Francis Poulenc : Nocturnes

Niveau intermédiaire. Par POULENC FRANCIS. Ce recueil contient 30 pièces pour piano de Francis Poulenc. Une sélection de ses compositions les plus célèbres destinées aux pianistes de niveau intermédiaire./ Répertoire / Piano

Recueil Piano-Nocturnes is a set of 8 pieces for piano by Francis Poulenc. Composed between 1929 and 1938 for intermediate players this set was composed as a cycle and represents night scenes of different events. They can be differentiated from most of the other nocturnes as they are not romantic tone-poems. Nocturnes’s eight pieces are:- 1st Nocturne (C Major)- 2nd Nocturne – Young girl's ball / Bal de jeunes filles (A Major) - 3rd Nocturne – Maines’ bells / Les Cloches de Maines (F Major) - 4th Nocturne – Ghost’s Ball / Bal fantome (C minor) - 5th Nocturne–Moths / Phalenes (B minor) - 6th Nocturne (G major) - 7th Nocturne (Cb major) - 8th Nocturne (For Coda) Francis Poulenc is French compositor and pianist. He also produced Piano and Chamber pieces Operas ('Dialogues des Carmélites') ballets ('Les Biches') as well as some Orchestra works.

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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-Marie Villotte, 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 a huntsman. 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 is thinking 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 individual sections 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 is found 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.This particular edition is arranged for Narrator and Piano duet (1 Piano, 4 hands) and a separate insert with English translation is included. / Piano 4 Mains

39 popular works for piano featuring selected works from the major exam board syllabuses spanning Grades 5 to 8 and beyond. Preface by Young Musician of the Year Martin James Bartlett.

Piano Playbook: Light Classical includes superb new solo Piano arrangements of 52 evergreen light classical pieces. Chosen to reflect a variety of moods, this selection has been produced to the highest standards and comes in a handy 6 x 9 in. format that combines convenience with durability. The spiral binding ensures that the Piano Playbook sits flat on a Piano or other music stand, while the crisp engraving is a pleasure to read. / Piano