In Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, there's a roller-coaster ride of mood changes, but always an underlying wit. Teres Loef and Johan Ullen are the duo pianists in this performance ...

Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15 pays homage to Edith Piaf. Tonight, pianist Gila Goldstein performs a recital at Boston University including Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15.

Kurt Weill and Francis Poulenc were born about a year apart, and their lives paralleled one another when they both lived in 1930s France. In a recital at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday ...

Nothing was so amusing to French Composer Francis Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. "I am half-monk, half-bounder," he ...

Poulenc: A Biography, Roger Nichols, Yale, 372 pages, June 2020; Poulenc: The Life in the Songs, Graham Johnson, Liveright, 608 pages, June 2020. “All my life I have had a certain idea of France ...

French Composer Francis Poulenc has a favorite religious scene: the painting by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) in one corner of which a small rabbit crouches unaware of the tragedy being unfolded on ...

On a blizzardy weekend in January of 1961, the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered Francis Poulenc’s Gloria at Symphony Hall with the composer in attendance. The performance was spectacular. In his ...

Here on the blog, I would like to note an appearance he made with the Philadelphia Orchestra: they played the Poulenc Organ Concerto. That was on April 29, and you can find it here. Three weeks ...

When Francis Poulencdied 50 years ago this month, the world of classical music sorrowfully noted the passing of a delightful artist of the second rank. Even his friends seem to have thought him a ...

Some operas inspire reverence beyond who gets kissed and who gets killed. Francis Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites is chief among them. This is the story of the 16 Carmelite nuns who were ...

Francis Poulenc's music was often tongue-in-cheek, but I don't think you'll hear any hint of a sewing machine in this music, even though it was paid for by Singer Sewing Machine money. Winnie ...