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Poulenc - Les Animaux Modeles, etc | Avie AV2135

Poulenc - Les Animaux Modeles, etc

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Label: Avie

Cat No: AV2135

Barcode: 0822252213522

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 24th September 2007

Contents

Works

Poulenc, Francis

Concert champetre
Improvisations
» no.13 in A minor
» no.15 in C minor 'Hommage a Edith Piaf'
Les Animaux modeles

Artists

Stefano Bollani (piano)
Filarmonica ‘900 del Teatro Regio di Torino

Conductor

Jan Latham-Koenig

Works

Poulenc, Francis

Concert champetre
Improvisations
» no.13 in A minor
» no.15 in C minor 'Hommage a Edith Piaf'
Les Animaux modeles

Artists

Stefano Bollani (piano)
Filarmonica ‘900 del Teatro Regio di Torino

Conductor

Jan Latham-Koenig

About

Turin’s hidden musical diamond must be the superb Filarmonica ‘900 del Teatro Regio di Torino, a new orchestral force in the Italian orchestral scene. For their first CD they have chosen two remarkably talented musicians to partner them. Jan Latham-Koenig needs little introduction and is a renowned French music specialist. In addition to his award-winning DVD of Poulenc’s 'Dialogues des Carmélites' (Arthaus), his recording of Ibert’s short opera Persée et Andromede on Avie has been one of the label’s most significant early successes.

Jan now returns to Poulenc with a recording of the complete ballet Les Animaux modèles, a rarity on record and deserving to be much better known. In the Concert champêtre he is joined by a young Italian pianist who is taking concert halls throughout Europe by storm. Best known as a jazz pianist, especially on the renowned ECM label, Stefano Bollani returns here to his classical roots playing the piano version of the ‘Concert’ which is better known as a work for harpsichord and orchestra. Poulenc himself, however, performed the work himself as piano soloist.

Bollani goes on to resurrect an almost lost tradition by elaborating on the two Improvisations written for the purpose by Poulenc. Jazz is never very far away!

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