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Vintage Defauw broadcast helps plugs a gap in CSO history
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-19 14:56:00
Francis Poulenc: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor – Alexandеr Malofeev, Sandro Nebieridze, State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov", Alexander Sladkovsky (HD 1080p)
Accompanied by the State Academic Symphony Orchestra "Evgeny Svetlanov" under the baton of the vibrant Russian conductor Alexander Sladkovsky, the young pianists Alexandеr Malofeev (Russia) and Sandro Nebieridze (Georgia) perform Francis Poulenc's Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor. Recorded at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, on April 29, 2018.✻Poulenc composed this music in 1932, and played the first performance with Jacques Fevrier on September 5 during the Fifth International Music Festival in Venice, with Désire Defauw conducting the La Scala Orchestra from Milan. It is scored for double winds and brass plus piccolo, English horn, tuba, assorted drums, and reduced strings.While Poulenc was studying with Koechlin, Serge Diaghilev commissioned him to write Les biches (colloquially "The Girls") for his Ballets Russes. Produced in 1924, this made Poulenc famous. He solidified his reputation in 1928 with the delectable Concert champêtre for harpsichord. The saucy-sentimental Two-Piano Concerto followed in […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-02-14 11:01:00
George Gershwin: An American in Paris | Darius Milhaud: Un français à New York, & La création du monde | Francis Poulenc: Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre in D minor – Christina and Michelle Naughton, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin – Friday, February 16, 2018, 08:00 PM EST (UTC-5) / Saturday, February 17, 2018, 3:00 AM EET (UTC+2) – Live on Livestream
[…] a man and woman. The couple performs a sassy, syncopated dance of creation; the music becomes gentler and the man and woman are left alone on-stage to welcome the first spring.Source: James Reel (allmusic.com)✻Francis Poulenc: Concerto pour deux pianos et orchestre / Concerto for two pianos and orchestra in D minor, FP 61Poulenc composed this music in 1932, and played the first performance with Jacques Fevrier on September 5 during the Fifth International Music Festival in Venice, with Désire Defauw conducting the La Scala Orchestra from Milan. It is scored for double winds and brass plus piccolo, English horn, tuba, assorted drums, and reduced strings.While Poulenc was studying with Koechlin, Serge Diaghilev commissioned him to write Les biches (colloquially "The Girls") for his Ballets Russes. Produced in 1924, this made Poulenc famous. He solidified his reputation in 1928 with the delectable Concert champêtre for harpsichord. The saucy-sentimental Two-Piano Concerto followed in 1932, commissioned by […]
2016-09-18 23:44:21
[…] Before travelling back on Tuesday I took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent some time exploring the city and loved catching up with friends from the Italian summer school from last summer, Astrid Defauw and Alexandra Franck. Alexandra showed us all around Antwerp explaining the history of her beautiful home City. Tomorrow will be my first day at the Royal College of Music and the anticipation of starting a new stage in my training is raising my excitement levels to new heights. Though it was sad to say goodbye to my family this afternoon after we finished unpacking, it will be great to start putting into […]
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