In this case, Rabinovich chose to join baritone John Moore and seven SPCO musicians for a wild ride of a cantata, Francis Poulenc’s “Le bal masque (The Masked Ball).” It’s something like a ...

After intermission, Denève led the Orchestra in a charmingly irreverent performance of Francis Poulenc’s five-movement Suite from Les biches, the ballet score that put the composer on the map.

“There is nothing in opera, absolutely nothing, quite like Francis Poulenc’s extraordinary piece,” Sir Nicholas Kenyon wrote in The Telegraph in reviewing the 2023 Glyndebourne productio ...

The concert features two pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a wild surrealist romp by Francis Poulenc with a vocal part sung by baritone John Moore, and Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D ...