Une Suite composée en 1920, en trois mouvements : 1/Presto, 2/Andante et 3/ Vif.
En janvier 1920, le critique Henri Collet a appelé Poulenc et cinq de ses amis compositeurs, le `Groupe des Six`, par analogie avec les Cinq Russes. Ce fut une marque pratique pour se faire de la publicité et Jean Cocteau, leur auto-proclamé porte-parole, fut rapide à saisir toutes les opportunités. Mais chacun des six insistait sur le fait que ce n'était qu'un groupe d'amis, sans but musical commun.
La Suite pour Piano de Poulenc et ses Impromptus pour piano se mariaient parfaitement avec les dires de Cocteau - ils sont clairs, insouciants et amusants. Mais les Promenades écrites en 1921 pour Artur Rubinstein, correspondent au côté plus sérieux de Poulenc, qui avait déjà du mal à se faire entendre.
Cette célébration en dix mouvements de différents modes de transport explore un certain nombres de nouvelles techniques musicales qui intriguaient les compositeurs dans les années 20. Le language qui en resortait devait être difficile à comprendre pour les pianistes de l'époque. / [Suite for Piano] / Classique / Partition /

6 ?uvres de Francis Poulenc / [Album of Six Pieces for Piano] / Classique / Partition /

The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved musicto give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer.This edition focuses on the life and works of the French composer and pianist Francis Poulenc.With notes by JonPaxman.Writing in the European Piano Teachers Association Journal Angela Fogg calls Composer Portraits 'a well thought-out and well presented series of books offering fantastic repertoire for students inthe later grades. I cannot recommend them enough!'

Pour Piano-“Musique française” is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music with performance suggestions and historical and stylistic commentary by noted scholars. The 15 Improvisations included with this book share a common brevity of discourse and a tonal musical language as a key is specified for each of them. Using the title of Improvisations allowed Poulenc not to follow any structural plan and not to embark on any musical form even on a small scale.

Born in Paris in 1899 Francis Poulenc soon became a notable composer and pianist. His Trois Pièces for Piano were composed in 1928 towards the beginning of his career and paved the way for exceptional Piano works from the composer. Poulenc as a member of Les Six composed music in a style contrary to that of Richard Wagner and impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Trois Pièces for Piano is made up of three movements 1. Pastorale 2. Hymne and 3. Toccata all of which exploit the Piano to its full potential. Being an imaginative and evocative composition TroisPièces for Piano is a pleasure to play for all pianists.