Sonate for Violin and Piano

(Editions Durand). Musique francaise is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music, with performance suggestions and historical and stylistic commentary by noted scholars. Francis Poulenc's Sonate for violin and piano is a dramatic, vivid and haunting work, full of contrasts. The work alternates between charged, even brutal rhythmic drive, flowing lyricism and carnival-like dance music.