![]() ![]() This incantation gradually losses its emotional composure spinning into a ululating climax of chromatic ornamentation. ![]() Deeply dedicated to his Catholic faith, Poulenc writes an arresting passage in the beginning of the third movement in which the oboe intones a lamenting chant over sustained bell sounds from the piano. Poulenc's musical language encompasses the sacred and profane, literally. Poulenc changes moods with little warning, the way the emotions careen between joy and sorrow when faced with terrible loss.Ĭharacteristic of the composer, the careening is not only emotional. Without the long melodies that make the sonatas for flute and clarinet so memorable, this work seems to actually be about the inner workings of memory itself. ![]() Written at the end of his life, this work is both fragmentary and rhapsodic, boisterous with joy and abject in grief. He was so taken by those four unaccompanied notes the oboe sings at the beginning of the piece-high, arching, eloquently longing for something lost-that he envisioned this work as the perfect way to open the season. When Christian Steiner first spoke with me about having Zéphyros open the 2007 series of Tannery Pond Concerts, he had recently attended a performance of the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet that included Poulenc's Sonata for Oboe and Piano. ![]()
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