Progetto Martha Argerich

italiano

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Francis Poulenc

Sonata for clarient and piano Op. 184

 

Born into an extremely rich family, Francis Poulenc was a musician of typically Parisian tastes and training, an eclectic, brilliant composer, and a creator of music that was simple, clean and linear; it was as distant as possible from Impressionism’s ambiguities and innuendoes. Poulenc’s music was always characterised by fresh, inexhaustible rhythmic imagination, which allowed him to separate himself with a degree of ease from the other members of the group of composers who called themselves “Les Six”. Poulenc wrote the Sonata for clarient and piano in 1962. Like most of his sonatas, this one is made up of three movements, and it begins with an Allegro tristamente [sic], in which moments of bizarre liveliness alternate with a middle section of a more reflective nature. The middle movement is a meditative Romanza, and it is followed by a lightning-like, very short Allegro con fuoco, full of high spirits and animation.

1. Allegro tristamente (Allegretto - Très calme - Tempo allegretto)
2. Romanza (Très calme)
3. Allegro con fuoco (Très animé)

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