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Poulenc & Koechlin - Couleurs | Odradek Records ODRCD364

Poulenc & Koechlin - Couleurs

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Label: Odradek Records

Cat No: ODRCD364

Barcode: 0855317003646

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 31st January 2020

Contents

Artists

Artur Pizarro (piano)
Bamberger Symphoniker

Conductor

Thomas Rosner

Works

Koechlin, Charles

Sur les flots lointains, op.130
Vers la voute etoilee, op.129

Poulenc, Francis

Piano Concerto
Sinfonietta

Artists

Artur Pizarro (piano)
Bamberger Symphoniker

Conductor

Thomas Rosner

About

Artur Pizarro performs Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concerto with Bamberger Symphoniker directed by Thomas Rösner, alongside Poulenc’s Sinfonietta and two rare, glittering gems from Charles Koechlin. This release is a co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Following the success of Artur Pizarro’s recordings of Rachmaninov’s Complete Piano Music on Odradek, hailed in Gramophone as “courageous and poetic” and praised by BBC Music Magazine for his “dazzling finger dexterity”, the “poet amongst pianists” returns with Poulenc’s Piano Concerto. The last of Poulenc’s concertos, this work is jaunty and playful whilst exuding an irresistible Romanticism. Poulenc’s Sinfonietta is a full-scale symphony in all but name, its self-deprecating title a reflection of the composer’s sense of humour and the work’s colourful, urbane character.

Charles Koechlin is best known for his vast orchestral ‘Jungle Book’ cycle, but was a prolific composer of tone poems on an array of themes. Both Vers la voûte étoilée, op.129, and Sur les flots lointains, op.130, date from 1933, and both were published posthumously in 1996. Vers la voûte étoilée (‘Towards the vault of stars’) creates a sense of awe and mystery, reflecting Koechlin’s early ambition to become an astronomer. In the elegiac Sur les flots lointains (‘On the distant waves’), Koechlin makes use of a melody composed by American composer, Catherine Murphy Urner.

The Bamberger Symphoniker has caught the world’s attention as an orchestra of depth and imagination, its BBC Proms 2019 performance praised in The Times as “stunning... idiomatic, impassioned, blazing with energy and power... virtuosically played, and enthrallingly pictorial.” The orchestra is directed on this album by the prolific and versatile Viennese conductor, Thomas Rösner.

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