Composer: Francis Poulenc
Performer: The Sixteen
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Coro
Release: 2017
Size: 1.02 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Salve Regina in G Minor, FP 110
Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence
02. I. Timor et tremor
03. II. Vinea mea electa
04. III. Tenebræ factæ sunt
05. IV. Tristis est anima mea
06. Litanies à la Vierge noire
Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
07. I. O magnum mysterium
08. II. Quem vidistis pastores dicite
09. III. Videntes stellam
10. IV. Hodie Christus natus est
Un soir de neige
11. I. De grandes cuillers de neige
12. II. La bonne neige
13. III. Bois meurtri
14. IV. La nuit le froid la solitude
15. Ave verum corpus
Mass in G major
16. I. Kyrie
17. II. Gloria
18. III. Sanctus
19. IV. Benedictus
20. V. Agnus Dei
Francis Poulenc is considered one of the greatest melodists of the 20th century but it is his individual and immediately recognisable harmonic language that makes his music so distinctive. Often overlooked in his lifetime and in the years after his death, his sacred music was an expression of his more serious side and, following the death of his close friend, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, a re-awakening of his religious faith. The Sixteen’s new recording centres round the themes of conflict and atonement, reflecting both Poulenc’s intense internal struggles and the turbulence of life in France during the mid-20th century.