Poulenc
Poulenc brings together the elegance, wit and emotional directness of Francis Poulenc’s music. The album opens with the Cello Sonata, performed by Lidy Blijdorp with pianist Pascal Rogé — a work full of brilliance, tenderness and sudden shifts of colour.
Poulenc received a five-star review from BBC Music Magazine in 2026 and was selected as Chamber Choice.
'Flawlessly delivered
by Lidy Blijdorp.’
– Gramophone
Poulenc presents the composer in several guises: intimate, theatrical, lyrical and sharply observant.
Lidy Blijdorp appears in the Cello Sonata, written in close collaboration with Pierre Fournier. Together with Pascal Rogé, she brings out the work’s conversational character, sudden changes of mood and unmistakable mixture of elegance and bite.
Performed by Pascal Rogé piano, Lidy Bijdorp cello, Elena Font piano.
Poulenc
Poulenc brings together the composer’s Cello Sonata with works for solo piano, piano four hands and two pianos. Lidy Blijdorp joins the French pianist Pascal Rogé in a programme full of wit, elegance and emotional directness.
Francis Poulenc
Cello Sonata, FP 143
Sonata for Piano Four Hands, FP 8
Trois mouvements perpétuels, FP 14
Nocturne No. 1 in C major, FP 56
Improvisations, FP 63
Nos. 1, 2 and 7
Sonata for Two Pianos, FP 156
Pascal Rogé · piano
Lidy Blijdorp · cello
Elena Font · piano
Onyx Classics · 2026
Released 30 January 2026
Catalogue number ONYX4271
BBC Music Magazine · ★★★★★
BBC Music Magazine · Chamber Choice