Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14a (1918) with score 0:00 - I. Assez modéré 1:18 - II. Très modéré 2:39 - III. Alerte Performed by Pascal Rogé
Yes! This is where I first heard it, I love that film. Hitchcock is brilliant at screenplay and this music is used brilliantly to heighten tension in Rope.
By far one of my most favorite pieces from Francis Poulenc. I really do enjoy his music. It's a shame that he's really not more popular today. Because he should be. This was one of my favorite first pieces to play when I was a kid. You had to get pretty good to be able to do it to this level. And there was a lot of fun trying, anyway. He was a good man, a wonderful artist and pianist.
Once again, a series of pieces from my youth. How old was I? Maybe ten years and it was a totally different experience after Beethoven, Bach, Brahms (those famous B's). My teacher and I loved it and now over 60 years I am hearing it again. Many thanks.
I listened to this the first time before two years.. I remember that i did not like it that much.. but now it sounds really different to my more experianced ears.. very elegant piece.
A biography on Erik Satie brought me here. The biographer writes: The "unpretentious charm of Satie's Three Pieces in the Shape of a Pear was not lost on a younger generation...Franics Poulenc's Mouvements perpetuels are inconceivable without the example of the master."
I love this work. I was thrilled when as a college student minoring in Piano, my teacher Mr. Fishbein knew that my love of jazz and my large hands which could span a 10th would be very happy learning to play these movements from Francis Poulenc!!!
Phillip: You don't think the party's a mistake? Brandon: No, it's the finishing touch to our work.It's more.It's the signature of the artists.Not having it would be like, uh... Phillip: Painting the picture and not hanging it? Brandon: That's not a good choice of words. Phillip: It may end up too choice, thanks to the party.
Poulenc is really brilliant. My choir sang "Les Tisserands" in quarantine style. Write this in the search: you will love it for sure! Corale Novarmonia - Les Tisserands (F. Poulenc)
Can anyone suggest how to play the wide tenths in the final movement properly? My hand is not big enough to reach them, and rolling them just sounds wrong.
@@justinchang9660 I am classically trained. If the music and temper allows, you 'cross hands', right over left, and use the right to play the upper note of the left, while maintaining the melody of the right hand. If the music makes it possible.
I remember my piano teacher making me do 'stretching' exercises. She would literally take my hand, and 'stretch' the fingers away from each other to increase flexibility and reach. She told me to to do many times a day, and, it works if you persevere.
Roge is playing the later version of this piece. There are a couple of bits in the 3rd piece that are easier to play...the 4 bars at 3 mins and the right hand line at 3.45 is only the tops notes, no octaves...
Could Hitchcock have picked a more perfect piece for Philip to play? It's composer was rich, aristocratic, homosexual, Catholic, and French (as opposed to German).
Ravenshadow415 same boat, bless our hearts. The only thing you can do is arpeggiate and slow practice. Luckily playing them like grace notes (arpeggiating) works with the style here, unlike other songs that we may never be able to play *cough cough Gershwin's second prelude cough*
@@RajalaRime *nods sagely* It's like that one chord in the last bars of Prokofiev's March from "The Love for Three Oranges": you'd need Rachmaninov's hands to span it, so it's either leave out a note or roll it. Scriabin had small hands too, so he would've been no stranger to such challenges - especially if he'd lived longer. Frigging streptococcus infected pimple... of all the ways to go…
Pascal Rogé is a French pianist. This particular album, entitled Poulenc: Complete Music for Solo Piano, Vol. 1, won the Gramophone Classical Music Award, for Instrumental, in 1988. I was able to find the CD, used (but in pristine condition), on Amazon, a while back. Absolutely beautiful work, in a pristine recording, and wonderfully interpreted by Rogé. Worth purchasing! Here's some more info on Rogé: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Rog%C3%A9
