Tonight, pianist Gila Goldstein performs a recital at Boston University including Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15. The 1959 piece, last in a series of Improvisations spanning Poulenc’s career, ...

At the end of 1940, after Paris had fallen under German occupation, the spectacularly refined French composer Francis Poulenc made a musical setting of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem “Sanglots,” or ...

Poulenc wrote music that popped like corks from Champagne, dizzy with the sounds of Parisian music halls and jazz. Yet he also channeled great... Fifty years ago today, French composer Francis Poulenc ...

A review of Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols. Poulenc’s personality in and outside his music is plumbed in Poulenc: A Biography by Roger Nichols, a celebrated British scholar. As a composer, ...

Two entertaining biographies reveal a complex composer, whose music – like his colourful life – melded the incompatible Imagine Roger Nichols and Graham Johnson at a dinner party, discussing the ...

Poulenc: A Biography, Roger Nichols, Yale, 372 pages, June 2020; Poulenc: The Life in the Songs, Graham Johnson, Liveright, 608 pages, June 2020. “All my life I have had a certain idea of France.” – ...

Pairing Poulenc’s one-acters La Voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias allows Laurent Pelly to explore opposite extremes of emotion and desire in this passionate, full-blooded and hilarious staging ...

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Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Fifty years ago today, French composer Francis Poulenc had a massive heart attack in his Paris apartment and died. He was only 64, but he left us with an assortment of durable music that still ...