Portland Chamber Music Festival: Musique Fantastique

This sumptuous program celebrates the French musical voice with its distinctively dazzling variety of tonal effects. First up a sextet for winds strings and piano by Guillaume Connesson—one of today’s most widely performed French composers—whose music has been called “a celebration of life filled with joyous melodies rhythmic vitality and a sense of wonder" (American Record Guide). An elegiac oboe sonata by Poulenc dedicated to the memory of his close friend (and bridge partner) Prokofiev is followed by the gorgeous opulence and exuberance of Faure’s first Piano Quartet. C’est magnifique!

Guillaume Connesson Sextet (1998)

Francis Poulenc Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1962)

Claude Debussy (arr. Nathan Farrington) Beau Soir (1880)

Gabriel Fauré Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor Op. 15 (1876-1879)

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