Francis Poulenc

This is an updated edition of Francis Poulenc's 1962 work Sonata For Clarinet And Piano edited by Millan Sachania. Featuring the full score and separate Clarinet part this exclusive editionalso includes a download card giving you instant online access to demonstration and accompaniment tracks.   Originally completed in 1962 Poulenc tragically passed away before it could bedefinitively engraved leaving behind a work with a number of ambiguous notational marks that resulted in an incomplete first edition published just a year later. A number of revisions have taken place but this expertly editedby Millan Sachania aims to provide a playable legible precise and authoritative score that reflect closest Poulenc's intentions.   This new edition includes accidentals that may havebeen intended by Poulenc within square brackets as well as cautionary accidentals and the deletion of redundant accidentals. Other amendments like the redistribution of notes between the Piano staves extendingslurs so as to incorporate second or final tied notes in contrast to the previous edition. At all points Sachania has aimed to reproduce an authoritative and accurate score that is at once playable and a reflection ofwhat Poulenc himself may have intended.   What makes this edition of Sonata For Clarinet And Piano really special is the unique download card that provides exclusive onlineaccess to demonstration and accompaniment audio tracks. Professionally-recorded by renowned clarinettist Joy Farrall and pianist Huw Watkins the demonstration track allows you to hear exactly how the piece as a whole shouldsound before the independent Piano-only track lets you take the place of the clarinettist in your very own performance. This is a unique opportunity for clarinettists to learn from an authoritative score and play along to a

Pour récitant et piano à quatre mains-During the visit to Brive-la-Gaillarde in 1940 Poulenc sketched a little piece for the children of his cousins: Sophie Sylvie Benoit Florence and Delphine Périer Yvan Alain Marie-Christine and Marguerite-MarieVillotte and their two friends Marthe Bosredon and André Lecoeur. This took the form of a musical background to Jean de Brunhoff's popular illustrated children's story about Babar a baby elephant whose mother is killed by ahuntsman. Fortunately Babar meets a kind elderly lady who dresses him in a fine suit and gives him an impressive motor-car.However Babar feels homesick for his forests and is pleased when his cousins Arthur and Celeste find him and needs no persuasion to go home with them. Back in the forest where the King of the Elephants has eaten a poisonous mushroom Babar is elected to succeed as King. He marries Celeste and the last we hear of him isthinking of a rosy future as he dreamily looks up at a marvellously star-filled sky.Poulenc's score to which he returned and completed in 1945 is for a narrator and a Piano so written that the individualsections offer the pianist a number of self-contained descriptive pieces such as a Lullaby a Reverie a Galop a Nocturne and so on. Indeed some of Poulenc's finest Piano music isfound in these charming pages.In 1962 Jean Françaix made an orchestral version and Barbar has been enjoyed by children of all ages all over the world. An English translation of the text was made by Nelly Rieu.Thisparticular edition is arranged for Narrator and Piano duet (1 Piano 4 hands) and a separate insert with English translation is included.

POD Revised Version-Trio For Piano Oboe And Bassoon - Revised Version by Francis Poulenc. This new edition is based on a second manuscript by Poulenc dated 16th March 1928. Edited by Sandro Caldini in 2016. From the preface: The Trio pour piano hautbois et basson by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) represents a milestone in the repertoire of music for double-reed instruments. It was written between March and April 1926 during a long stay in Côte d'Azur and it was immediately published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen AS Copenhagen in the same year. The composition was influenced by the composer's friendship with Igor Stravinskyand was dedicated to Manuel de Falla. I was lucky to locate a second manuscript (due to the courtesy of the American composer Ned Rorem and his niece Mary Marshall) on which this new edition is based. When I compared this manuscript with the first edition (WH19245) it became evident that there were many differences. The second manuscript is dated 16th March 1928 and clearly states Brouillon definitif (final copy)... Sandro Caldini 2016