Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire
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FRANCIS POULENC
Poulenc: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies à la Vierge noire
Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Westminster Singers, City Of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
[ Erato Classics Red Line / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 25 October 2018
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He was a dandy - but also highly religious. He lived in the era of atonality, but his unmistakably personal music is firmly rooted in the French tradition. And since it first saw the light of day, it has been popular with music-lovers and critics alike. Francis Poulenc composes original, sensuous-sounding and sometimes cheeky, whimsical works in all musical genres. His sacred works contain great depth of personal expression, and Richard Hickox's 1980 recording of the Stabat Mater and the Gloria enjoys reference status to this day.
"(This recording) contains truly moving performances of timeless religious masterpieces. With the Westminster Singers and the City of London Sinfonia, Hickox creates performances that make the works seem less specifically of their place and time and much more generally about faith and devotion. He accomplishes this not only by the choir's neutral pronunciation of the Latin texts and the orchestral wind's less pungent tonal qualities, but also by smoothing the phrasing and rounding the sonorities so that in the end these performances seem less French or English and simply as more deeply humane. Naturally, French soprano Catherine Dubosc sings with Gallic nobility and passion, but the affecting sincerity of her interpretation raises her above ethnicity to sublimity." AllMusic.com
