Poulenc: Piano Concerto/Concert Champetre

Mark Bebbington (piano), John Roberts (oboe), Jonathan Davies (bassoon) & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Latham-Koenig

The acclaimed pianist Mark Bebbington marks his Resonus Classics debut, and the start of a new French music series, with a major new recording of works by Francis Poulenc. Joined by conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, this varied programme of works for piano features the Piano Concerto (the last of his five concertos) and the rarely-recorded piano version of the Concert champêtre so often performed by Poulenc himself. Bebbington is also joined by oboist John Roberts and bassoonist Jonathan Davies for the Trio for Piano, Oboe & Bassoon, and the Sonata for Oboe & Piano.

Poulenc:
 Concert champêtre
 Oboe Sonata, Op. 185
 Piano Concerto
 Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon

"A recording rich in sensual gratification and intellectual nourishment….Bebbington, Latham-Koenig and the RPO players are so focused on pointing up every expressive moment of these richly allusive concertos, the first and last Poulenc would write, that both emerge as strikingly vivid, despite their myriad subtleties."
Gramophone Magazine - June 2020

"Mark Bebbington heeft de handschoen opgepakt en zorgt samen met Jan Latham-Koenig voor een sprankelende uitvoering, die aangevuld wordt met het Pianoconcert, de Hobosonate uit het laatste levensjaar van de componist en het Trio voor hobo, fagot en piano. Prachtig!"
Luister Magazine 749 - LUISTER NEGEN