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Poulenc: Piano Melodies - Emmanuelle Stéphan (piano); Gabriel Tacchino (piano)
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  1. Léocadia, incidental music, FP 106: I. Les chemins de l'amour
  2. Improvisation No. 15 for piano in C minor ("Hommage à Édith Piaf"), FP 176
  3. Mélancolie, for piano, FP 105
  4. Trois mouvements perpétuels, for piano, FP 14a: I. Assez modéré
  5. Trois mouvements perpétuels, for piano, FP 14a: II. Très modéré
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  1. Léocadia, incidental music, FP 106: I. Les chemins de l'amour
  2. Improvisation No. 15 for piano in C minor ("Hommage à Édith Piaf"), FP 176
  3. Mélancolie, for piano, FP 105
  4. Trois mouvements perpétuels, for piano, FP 14a: I. Assez modéré
  5. Trois mouvements perpétuels, for piano, FP 14a: II. Très modéré
  6. Trois mouvements perpétuels, for piano, FP 14a: III. Alerte
  7. Novelette sur un thème de Manuel de Falla, for piano in E minor (No. 3), FP 173
  8. Improvisation No. 12 for piano in E flat major ("Hommage à Schubert"), FP 113/2
  9. Les soirées de Nazelles, for piano, FP 84: Variations: II. Le coeur sur la main
  10. Française for piano, FP 103
  11. Pastourelle for piano (arr. of ballet mvt.), FP 45b
  12. Presto for piano in B flat major, FP 70
  13. Nocturne No. 1 for piano in C major, FP 56/1
  14. Nocturne No. 7 for piano in E flat major, FP 56/7
  15. Improvisation No. 13 for piano in A minor (Allegretto comodo), FP 170/1
  16. Suite française (d'après Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80b: V. Bransle de Champagne. Modéré mais sans lenteur
  17. Suite française (d'après Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80b: VI. Sicilienne. Très doucement
  18. Valse (pour Micheline Soulé), for piano in C major (for collab. work, Album des Six), FP 17
  19. Novelettes (2) for piano, FP 47: I. Modéré sans lenteur
  20. Suite française (d'après Claude Gervaise), for piano (arr. from chamber version), FP 80b: I. Bransle de Bourgogne Gai mais sans hâte
  21. Villageoises, petites pièces infantines, for piano, FP 65: I. Valse tyrolienne. Gai
  22. Villageoises, petites pièces infantines, for piano, FP 65: II. Staccato. Pas vite
  23. Villageoises, petites pièces infantines, for piano, FP 65: IV. Polka. Sans hâte
  24. Nocturne No. 4 for piano in C minor ("Bal fantôme"), FP 56/4
  25. Improvisation No. 7 for piano in C major (Modéré sans lenteur), FP 63/7
  26. Improvisation No. 2 for piano in A flat major (Assez animé), FP 63/2
  27. Bourrée au pavillon d'Auvergne, for piano (A l'exposition), FP 87
  28. Thème varié, for piano, FP 151: Variation III: Pastorale
  29. Thème varié, for piano, FP 151: Variation VI: Ironique
  30. Suite for piano in C major, FP 19: I. Presto
  31. Impromptus (5) for piano, FP 21: III. Très modéré
  32. Novelettes (2) for piano, FP 47: II. Très rapide et rythmé
  33. Sonata for piano, 4 hands, FP 8: II. Rustique
  34. Trois pièces, for piano, FP 48: III. Toccata (Très animé)
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French pianist Gabriel Tacchino was a student of Poulenc and has made that modest master's piano music his own. Piano Melodies is a compilation of recordings made between 1966 and 1985, plus a couple of new recordings made by Tacchino in old age: the opening "Les chemins de l'amour," from the incidental music to Jean Anouilh's Léocadia, and the "Rustique" movement from the Sonata for piano four hands. Poulenc wasn't known as a piano composer, and these pieces aren't terribly often played. They consist of little character ...

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