Thanks for the videos!

[ipmoic]

Does anyone have the video of Poulenc accompanying a young singer in some of his songs? I saw it on the ARTS television station some time back. Also, Poulenc fans should listen to Poulenc play his SEXTUOR with (I think) members of the Philadelphia Orchestra) His is such wistful, free and romantic playing.

[Lervanjanberghe]

And here the melody on 03:08 reminds me of a famous Edith Piaf song!