About This Song
About "Sonate pour hautbois et piano, Op. 185: Scherzo (1962)" by Alexandre Gattet
The Scherzo from Poulenc's final oboe sonata is a ghostly joke: staccato piano ticks like a clock, oboe skitters in crooked leaps. Written in 1962, it masks grief behind vaudevillian energy—a smile that doesn't reach the eyes. Gattet threads the irony with surgical precision.