Francis Poulenc - Three Intermezzi [Score Video]

Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963):
Three Intermezzi (FP 71)
Performers:
Pascal Rogé, piano
00:00 - No. 1, in C Major
01:36 - No. 2, in D-flat Major
04:26 - No. 3, in A-flat Major

[@maximilianazendorf]

I was getting to this video through Autoplay and at the beginning of the first one I thought I landed on a prokofiev sonata.

[@paularachelcollins]

so beautiful!

[@SCRIABINIST]

The first one opens violently, but a very singable and songlike theme occurs in a charming fashion.

[@licoricestic]

manic, pensive, and then serene

[@Mezzotenor]

Love these, thanks! Interesting that the set is given a collective FP number, though #3 is nine years behind the others. The Improvisations and the Novelettes, for example, are more chronologically split up. Perhaps the Intermezzi were first published as a group, despite the time gap.

[@MrFranbu67]

the third one is FP.118

[@June_Hee]

the first one is surprisingly prokofievish

[@mrtchaikovsky]

Not surprising at all; both composers were close friends (Poulenc dedicated his oboe sonata to Prokofiev) and in the 20s they often met to play bridge.

[@delko000]

difficile!