Poulenc Two Piano Concerto Second Movement

Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestras with Francis Poulenc, Jacques Février and Orchestra National de la RTF conducted by Georges Prêtre.

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[quarknugget]

violinist looks really bored at 2:34

[freakheavy]

hilarious, but you never know: to you and me, this stuff is beautiful, but to those people, at the ages they were then, maybe this stuff seemed like c.s.i. seems to me now - they just didn't want to know, being rooted in a whole other thing somewhere back in the past - could they have thought it vulgar, superficial? crazy thought.

[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.

[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

[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

[mapianong]

@conetkacat me too !... :)

[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.)

[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.

[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.

[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.