Francis Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano

- Composer: Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 -- 30 January 1963) - Performers: Michel Portal (clarinet), Jacques Février (piano) - Year of recording: 1976 Sonata for clarinet & piano, FP 184, written in 1962. 00:00 - I. Allegro tristamente (Allegretto - Très calme - Tempo allegretto) 05:39 - II. Romanza (Très calme) 09:56 - III. Allegro con fuoco (Très animé) The premiere of Francis Poulenc’s Sonata for Clarinet and Piano took place on 10 April 1963, with Benny Goodman on clarinet and Leonard Bernstein at the piano. But what was originally to be the premiere of a piece in memoriam -- the work bears the dedication “to the memory of Arthur Honegger -- turned out to be an in memoriam performance; Poulenc had died suddenly of a heart attack in January of that year, just shy of his 63rd birthday. “His death is a disaster for music and for personal friendship,“ lamented Jean Cocteau; “Poulenc had inherited Ravel’s