Francis Poulenc - Nocturnes [With score]
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- Composer: Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 - 30 January 1963)
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud
Recorded in: 1996
Eight Nocturnes for Piano solo, written in 1929-1938
00:00 - I. Sans traîner
03:05 - II. Très animé [Bal des jeunes filles]
04:22 - III. Modéré mais sans lenteur [Les cloches de Malines]
08:16 - IV. Lent, très las et piano [Bal fantôme]
09:49 - V. Presto misterioso [Phalènes]
11:06 - VI. Très calme mais sans traîner
14:40 - VII. Assez allant
16:38 - VIII. Très modéré [Pour servir de coda au cycle]
Poulenc's eight nocturnes span about a decade (1929-1938). Although they are often played separately, Poulenc created a cycle when he composed the eighth nocturne and gave it the title Pour servir de Coda au Cycle (To serve as Coda for the Cycle). Unlike Chopin's or Fauré's, Poulenc's nocturnes are not romantic tone-poems. They are instead night-scenes and sound-images of public and private events.
-The first Nocturne, in C major, acts as a prelude to the set. Composed in 1929, it is typically Poulenc - constructed out of a touching, almost child-like melodic pattern, with some Stravinskian style touches and a weird epilogue marked, le double plus lent.
-The second Nocturne (1933) is entitled Bal de jeunes filles. The young girls, in Poulenc's world, are indulging in a quadrille, a dance with both military and theatrical associations. According to Wilfrid Mellers, this Nocturne "is a delicious Poulenc image for the vulnerability of youth, perhaps even the vanity of human wishes". In -1934 Poulenc published the Nocturnes, Nos. 3 to 6. The third Nocturne is entitled Les Cloches de Malines. Mellers sees this as a different kind of genre-piece "for it aurally depicts a small-town market-square that is probably, at dead of night, destitute of people. Bells toll through fourths between F and C, played by the left hand in equal crotchets but irregular metre, as though the mechanism is defective. It may well be, since the bells are very old, being in one of Poulenc's "antique" pieces - with the proviso that its world, however ancient, is still extant… the cacophony that eventually forms a brief middle section has a programmatic intention… perhaps the frantic clangings warn of some disaster, or maybe the clock's works have gone crazy. In any case, we hear the raucous chaos in psychological as well as physical terms: the hubbub is the ills that flesh is heir to, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, things that go bump in the night."
-The fourth Nocturne, Bal fantôme, carries a quotation by Julien Green: Pas une note des valses ou des scottisches ne se perdait dans toute la maison, si bien que le malade eut sa part de la fête et put rêver sur son grabat aux bonnes années de sa jeunesse (Not a note of the waltzes or the schottisches was lost in the whole house, so that the sick man shared in the festival and could dream on his death-bed of the good years of his youth). We are led by Pouleuc through an old-world, phantom ball where the chromatic harmony, sensuously spaced, moves us through a bygone-era waltz. It is dream-like, seductive and welcoming.
-The fifth Nocturne is entitled Phalènes (Moths). In this Presto misterioso, Mellers hears the moths flickering in an irridescent bitonality. It is one of Poulenc's more pictorial pieces - the coda is a quivering, sepulchral fragment of music, which Mellers feels may signal a human allegory: "we may be moths, jittering directionless:”
-We are again outdoors for the sixth Nocturne. Mellers sees the work as "wafting through darkness".
-In the seventh Nocturne, our jeunes filles are back dancing or strolling on a balmy summer night. According to Mellers, "since the young girls are recalled in the seventh Nocturne (1935), it makes sense that Poulenc should round off the cycle with an epilogue."
-The eighth Nocturne (1938) is designated Nocturne pour servir de Coda au Cycle. It begins with a tune close to that of the first Nocturne, but in 3/4 instead of 4/4. Mellers sees this as "a positive evolution… the music modulates flat wards ending on bare fifths of C, so the tonic C basic to the suite is reinstated, but not strongly affirmed. Fallibly human, Poulenc mistrusted definitive answers. This delectable suite of eight Nocturnes displays the loving care with which Poulenc defined, and protected, his vulnerabilities, even though they are less patent than those of the jeunes filles."
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God, these are gorgeous. So nostalgic!
Francis Poulenc était beauté, message, violence et rêve, mais surtout l'instrument puissant d'une volonté formidable. Ce compositeur disait "Je veux" quand beaucoup d’autres marmonnaient "je voudrais" Il a atteint son but sans se plier à la plus infime compromission, comme une charrue accrochée à une étoile.
Where has this been all my life
Poulenc is Mozart of 20th century.
0:17 c'est Magnifique with the baroque-influenced sequence mixed with his own style
L'un des tous meilleurs compositeurs contemporains du siècle dernier . La totalité et les nuances de cette architecture sonore est comme une envolée dans le Sublime, c’est l’une des musiques les plus divines et évocatrices qui m'aide à m'endormir paisiblement. Et c'est heureux parce que mes névroses envahissantes, grignotent ma raison.……
What a brilliant composer. I wish I could have met this man, in person (I've been playing the piano, on and off, since I was eight - I'm now fifty-five). Superbly melodic and lyrical writer, but with a twist. His music always transports me somewhere else. Just amazing.
The more I've listened to his work, over the years, the more I've come to appreciate the genius that he was. It all started with Trois Mouvements Perpétuels. I learned them many years ago, but need to brush up on them, some time this year - the sooner the better. Thank you for posting this :-)
See if you can still get the DVD "Francis Poulenc and Friends," which includes some footage of public performances. His ease as a raconteur is evident, as is his knack for speaking to nonmusicians about his craft. Composer and author Ned Rorem recalled a time when Poulenc sat at a bar and, when the bartender politely initiated a conversation, started describing how just that morning he had worked out a modulation scheme between unrelated keys in his current work.
"This music always transport me somewhere else". You have depicted my state of mind when listening to Poulenc.
Not to overlook the fact that the performance and interpretation are amazing!
Love this and so does my husband Ray Korns. Poulenc is under-rated in my opinion. Lovely performance too --- it's so great to see the score as you listen. Thank you!
OMG, I love No. VII, thats very beautiful
I’m learning that for my level 10 exam ;,) it’s so hard but such a beautiful and fantastic piece to play tho
Sounds Ravel with the extensive use of 7ths, which kinda permeates this whole set along with French 6ths.
This series is something like a neo-classic liquidation of the Romantic aspect of Nocturne, with a very simlple language, which could be compared to Satie's. The third nocturne joins a collection of "bells" muqics, with 'les cloches de Geve' by Lisat, a lyric piece by Grieg, (Cloches à travres les feuilles' by Debussy, 'La vallée des cloches' by Ravel, and more recently a tribute paid to Debussy: " Feuilles à travers les cloches" by Tristan Murail.
Nope, it's rather close to the "cathedrale engloutie" (Debussy), because of the left hand, you have also such an Ostinato.
@@laurenth7187 Well..... yes and no. You are probably right if you think of the central chordal passage in the right hand, with an ostinato of arpeggio of tonic and dominant with an added second degree to embellish the upper tonic. But in other parts, the right hand is written in a much more complex way and even unpleasant to play; these parts are quite far from Poulenc's thinking and writing.
To b honest, I do not think that these 'Nocturne' rank among Poulenc's masterworks, but they are valuable since first they are quite simple but nice and very well written, proving that such a thing can be made, and second they are short pieces (we have similar pieces in Borodin's or Grieg's suites), but here the eight short pieces are not scattered in several books with other different pieces, they form an unique boo, which as far as I know is the only case in nusical story).
@@gerardbegni2806you know alot of stuff about music wow
Sempre bellissima musica di Poulenc, grazie mille!
delightful and charming and with the ever present" melancholie" of the composer
Well said
00:00 - I. Sans traîner
03:05 - II. Très animé [Bal des jeunes filles]
04:22 - III. Modéré mais sans lenteur [Les cloches de Malines]
08:16 - IV. Lent, très las et piano [Bal fantôme]
09:49 - V. Presto misterioso [Phalènes]
11:06 - VI. Très calme mais sans traîner
14:40 - VII. Assez allant
16:38 - VIII. Très modéré [Pour servir de coda au cycle]
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I like that the first and last end with music which would turn up again in Dialogues, associated with Sœur Blanche. A lovely set.
YUP ...! It's her main theme... "Good Lord one jumps into danger, just like into the ocean. First it takes the breath from your body... then it becomes most refreshing, after you gone up to your neck"... Constance also has this theme... in her opening scene...
08:16 this is hauntingly beautiful
An utterly beautiful set of Nocturnes.
Absolutely perfect!
Oh yay! Someone finally uploaded the whole set as one video! Thanks so much :D
Such gentle, yet vivant, music. The third one is outstandingly beautiful.
great composer Poulenc and very nice played with a nice rubato.
So glad I listened to the whole set. Absolutely beautiful.
Brilliant compositions and playing!
oh yes...!
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I'm so glad someone of your virtuosity likes Poulenc as much as me.
check out his toccata!
This is the correct response to this piece.
So damn beautiful. The first and last movements are especially stunning.
Thanks for posting it
Such sensitivity to the many colours!
I love Poulenc's music! These nocturnes are quite beautiful and at times quite subtle.
Quand des étrangers me demande : c'est quoi le raffinement Français ? Je leur rétorque aussitôt écoutez du Francis Poulenc.
The first one is perfectly fitted for being the theme of a Final Fantasy town.
What is Final Fantasy town? Is that something your created for movies or the stage?
@@jimstokes6742 Final Fantasy is a long running video game series highly regarded for it's music. The composer makes extensive use of leitmotivs and classical influences. The town themes in those games are typically peaceful and happy with simple harmonies and melodies reminiscent of a folk song.
@@looney1023 Thanks for such a scholarly and informed explanation.
No. 7 is so beautiful
Thank you!
Has a French composer, in general, familiarity. God Bless CZcams for making this available. & to our room host.
The couple of bars ~17:52 has to be one of the warmest sounds I've ever heard.
Poulenc has eargasmic harmonic resolution and modulations
no. 1 is just wonderful
Marvelous!
You hear motives that will be re-used in his Carmelites opera, later on..
This is great stuff. I feel ashamed to admit I'm not as familiar with this composer's music. Now I wamt to dive in and hear a lot more. Thanks for posting this.
DeMario Music Tharaud has played for sublime recordings of most of his piano repertoire. Listen to ‘Mélancholie’, it’s on CZcams. It willmake your heart ache and your soul sing. :)
my dear friend,listen the 1st concert for piano and the concert for clavichord(and this concert in piano Version)
And don't FORGET his tow MASTERPIECES... Dialogues of the Carmelites and and the GLORIA...
Im glad you feel ashamed.
Meraviglioso !
un compositore che meriterebbe molte piu esecuzioni nei cartelloni delle associazioni musicali
Magnifique et triste.
17:51 such a simple yet beautiful turn of things
i love it
Lovely
Has really no one mentioned that no. 4 is a clear homage to Chopin's Prelude in A Major, or was it just so obvious that it needed no mention?
Brilliant. They share a similar flavor and mood with some of the works of Mompou. Delightful.
Um, no they don't. Totally the opposite. The vast majority of these.
@@organboi To my ear they do; it's ok for us to disagree. I'm not saying that they are the same as Mompou; only that there is a certain mood that reminds me of him. Maybe we can agree that they are great.
Absolutely beautiful
Made me to sleep
Delightful. Beautiful. Charming. Ear candy any time any day
Francis Poulenc innimitable
Nice description. I wouldn’t have known that much about the context
Magnifico Poulenc , original y poético.
God! I lovePoulenc! His music needs to be more exposed to the world-standard repertoire! (Personally, I wish my favorite pianist, Yuja, would perform Poulenc’s music!
The second nocturne sounds like second movement of Poulenc's sonata for two pianos.
WonderfulAnd great program notes.
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Poulenc is able to make such masterpieces in C major (see Novelette no.1)
how come the last piece af the cycle sounds like one the most beautiful and final music ever ? Like nothing can be said after that...
I guess it's final in terms of a peaceful, arriving home manner. The other finality that I can think of is the ending of Rachmaninoff's cycle of preludes.
The interlude in the third nocturne reminds me of Messiaen.
Hmm. The Poet speaks! Beautiful. I never knew these pieces existed. Interestingly, I'm pretty certain that they have never been in the central classical repetoire but they should have been.
OK, can we agree on how cool no. 4 is?
Is it just me, but I find that the second nocturne sounds like the Presto?
The fifth one almost sounds like Bartok.
Wow
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Capolavoro di un genio.
which u use prgram for score video?
16:30 why is there a natural AND a flat in front of the B under middle C in second to last bar?
because right before it (at the begginning of the meassure) there's a B double-flat. the natural afects the double-flat, and then it applies the regular flat. for some people it may be confusing to read a double flat and then a single flat, like if they should play a triple-flat or something... ha
4:10 Chopin A Major Prélude
Chopin copied many ideas to the Nocturnes of Czerny and John Field and nobody says anything
8:53 - 8:58 is just so French in nature
The second nocturne sounds reminiscent of Schumann.
hmm....kind of))
I thought the same thing!
I can see that
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Delicious
1:44 Flute sonata!!
I hear the themes that are later referenced in the Sextet
I just realised that Francis Poulenc looks exactly like Craig Ferguson!
Дивно.
Double plus lent is alla breve I guess
18:05 didnt he use this same ending elsewhere?
2:31, and his opera "Dialogues des Carmélites"
@@user-zm7by2vh9m ohh wow yea I heard it in the first nocturne and was looking for it for so long. ty
is this neoclassicism? i have an exam soon
No. It's not. Naming pieces the title "Nocturnes" is not a reflection back to the older styles (classical and baroque, etc). It's simply a title of pieces that would suggest night time. Now if the pieces were written for harpsichord and had distinctive baroque musical traits, such as polyphonic writing, for example, then it could be considered neoclassical. A good example of the style is Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Although it sort of came before the trend. But it fits the bill for sure.
Is Poulenc an Impressionist composer?
Most certainly
@@jackthewilliams not quite. Neoclassical is more like it.
I would say leaning towards an Avant-Garde style but also with a lavish romanticism
@@BARTLET4AMERICA1 Late Impressionism with an Avant-Garde base I would say.
1:43, 11:55, 12:46, 8:21
1:02
where are these pizzzas
only 24 mins;)
14:40
excellent, but those L.H. leaps are treacherous
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2:33 WTF??!!!!
Probably the best nocturnes ever..... Sorry Chopin (actually not, chopin's nocturnes bore me to death)
Those are some terribly contrived additions from Mellers.
That first nocturne has such a beautiful melody, however I found that some of the cadences were random and lacked some impact. Some of the pieces I felt were underdeveloped. Interesting soundscapes nonetheless!
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PIANISTS who never give attention to the bass line and their polyphony INSULT the integrity of the compositions. He is but a "top" with no place t o be a 'bottom."
Sempre bellissima musica di Poulenc, grazie mille!
Thank you!
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