Composer: Alban Berg, Johannes Brahms, Jean Françaix, Francis Poulenc, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Wagner
Performer: Eva-Maria May, Klaus Kämper
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Solo Musica
Catalogue: SM379
Release: 2021
Size: 531 MB
Recovery: +3%
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Poulenc: Le travail du peintre
01. No. 1, Pablo Picasso
02. No. 2, Marc Chagall
03. No. 3, Georges Braque
04. No. 4, Juan Gris
05. No. 5, Paul Klee
06. No. 6, Joan Miró
07. No. 7, Jacques Villon
08. Poulenc: Cello Sonata, Op. 143: II. Cavatine
09. Françaix: Sérénade for orchestra
Françaix: Les demoiselles de la nuit (The Ladies of the Night)
10. Nocturne (Arr. M. Gendron for Piano & Cello)
Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
11. No. 3, Die Nachtigall (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
Poulenc: Chansons gaillardes
12. No. 8, Sérénade (Arr. M. Gendron for Piano & Cello)
Rachmaninov: Songs, Op. 34
13. No. 14, Vocalise (Arr. for Cello & Piano)
Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
14. No. 1, Der Engel
15. No. 2, Stehe still!
16. No. 3, Im Treibhaus
17. No. 4, Schmerzen
18. No. 5, Träume
Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
19. IV. Allegro molto
Poèmes are wayfarers crossing borders between language and music. What had mostly been called Lied/Song before, has often been seen as poems in the past 200 years: Richard Wagner gave his Wesendonck-Liedern the title “Five Poems for Female Voice and Piano” and Francis Poulenc composed around 30 Poèmes to be sung and accompanied musically.
Just as with Lied, which also exists without words (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy), a “Poème” does not necessarily have to be based on a text. Alexander Scriabin, for example, composed 20 Poèmes for piano solo at the beginning of the last century. Francis Poulenc, the Janus-headed French composer, is difficult to grasp – it is impossible to peg a label on him. Yet, he has always remained stylistically faithful in his adherence to tonality, the emphasis on melodic elements, the refined simplicity of texture and his effort for clarity and comprehensibilty true to his motto: „There is also room for new music , that does not mind applying the chords of other people“.