Track Listing

1. Trois mouvements perp�tuels, for piano, FP 14: I. Assez mod�r�
2. Trois mouvements perp�tuels, for piano, FP 14: II. Tr�s mod�r�
3. Trois mouvements perp�tuels, for piano, FP 14: III. Alerte
4. Novelettes (2) for piano, FP 47: No. 1 in C
5. Novelettes (2) for piano, FP 47: No. 2 in B flat minor
6. Novelette sur un th�me de Manuel de Falla, for piano in E minor (No. 3), FP 173
7. Valse (pour Micheline Soul�), for piano in C major (for collab. work, Album des Six), FP 17
8. Pastourelle for piano (arr. of ballet mvt.), FP 45
9. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Bransle de Bourgogne
10. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Pavane
11. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Petite marche militaire
12. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Complainte
13. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Bransle de Champagne
14. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Sicilienne
15. Suite fran�aise (d'apr�s Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80: Carillon
16. Presto for piano in B flat major, FP 70
17. Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8: Pr�lude
18. Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8: Rustique
19. Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8: Final (tr�s vite)
20. L'embarquement pour Cyth�re, valse-musette for 2 pianos (from film, Le voyage en Am�rique), FP 150
21. Suite for piano in C major, FP 19: Presto
22. Suite for piano in C major, FP 19: Andante
23. Suite for piano in C major, FP 19: Vif
24. Trois pi�ces, for piano, FP 48: Pastorale
25. Trois pi�ces, for piano, FP 48: Hymne
26. Trois pi�ces, for piano, FP 48: Toccata
27. M�lancolie, for piano, FP 105
28. Humoresque for piano, FP 72
29. Intermezzi (2) for piano, FP 71: No. 1 in C
30. Intermezzi (2) for piano, FP 71: No. 2 in D flat
31. Intermezzo No. 3 for piano in A flat major, FP 118
32. Villageoises, petites pi�ces infantines, for piano, FP 65: Valse tyrolienne
33. Villageoises, petites pi�ces infantines, for piano, FP 65: Staccato
34. Villageoises, petites pi�ces infantines, for piano, FP 65: Rustique
35. Villageoises, petites pi�ces infantines, for piano, FP 65: Polka
36. Villageoises, petites pi�ces infantines, for piano, FP 65: Petite ronde
37. Villageoises, petites pi�ces infantines, for piano, FP 65: Coda
38. Fran�aise for piano, FP 103
39. Bourr�e au pavillon d'Auvergne, for piano (A l'exposition), FP 87

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75024 in Music
• Released on: 2005-06-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

POULENC MOST PLEASING
This 2005 EMI Encore retread of multihued Poulenc piano music is a joy. Culled from recordings made by Tacchino as early as 1966 (and through the 80s), the near ideal compilation is a melodious, evocative, whimsical, vibrant homage to composer and performer alike, and, as such, succeeds marvelously. Tacchino's approach to these assorted works seems just right; his judgment, innate sensibility, insight and expressively open manner are all seductively spontaneous-sounding; and his charm, wit and eloquence are undeniably engaging. In his hands, there is timelessness about this music, an ambience, distinctly present, imminently satisfying. Production values, as well, merit an appreciative nod for succeeding not only in deliberately programming tracks as contrasted elements of Poulenc's varied emotional palette, but in also carefully monitoring the character and context of the sound and adding, thereby, those memorable gradations of tone and nuance, both acerbic and gentle, that color the music so characteristically.


[Running time: 75:07]

Whiteness irreverence!
Among the notable group of the Six, it would seem two names have resisted the impetuous acid test of the time: Erik Satie and Francis Poulenc.

Melodically, Francis Poulenc is an heir of Erik Satie, but disliked abstractionism and philosophy. He rather preferred sensuality and sentimentality. He was a typical product of the French culture, one of the most singular figures of the famous Six (Germaine Taileferre, Erik Satie, Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric and Louis Durey)

He opposed himself clearly to classic form dissolution inside the impressionist sonorous taste and on the other hand, refused the tragic heroism. Gifted with an instinctive personality, was a fervent lover of the structural clarity and the melancholic mood, kindly ironic without purist whimsicalness.

His music is strongly loaded of whiteness and careful expressive phrasing. Gabriel Tachino shows us why he was one of the prominent pianists of his generation.

Go for this album without dilation.

Accomplished but where's the poetry?
This is a decent, if not inspired, collection of some of Poulenc's wonderful music for solo piano. There has always been the question of the use of "rubato" in Poulenc and I recall reading somewhere that Poulenc forbade it entirely. If that's true, than Tacchino is spot-on in his performances. But I missed the poetry that Artur Rubenstein brought to the wonderful 2nd Intermezzo in Db, especially the cadence of wonderful chords at the end. The tempos in this recording seem so straighforward as to sound rushed and workmanlike at times. The dazzling Presto in Bb (written for Horowitz) is played brilliantly here and overall this is a good basic introduction to this important collection of 20th Century piano music by one of its masters. One can only imagine in despair what treasures might have come from Poulenc's pen had he not died at age 63.