Chamber Music

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Poulenc, Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon                                  

Francis Poulenc, 1899-1963

Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon, 1926

(Arr. Piano and 2 Saxophones)

Poulenc had a great fondness for chamber music with winds. Color, pointillistic clarity and poise characterize several frequently featured compositions including his most well-known, the Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano. The first movement, patterned after a particular Haydn allegro is a sparkling presto, a compact caricature of contrasting sections, perfect execution juxtaposed with tongue in cheek pratfalls. The middle movement is a soft dream described by Poulenc himself as “sweet and melancholic.” The final movement is another brisk sequence of tableaux, a rondo whose refrain begins as a near perfect quote of a well-known Beethoven melody until it makes a surprising turn into the fresh vocabulary of Poulenc’s own distinctive language. Poulenc hinted that he patterned this movement after a piano concerto by Saint-Saëns perhaps thereby ensuring that the last word was unequivocally French.

This recording belongs to the the Concert in Amsterdam, June 2011, performed by David Cristobal, Jonas Tschanz and Guillermo Simón.