Poulenc Two Piano Concerto Second Movement

[RWinkley02124]

The Mozart reference is even more striking - This movement hearkens back to Mozart K. 466 (d minor concerto) - key is the same as the Poulenc - nothing like a little nostalgia in the hands of FP

[Tinaelle24]

@RWinkley02124 Yes you are right, but you can also find that it sounds like Mozart K.537!

Poulenc loved Mozart, his mother used to teach him Mozart when he was small.

[gmagliozzi08]

Saw this at New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Popejoy Hall, around 1992, with Fine and Fine. Poulenc must have been quite old when this was shot. Looks sort of like Louis Armstrong?? We did his Gloria in Excelsis Deo on the same bill with the Vivaldi Gloria with Nelson Sweglar at Johns Hopkins around 1967. Sounds perhaps a little repetitious but it worked great, like anything Nelson put together. Anyone know the conductor, orchestra, venue, date and name of 2'd pianoforte soloist?

Merci, Giuseppe

[p8ja]

I very like this concert , today reading texts bellow and after that listening Mozarts concerts I must agree that Poulenc was probably realy inspired by his music. Mozarts Requiem is also strongly inspired by Michael Haydn. I feel that new music need not be definitely original, it could be part of existing music but both , Poulenc and Mozart were able to move their pieces forwards in very new way.

[conetkacat]

Poulenc's music is so beautiful. It reaches down into my soul. I don't think my friends would understand him, in fact they would think i flippt out if they knew i listen too this stuff. they listen to country. i feel soo alone sometimes. (not that there is anything wrong with country, it's just completly lost on me.)

[mapianong]

@conetkacat me too !... :)

[MuseDuCafe]

Yes, Poulenc was / is retro-conservative, but there is some genial adventure in much of his work. I think Mozart-like, without being derivative, a very high form of compliment. Check his "Promenades," for piano, or some of the more surreal of the Nocturnes. Acerbic and perfect bitonality - and a real pleasure. A very fine, imho, under-rated musician.

[netherledy]

@MuseDuCafe your assessment is expressed much better than I ever could manage. yet it does capture the 1920s and 30s in a wonderful way.

[MrLindenson]

I've listened to this piece waay too many times. It's so good though

[francie760]

This piece sounds a bit like Mozart. There are some very interesting melodic ideas expressed in this piece.

[zuidmid]

uh m hoi ik vind dit wel grappig

[Cleamena]

Amazing movement...simply beautiful

[zoranrosendahl]

@freakheavy They thought Poulenc's music was conservatif.

[jeffbrak]

This reminds me of Mozart's 20th piano concerto, 2nd movement. Nice homage.

[hervedavid77]

Je ne m'en lasse pas. Mille fois merci.

[belianis]

Mozart would have loved the tune that opens and closes this movement.

[zoranrosendahl]

Who is the goof who clicked the thumbs down?

[Pistaccio100]

Während ich als ausländische Studentin in Deutschland war, habe ich jeden Tag im Winter dieses Stuck und das "First Movement" zugehört. Meine Erinnerungsmusik.

[mahler151]

French orchestra, French pianists, French composer, American Pianos. it's official, the Steinway is EVERY country's piano.

[oyoynine]

@mahler151

No, not at all in Austria ! Bösendorfer is the one and only !! :-)

[mahler151]

@oyoynine If you can find one, maybe....Seems like those things are rarer than any other piano.

[TourneledosRossini]

Il y a dans ce mouvement un superbe clin d'oeil à l'andante du concerto 21 du Maître Mozart par le Maître Poulenc.

[fwu425]

thank you so much for posting this- seeing poulenc play his own work is really, really amazing. thank you!!

[TourneledosRossini]

Superbe reflet d'une époque où la télévision française donnait dans la qualité...

[DShadow911]

one of my most FAVORITE piano concertos

[quarknugget]

violinist looks really bored at 2:34

[tueslabelledujour]

I love love love love love love love love LOVE Mr Poulenc!!!!

[doktordrakator]

It is like you are going for a walk in the park on a warm autumn day, listening to a Mozart Concerto on your Ipod and suddenly (1.07) you realize how vain everything is...

[bobareebop]

Outstanding audio quality considering this performance dates from before January 30, 1963!

[ouinonyes]

an amazingly beautiful piece, i can sense Mozart in this...~~~~~~~~

[boyspuros]

amazing. amazing.

[eiridike]

I LOVE THIS!!!

[licoricestic]

yeah about the musicians' expressions...if you notice poulenc is missing some notes here and there, but its understandable considering his age.

[bobareebop]

He was I believe 64 when he died, so no older than that when this was filmed.

[xiuje87]

haha the conductor is so cute, he has dimples

[bartje11]

What's up with the orchestra? Check out the look on the faces of the a..h..es! They seem to hate the music. Watch the 2:35 mark, female violinist followed by the whole bunch of them. Such beautiful Music!

[bobareebop]

Yeah, it's really sad that she looks the way she does. She probably had no idea that she was playing a masterpiece.

[lsbrother]

Is it not possible that a professional musician playing in an orchestra could have at least as good idea as you as to the worth of what she was playing?

[yumyumwhatzohai]

Or could be that cameras are relatively new so the people just aren't as photogenic as we are now, so they just don't know how to act in front of one.

[leon0901lisa0203]

I heard this works at Nice Internationale Academie in 2007 ! Someday I wanna play !

[lucamadeus]

great historic document! immense Poulenc...

[kungfulicious2]

lol did you see the conductor at the end?

[paisjose]

É uma grande emoção assistir o próprio Poulenc interpretando seu concerto para dois pianos. Poulenc foi um grande musico e um grande ser humano cheio de sentimentos maravilhosos

[ipmoic]

Jackkleijn--do you know when this was recorded? I remember playing Poulenc's clarinet Sonata shortly after he wrote it! (1964) This is indeed a priceless video with 3 great artists.

[Sanrus]

This has to be one of the most amazing videos I have ever watched, plus the gorgeous music. Poulenc is one of my favorite composers, and it's such a memorable experience to see him at the piano. Thanks for posting such a treasure!

[thethikboy]

The reference to Mozart and the eighteenth century is obvious. Poulenc's neo-classical impressionism is gorgeous. The best of the old and the new.

[chad410]

I love this concerto so much.

[Lervanjanberghe]

This part of the concerto reminds me very much of the slow movement of the d-minor concerto by Mozart. And, the harmonie of the first movement in Poulenc's concerto reminds me of the fast passage in that same slow movement bij Mozart. Would Poulenc have done this on purpose?