The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music for the Piano to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer.

This edition focuses on the life and works of the French composer and pianist Francis Poulenc, with notes by Jon Paxman.

Pieces:

- L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant (excerpts)

- Française d’après Claude Gervaise

- Five Impromptus - II. Allegro vivace

- Mouvements Perpétuels - II. Trés modéré

- Nocturnes No.7 (from 8 Nocturnes)

- Trois Novelettes - No.3 in E Minor - Andantino tranquillo

- Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel

- Trois Pièces - I. Pastorale

- Promenades - VIII. En Chemin De Fer

- Suite pour Piano - III. Vif