Francis Poulenc - Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra

- Composer: Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 -- 30 January 1963) - Orchestra: Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire - Conductor: Pierre Dervaux - Soloists: Francis Poulenc (piano), Jacques Février (piano) - Year of recording: 1957 Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor, FP 61, written in 1932. 00:00 - I. Allegro ma non troppo 07:47 - II. Larghetto 13:14 - III. Allegro molto This concerto was commissioned by and dedicated to the Princess Edmond de Polignac and composed over the period of three months in the summer of 1932. The premiere was given on 5 September 1932, at the International Society for Contemporary Music in Venice. Poulenc and his childhood friend Jacques Février were concerto soloists with the La Scala Orchestra, with Désiré Defauw (later conductor of the Chicago Symphony) conducting. Poulenc was gratified by the warm acclaim his work received, and later performed the concerto with Benjamin B