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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A review of Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols.On a blizzardy weekend in January of 1961, the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered Francis Poulenc’s Gloria at Symphony Hall with the composer in ...

In his Improvisation No. 15, the French composer Francis Poulenc paid mysterious tribute to Edith Piaf.

Poulenc at the organ by Jay Nordlinger On a performance by Paul Jacobs & the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, of the organ concerto by Francis Poulenc. In my forthcoming ...

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 ...

France's Composer Francis Poulenc, 58, built a solid reputation as the composer of sophisticated vocal works, frothy, impudent ballets and opera such as Les Mamelles de Tirésias* which gaily ...

When Francis Poulenc died 50 years ago this month, the world of classical music sorrowfully noted the passing of a delightful artist of the second rank.

Francis Poulenc’s The Dialogues of the Carmelites is chief among them. This is the story of the 16 Carmelite nuns who were guillotined at the Place de la Revolution in Paris on July 17, 1794. The ...

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 ...