Poulenc: Piano Music

This new recording presents a delightful selection of Poulenc’s piano music. The Trois Mouvements Perpétuels, Huit Nocturnes, Villageoises, Trois Novelettes, Napoli Suite and two Waltzes, music of great charm, seductive, touching and intimate, or exuberant and jolly.

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Composers: Francis Poulenc
Artist: Chiara Cipelli (piano)

This new album presents a fine selection of piano music by Poulenc, starting with the intriguing little Valse (1919) from L’Album des Six, which first presented in published form the collective of Franco-Swiss composers who came to be known under that title. As the fruit of a trip to Italy in the company of Darius Milhaud, a fellow Les Six-er, Napoli is a suite written in 1925 and presenting Italian forms through the light of Poulenc’s irrepressible personality.

More affecting are the eight Nocturnes, composed between 1929 and 1938, and the three Novelettes (1927-1959), while the ’Six petites pièces enfantines’ that make up the Villageoises of 1933 share the a spirit of gentle playfulness with Poulenc’s popular musical tale, Babar the Elephant. One day when Poulenc was improvising on the piano, his cousin’s little girl exclaimed: “Grandfather, it’s so boring when you play like that, why don’t you play us this?”. And in 1945, once the dreadful war years were over, Poulenc was happy to oblige.

The Trois Mouvements perpétuels are early pieces, a product of the kaleidoscopic ‘harlequin years’ of Paris in the 1920s. The three movements reveal a musical freshness and fluidity somewhat reminiscent of Satie, whose individualistic approach to life and art inspired the members of Les Six, to whom he served as a kind of honorary president. Finally, Poulenc evokes the spirit of Bach returns in a surprising guise in the Valse-Improvisation sur le nom de Bach, a piece bursting with vitality, in perfect keeping with the famous pianist Vladimir Horowitz, to whom it was dedicated.

Two previous albums by Chiara Cipelli on Brilliant Classics and Piano Classics have won enthusiastic praise from reviewers in Fanfare magazine. The piano music of Bruno Bettinelli is ‘presented with wonderful vigour and colour by the fine young Lombardy native Chiara Cipelli’ (   • Bettinelli: Piano Music  ), while ‘Cipelli’s technical capabilities are impressive throughout’ her selection of early Messiaen pieces (   • Messiaen: 8 Préludes, Ile de feu I & ...  ).

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Tracklist:
00:00 Valse for l’album des six, FP 17

Napoli, suite pour piano, FP 40:
02:07 I. Barcarolle
03:57 II. Nocturne
07:09 III. Caprice italien

8 Nocturnes, FP 56:
12:43 I. Sans trainer
16:03 II. Très animé. Bal des jeunes filles
17:20 III. Modéré mais sans lenteur. Les cloches de Malines
20:42 IV. Lent, très las et piano. Bal fantôme
22:17 V. Presto misterioso. Phalènes
23:43 VI. Très calme mais sans trainer
27:12 VII. Assez allant
29:25 VIII. Très modéré. Pour servir de coda au cycle

Villageoises, FP 65:
31:52 I. Valse tyrolienne
32:32 II. Staccato
33:25 III. Rustique
34:26 IV. Polka
35:01 V. Petite ronde
35:58 VI. Coda

3 Novelettes:
36:52 I. Ut majeur
39:51 II. Si bémol mineur
41:30 III. Mi mineur

3 Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14a:
44:01 I. Assez modéré
45:20 II. Très modéré
47:22 III. Alerte

50:32 Valse-improvisation sur le nom de Bach, FP 62

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