Couleurs - Artur Pizarro - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Artur Pizarro performs Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concerto with Bamberger Symphoniker directed by Thomas Rösner, alongside Poulenc’s Sinfonietta and two rare, glittering gems from Charles Koechlin. This release is a coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Following the success of Artur Pizarro’s recordings of Rachmaninoff’s Complete Piano Music on Odradek, hailed in Gramophone as “courageous and poetic” and praised by BBC Music Magazine for his “dazzling finger dexterity”, the “poet amongst pianists” returns with Poulenc’s Piano Concerto. The last of Poulenc’s concertos, this work is jaunty and playful whilst exuding an irresistible Romanticism. Poulenc’s Sinfonietta is a full-scale symphony in all but name, its self-deprecating title a reflection of the composer’s sense of humour and the work’s colourful, urbane character. Charles Koechlin is best known for his vast orchestral Jungle Book cycle, but was a prolific composer of tone poems on an array of themes. Both ‘Vers la voûte étoilée’, Op. 129 and ‘Sur les flots lointains’, Op. 130 date from 1933, and both were published posthumously in 1996. ‘Vers la voûte étoilée’ (‘Towards the vault of stars’) creates a sense of awe and mystery, reflecting Koechlin’s early ambition to become an astronomer. In the elegiac ‘Sur les flots lointains’ (‘On the distant waves’).

Tracklist

1. Poulenc: Sinfonietta Fp 141 - Allegro Con Fuoco
2. Poulenc: Sinfonietta Fp 141 - Molto Vivace
3. Poulenc: Sinfonietta Fp 141 - Andante Cantabile
4. Poulenc: Sinfonietta Fp 141 - Tres Vite Et Tres Gai
5. Poulenc: Piano Concerto In C-Sharp Minor Fp 146 - Allegretto
6. Poulenc: Piano Concerto In C-Sharp Minor Fp 146 - Andante Co
7. Poulenc: Piano Concerto In C-Sharp Minor Fp 146 - Rondeau A
8. Koechlin: Vers La Voute Etoilee Op.129
9. Koechlin: Sur Les Flots Lointains Op.130

Label: Odradek | Origin: Holland

📌 Works By Poulenc/Koechlin / Bamberger Sym./T. Rosner