POULENC Concerto for 2 Pianos, Anna Barutti - Massimo Somenzi, Diego Matheuz Orchestra La Fenice

Francis Poulenc - Concerto for two pianos in D minor FP61
Anna Barutti - Massimo Somenzi, piano
Diego Matheruz, conductor
Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice

"Stagione Sinfonica 2015 del Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venezia"
Live Recording - 28 February 2015

Remastered by Arksoundtek - 30 October 2024
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00:00 Allegro ma non troppo
08:48 Larghetto
15:02 Allegro molto

Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra was composed in 1932 on commission from Winnaretta Singer, daughter of the sewing machine magnate who had become the Marquise de Polignac. Poulenc was a frequent guest at Palazzo Contarini Polignac on the Grand Canal. In 1932 Maurice Ravel had recently completed his two piano concertos (Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Concerto for Piano for the Left Hand), the first of which Poulenc certainly took inspiration from for this work. Performed for the first time in Venice in the same year, as part of the Biennale Contemporary Music Festival – the composer himself as soloist together with Jacques Février, for whom the composition had been conceived.