Disc Details

Contents

Work Title	Composer
Mouvements perpétuels	Francis Poulenc	Listen
Sextet	Francis Poulenc	Listen
Sonata for clarinet and piano	Francis Poulenc
Sonata for flute and piano	Francis Poulenc	Listen
Sonata for oboe and piano	Francis Poulenc
Ten Promenades	Francis Poulenc
Three Novelettes	Francis Poulenc	Listen
Trio	Francis Poulenc

Reviews

• 'Pascal Rogé (piano), et al Poulenc combined grace and sparkling wit with a rare nobility of utterance, clinging tenaciously to an all-consuming desire for a ‘return to simplicity’. Along with his fellow members of Les Six – Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Tailleferre and Auric – he enjoyed dabbling in many of the groundbreaking artistic movements of the time including vaudeville, jazz, Cubism, neoclassicism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. The results are plain to hear, particularly in the piano music which ranges from exquisite poetics to knockabout high spirits. Rogé and colleagues play this wonderful music to the manner born and are luxuriously recorded.'
  Julian Haylock, Classical FM, 01 April 2006
• Behind this bumper box lies the presiding genius of Pascal Rogé, whose tender whimsy and incisive wit have the measure of St Francis' bittersweet sensibility - and its deep-veined melancholy.
  Paul Riley, BBC Music Magazine, 01 February 2006