The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the French composer and pianist Francis Poulenc . With notes by Jon Paxman. / Piano

Fr. Those intéressé à la musique française ont souvent eu raison d'être reconnaissants à Roger Nichols - ses écrits sur Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen et Poulenc sont indispensables à l'amant de la musique. Nichols tourne maintenant ses attentions à la mélodie, où il est sa mission d'encourager les chanteurs à explorer au-delà les chemins de l'Union de la chanson française. Dans ces deux anthologies, il n'ignore pas les chefs de oeuvres de compositeurs de la stature de Fauré et Duparc, mais eux définit aux côtés de musique - presque impossible de trouver ailleurs imprimée - par des personnalités comme Reber, Viardot, Massé et Paladilhe sous-estimé. Même les plus célèbres chansons sont souvent pas facilement trouver dans les éditions pratiques, qui rend cette sélection un point de départ idéal pour l'exploration plus large. Dans chacun de ces volumes les chansons apparaissent dans l'ordre chronologique de la naissance du compositeur, leurs, mais Nichols arrive d'une certaine manière un line-up de la musique qui semble délicieusement arbitraire en même temps aussi soigneusement conçu pour enrichir la compréhension de tout le monde... / Voix Et Piano

Fr. Those intéressé à la musique française ont souvent eu raison d'être reconnaissants à Roger Nichols - ses écrits sur Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen et Poulenc sont indispensables à l'amant de la musique. Nichols tourne maintenant ses attentions à la mélodie, où il est sa mission d'encourager les chanteurs à explorer au-delà les chemins de l'Union de la chanson française. Dans ces deux anthologies, il n'ignore pas les chefs de oeuvres de compositeurs de la stature de Fauré et Duparc, mais eux définit aux côtés de musique - presque impossible de trouver ailleurs imprimée - par des personnalités comme Reber, Viardot, Massé et Paladilhe sous-estimé. Même les plus célèbres chansons sont souvent pas facilement trouver dans les éditions pratiques, qui rend cette sélection un point de départ idéal pour l'exploration plus large. Dans chacun de ces volumes les chansons apparaissent dans l'ordre chronologique de la naissance du compositeur, leurs, mais Nichols arrive d'une certaine manière un line-up de la musique qui semble délicieusement arbitraire en même temps aussi soigneusement conçu pour enrichir la compréhension de tout le monde... / Voix Et Piano

This is an updated edition of Francis Poulenc's 1957 work Sonata For Flute And Piano, edited by Carl Schmidt. Featuring the full score and separate Clarinet part, this exclusive edition also includes a download card, giving you instant online access to demonstration and accompaniment tracks.After having begun a Sonata for Flute as early as 1952, questions arose over whether Poulenc would be able to complete this work on top of his various other compositions at the time. The piece was, thankfully, finally finished after being commissioned by Harold Spivacke, the Chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress, for a festival in honour of Elizabeth Coolidge. The world premiere, at Poulenc's request, took place at the Strasbourg Music Festival, performed by renowned flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal, while the American premiere took place in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress. This new edition includes an extensive introduction to the piece, a detailing of the different sources that were used, and the inherent difficulty of compiling such an edition as this, all in English, French and German. Furthermore, an in-depth discussion of the problems of authority, as well as a vast number of critical notes is included, giving a true sense of the care and attention that has gone into producing this new edition of Poulenc's Sonata For Flute And Piano. At all points, Schmidt has aimed to reproduce an authoritative and accurate score that is at once playable and a reflection of what Poulenc himself may have intended.What makes this edition of Sonata For Flute And Piano really special is the unique download card that provides exclusive online access to demonstration and accompaniment audio tracks. Professionally-recorded by renowned flautist Michael Cox and pianist Huw Watkins, the demonstration track allows you to hear exactly how the piece as a whole should sound, before the independent Piano-only track lets you take the place of the flautist in your very own performance. This is a unique opportunity for flautists to learn from an authoritative score, and play along to a special backing track, with a work that, since its premiere, has become one of the most frequently-performed and well-loved works in the Flute repertoire.For flautist fans of Francis Poulenc, lovers of Les Six, or just players with a proclivity for stunning music, this edition of Sonata For Flute And Piano has been a long-time coming, and now it's available in this unique edition with accompanying download card. / Flûte Et Piano

Some of the most beautiful and diverse pieces by some of the finest composers in recent history are included in this enormous Library Of Modern Piano Music. Such a comprehensive collection of brilliant works for solo Piano belies the rich quality and sheer amount of music being composed that just begs to be learned. Over 100 fantastic pieces are guaranteed to keep you learning from this truly classic selection until the next century!The Library Of Modern Piano Music boasts an unprecedented volume and variety of amazing compositions, some well-known, some more unfamiliar, some composed as standalone pieces and others as film scores, but the one thing uniting them all is their impeccable musicality and how enjoyable they are to play. Featuring the biggest names in contemporary classical music, composers like Einaudi lend their wonderful compositions (Primavera, Una Mattina), and all-round geniuses like Philip Glass are represented with a generous selection of their finest work (Metamorphosis Five, Opening Piece From Glassworks and more).The varied progression of Piano music through the 20th century to the present day has given rise to an exceptionally vast and diverse repertoire. The unbelievable depth of the composers included here means you'll rarely be stuck for something to play. Kaija Saariaho, Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Dustin O'Halloran, Nico Muhly and Witold Lutoslawski are genuinely just a fraction of the composers featured in The Library Of Modern Piano Music. Some great standalone compositions like Samuel Barber's incomparable Adagio For Strings sit aside excerpts from longer works like a portion of Edward Gregson's An Album For My Friends or Joby Talbot's Once Around The Sun.If you happen to be a fan of film and television scores, a taste of Michael Nyman's distinguished score for The Piano is included, a section from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as parts of Richard Rodney Bennett's score for the now rarely-seen but superb 1980s miniseries of Tender Is The Night. Many established composers are included in this collection who are widely-recognised as masters. However, The Library Of Modern Piano Music also includes many young virtuosos who have not yet achieved that status but are certainly well on their way.These original compositions span standalone pieces, albums, suites and arrangements from diverse talents, making The Library Of Modern Piano Music a collection that is certain to be seen by future generations as a perfect collection of the best of contemporary classical music. / Piano

Une Suite composée en 1920, en trois mouvements : 1/Presto, 2/Andante et 3/ Vif.
En janvier 1920, le critique Henri Collet a appelé Poulenc et cinq de ses amis compositeurs, le `Groupe des Six`, par analogie avec les Cinq Russes. Ce fut une marque pratique pour se faire de la publicité et Jean Cocteau, leur auto-proclamé porte-parole, fut rapide à saisir toutes les opportunités. Mais chacun des six insistait sur le fait que ce n'était qu'un groupe d'amis, sans but musical commun.
La Suite pour Piano de Poulenc et ses Impromptus pour piano se mariaient parfaitement avec les dires de Cocteau - ils sont clairs, insouciants et amusants. Mais les Promenades écrites en 1921 pour Artur Rubinstein, correspondent au côté plus sérieux de Poulenc, qui avait déjà du mal à se faire entendre.
Cette célébration en dix mouvements de différents modes de transport explore un certain nombres de nouvelles techniques musicales qui intriguaient les compositeurs dans les années 20. Le language qui en resortait devait être difficile à comprendre pour les pianistes de l'époque. / [Suite for Piano] / Classique / Partition /

' Tant qu'il y aura des poètes, il y aura des mélodies. Si l'on mettait sur ma tombe : 'Ci-gît Francis Poulenc, le musicien d'Apollinaire et d'Eluard?, il me semble que ce serait mon plus beau titre de gloire ', déclarait le compositeur en 1945. Depuis l'enfance, son amour de la poésie l'égalait presque à celui de la musique , c'est à partir de 1919 que le jeune Poulenc en vint à la mélodie.Son catalogue compte enfin 150 mélodies, un corpus de haute tenue, contrasté dans son unité, qui fait sans doute du compositeur le dernier grand représentant du genre. Le présent volume offre une sélection des mélodies les plus célèbres de Francis Poulenc, soit en tonalité originale soit en transposition avec de nouvelles gravures , poèmes originaux et traduction anglaise inclus.' Musique vocale française ' est une collection conçue pour les étudiants, les professeurs et les interprètes professionnels. / Chant Et Piano

During the visit to Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1940, Poulenc sketched a little piece for the children of his cousins: Sophie, Sylvie, Benoit, Florence and Delphine Périer, Yvan, Alain, Marie-Christine and Marguerite-Marie Villotte, and their two friends Marthe Bosredon and André Lecoeur. This took the form of a musical background to Jean de Brunhoff's popular illustrated children's story about Babar, a baby elephant whose mother is killed by a huntsman. Fortunately Babar meets a kind elderly lady who dresses him in a fine suit and gives him an impressive motor-car.However, Babar feels homesick for his forests, and is pleased when his cousins, Arthur and Celeste, find him and needs no persuasion to go home with them. Back in the forest, where the King of the Elephants has eaten a poisonous mushroom, Babar is elected to succeed as King. He marries Celeste, and the last we hear of him is thinking of a rosy future as he dreamily looks up at a marvellously star-filled sky.Poulenc's score, to which he returned and completed in 1945, is for a narrator and a Piano, so written that the individual sections offer the pianist a number of self-contained descriptive pieces, such as a Lullaby, a Reverie, a Galop, a Nocturne and so on. Indeed, some of Poulenc's finest Piano music is found in these charming pages.In 1962, Jean Françaix made an orchestral version, and Barbar has been enjoyed by children of all ages all over the world. An English translation of the text was made by Nelly Rieu.This particular edition is arranged for Narrator and Piano duet (1 Piano, 4 hands) and a separate insert with English translation is included. / Piano 4 Mains

Compilations regroupant les plus grands titres d'un genre musical spécialement regravées en piano, voix et diagrammes d'accord guitare ou en piano solo en format A4 spiralé afin qu'il reste 'plat' sur le support du piano.Titres : Miserere mei, Deus [Allegri] - Sarabande [Arnold, Malcolm] - Aria from Goldberg Variations [Bach, J.S.] - Badinerie (from Orchestral Suite #2 in B Minor) [Bach, J.S.] - Prelude #11 in F Major (from The Well-Tempered Clavier) [Bach, J.S.] - Solfeggietto in C Minor [Bach, C.P.E.] - Symphony #7 - II. Allegretto [Beethoven] - Two Turtle Doves (from Partridge Pie) [Bennett, R.R.] - Prelude #6 (from Six Preludes) [Berkeley, Lennox] - Prelude from L'Arlésienne [Bizet] - Polovtsian Dances (from Prince Igor) [Borodin] - Wiegenlied (Lullaby) [Brahms] - Violin Concerto #1 - II. Adagio [Bruch] - Piano Concerto #1 - II. Larghetto (Romance) [Chopin] - Prelude in C Minor, Op.28 #20 [Chopin] - Waltz in A-flat Major, Op.69 #1 [Chopin] - Les Baricades Mistérieuses [Couperin] - The Little Shepherd (from Children's Corner) [Debussy] - Sarabande [Einaudi, Ludovico] - Snow Prelude #2 [Einaudi, Ludovico] - Nimrod (Var IX from 'Enigma' Variations) [Elgar] - Homenaje (Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy) [de Falla] - Agnus Dei (from Requiem in D Minor, Op.48) [Fauré] - Sicilienne, Op.78 [Fauré] - The North Pole (from Frozen Planet) [Fenton, George] - Prelude #1 (from Three Preludes For Piano) [Gershwin, George] - Metamorphosis Five [Glass, Philip] - Opening Piece from Glassworks [Glass, Philip] - Piano Concerto, Op.16 - I. Allegro Moderato (opening) [Grieg] - Hornpipe (Alla Danza) (from Water Music) [Handel] - Symphony #94 'The Surprise' - II. Andante [Haydn] - Consolation #5 [Liszt] - Paganini Variations (excerpts) [Lutoslawski, Witold] - Hebrides Overture ('Fingal's Cave') [Mendelssohn] - Overture to The Marriage of Figaro [Mozart] - Piano Concerto #21 in C Major - II. Andante [Mozart] - Promenade (From Pictures At An Exhibition) [Mussorgsky] - Big My Secret (from The Piano) [Nyman, Michael] - Jerusalem [Parry] - Sonata For Flute - 2nd Movement [Poulenc] - Mouvements Perpétuels - #1 [Poulenc] - Nessun Dorma (from Turandot) [Puccini] - Rondeau (from Abdelazer) [Purcell] - Piano Concerto #2 - II. Adagio Sostenuto [Rachmaninoff] - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Var XI and XVIII [Rachmaninoff] - Vocalise (No.14 from Fourteen Songs, Op.34) [Rachmaninoff] - Pavane (from Mother Goose) [Ravel] - Written On The Sky [Richter, Max] - The Elephant (from The Carnival Of The Animals) [Saint-Saëns] - Sonata in E Major, L.23 K.380 [Scarlatti, Domenico] - Unfinished' Symphony - I. Allegro Moderato [Schubert] - Sicilienne (from Album For The Young) [Schumann] - Prelude, Op.11 #15 [D-flat major] [Scriabin] - Romance in D-flat (No.9 from 10 Pieces for Piano, Op.24) [Sibelius] - The Firebird Suite - Finale [Stravinsky, Igor] - The Lamb [Tavener, John] - 1812 Overture [Tchaikovsky] - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (from The Nutcracker Suite) [Tchaikovsky] - Dies Irae (from Requiem) [Verdi] - Autumn (1st movt) (from The Four Seasons) [Vivaldi] - Ride of the Valkyries [Wagner] - Vltava (The Moldau) (from Má Vlast) [Smetena] / Piano/Vocal/Guitare (PVG)

Par POULENC FRANCIS. The Piano reduction of Poulenc's choreographic concerto for piano and 18 instruments./ Répertoire / Piano

Recueil Piano-Nocturnes is a set of 8 pieces for piano by Francis Poulenc. Composed between 1929 and 1938 for intermediate players this set was composed as a cycle and represents night scenes of different events. They can be differentiated from most of the other nocturnes as they are not romantic tone-poems. Nocturnes’s eight pieces are:- 1st Nocturne (C Major)- 2nd Nocturne – Young girl's ball / Bal de jeunes filles (A Major) - 3rd Nocturne – Maines’ bells / Les Cloches de Maines (F Major) - 4th Nocturne – Ghost’s Ball / Bal fantome (C minor) - 5th Nocturne–Moths / Phalenes (B minor) - 6th Nocturne (G major) - 7th Nocturne (Cb major) - 8th Nocturne (For Coda) Francis Poulenc is French compositor and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces Operas ('Dialogues des Carmélites') ballets ('Les Biches') as well as some Orchestra works.

Par POULENC FRANCIS. This charming suite, published in 1935, bears the subtitle d'après Claude Gervaise (16e siècle) and displays Poulenc 's inimitable blend of the archaic and the anarchic. The sheet music based on the music of Claude Gervaise, was composed as incidental music for the play La Reine Margot. It is origanally scored for pairs of Oboes, Bassoons and Trumpets, three Trombones, Percussion and Harpsichord and then re-arranged for solo Piano in the same year./ Répertoire / Piano

Born in Paris in 1899 Francis Poulenc soon became a notable composer and pianist. His Trois Pièces for Piano were composed in 1928 towards the beginning of his career and paved the way for exceptional Piano works from the composer. Poulenc as a member of Les Six composed music in a style contrary to that of Richard Wagner and impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Trois Pièces for Piano is made up of three movements 1. Pastorale 2. Hymne and 3. Toccata all of which exploit the Piano to its full potential. Being an imaginative and evocative composition TroisPièces for Piano is a pleasure to play for all pianists.