Tonight, pianist Gila Goldstein performs a recital at Boston University including Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15. The 1959 piece, last in a series of Improvisations spanning Poulenc’s career, ...

How do you make a piano sing? Italian-born pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi tackles the question on his new album, The Rascal and the Sparrow, a tribute to Francis Poulenc and Edith Piaf, two titans of ...

The Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s recent concert, "The Next Generation," served as the Philippine debut of Otavio Licad Meneses, son of internationally renowned Filipino pianist ...

Poulenc was both sociable and well connected. His many friends included one of the most influential pianists of the day, Ricardo Viñes. Poulenc could claim many of the leading performers, artists and ...

Pascal Rogé‘s pedigree in French music is formidable, and at no time was he more in vogue than when recording the works of Debussy, Ravel, Fauré and Poulenc for Decca from the 1980s onwards. The ...

Fizz, froth and high jinks characterise this album of music for two pianos. The Concerto for two pianos written by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu in 1943, early in his US exile, is breezy and ...

Thursday afternoon was a beautiful day for duo-piano concertos over in Davies Symphony Hall -- so beautiful that in good baseball fashion, they decided to play two. Appearing with Michael Tilson ...

Is Poulenc the cheeky musical magpie that so many imagine him to be? The composer who delved in and out of styles as if he were changing clothes, and who was at his best when his mood was one of ...

That Bartók's choral music is largely unknown outside Hungary is due to several factors. Most importantly, “The texts are for the most part untranslatable, and, in translation, are unsingable.” So ...

Schnittke: Suite In The Old Style - 1. Pastorale; Schnittke: Suite In The Old Style - 2. Ballet; Schnittke: Suite In The Old Style - 3. Menuett; Schnittke: Suite In The Old Style - 4. Fuge; Schnittke: ...

A review of Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols. Poulenc’s personality in and outside his music is plumbed in Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols, a celebrated British scholar. As a composer, ...