Watch: Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt play Poulenc
Friday, April 23, 2021
The dramatic performance is taken from their new Delphian album, out today
Benjamin Baker and Daniel Lebhardt's Delphian debut is a programme of three violin sonatas by Prokofiev, Copland and Poulenc, who all began writing them in 1942 - the date becoming the title of the album.
Today's video sees them performing the dramatic third movement of Poulenc’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, filmed at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall. There's a particular poignancy to the performance - the piece was written for Ginette Neveu, who was killed in a plane crash aged just 30, and this film was made on what would have been the violinist's 100th birthday.
Film by Foxbrush
'1942: Prokofiev, Copland and Poulenc' also features in today's 'Essential New Albums' page.