New Year's Concert: Rachmaninov Invites You to Dance

Francis Poulenc was a dandy, an aesthete – and an incorrigible eccentric. In his sparkling Concerto for Two Pianos, the Frenchman achieved a wild stylistic mix in the early 1930s – musically situated somewhere between Mozart, Indonesian gamelan music and Parisian chansons, garnished with a considerable dose of décadence.