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.
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.
![Francis Poulenc - Nocturnes [With score]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YDK45rPV5nA/mqdefault.jpg)
![Francis Poulenc - Nocturnes [With score]](/img/tr.png)
I was getting to this video through Autoplay and at the beginning of the first one I thought I landed on a prokofiev sonata.
so beautiful!
The first one opens violently, but a very singable and songlike theme occurs in a charming fashion.
manic, pensive, and then serene
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.
the third one is FP.118
the first one is surprisingly prokofievish
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.
difficile!