Manchester Camerata, John Andrews
Release Date: 26 April 2024
Label: Resonus Classics
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060262793749
Genres: Classical Chamber Music
Composer/Series: Poulenc
Description
* Poulenc the miniaturist par excellence burst into public view, fully-formed in his late teens, emerging flamboyantly into the artistic swirl of 1920s Paris. * His fabulously inventive, quirky and colourful approach to writing for chamber ensemble and voice comes vividly to life in this set of early works which capture all of his youthful elegance, wit, and occasionally sardonic humour. * Many of these early masterpieces are now well-known in their incarnations for piano; but his sheer inventiveness and joyful revelry in a kaleidoscopic riot of instrumental colour is celebrated here in the earliest versions of such classics as Le Bestiaire and Cocardes, alongside masterpieces more cruelly treated by his contemporaries, the Quatre Poemes de Max Jacob and Le Gendarme Incompris.
Aida Lahlou (piano)
St Martin's Voices; Stephen Farr; Andrew Earis
Sakuntala Trio
The Rautio Piano Trio
Stephen Farr (organ)
Sami Junnonen (flute); Helsinki Chamber Orchestra; James S. Kahane (conductor)
Matthew Owens (organ)
James Akers (guitar)
