Poulenc: Concert champêtre pour clavecin et orchestre
Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra
 

Georges Prêtre, conductor. Aimée van de Wiele, harpsichord. Francis Poulenc, Jacques Février, pianos.

DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm, microgroove, stereo, 12 in.

NOTES: Concerto recorded 8 January 1962 (2 sessions), Salle Wagram. [EMI Rouge et Noir CD gives 4-5 April 1962 as recording date for double concerto.] Grand Prix du Disque Français.

• VSM FALP 737 mono; ASDF 273 stereo. (d. l. September 1962)
• Also:
  • Angel 35993 mono; S-35993 stereo. Matrix nos. 2XLA-X-742 (label; + -D2 etched), 2XLA-X-743 (label; + -D1 etched). Jacket as above; order, however, is [side 1]: Concerto in D Minor; [side 2:] Concert champêtre. Program notes by Claude Rostand on slipcase. [1962, from LCC numbers.]
  • Portion (Concert champêtre) anthologized: Time-Life Records SLT 159 (Concerts of Great Music): The Music of Today. "A Listener's Guide to the Recordings," 28 pp., inserted in slipcase.
• CDs:
  • CD: EMI CZS 7 62690 2 (USA CDZB 62690; France PM 518; Germany 627), 2 discs: Concert champêtre, CD 2, tr. 8­10; Concerto for 2 Pianos, CD 2, tr. 11-13. Program notes by Jean Roy and transl. by Denis Ogan (and German, Gudrun Meier), 8 pp. 1990.
• CD: in Jacques Février / Ravel, Debussy, etc. EMI Rouge et Noir CZS 569446 2 (2 CDs). March 1998.

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