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Poulenc: Stabat Mater & Les Biches
Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Stuttgart Southwest Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, North German Radio Chorus, Stéphane Denève
Awards:
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Building A Library, November 2024, Recommended Recording (Stabat Mater)
Monk and man-about-town: both sides of Poulenc's complex personality are represented. Deneve conducts idiomatically, and his sharp, perky account of the ballet Les Biches is particularly relishable.
Poulenc: Stabat Mater & Les Biches
Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Stuttgart Southwest Radio Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, North German Radio Chorus, Stéphane Denève
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Awards:
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Building A Library, November 2024, Recommended Recording (Stabat Mater)
Monk and man-about-town: both sides of Poulenc's complex personality are represented. Deneve conducts idiomatically, and his sharp, perky account of the ballet Les Biches is particularly relishable.
About
This recording marks the debut recording of the new principal conductor of the RSO Stuttgart, Stéphane Denève.
He has achieved some fantastic reviews here in the UK so we welcome him to the Haenssler label with open arms! The release presents a well-balanced program which shows both sides of Poulenc ’s compositions.
The recording has excellent artists including soprano Marlis Petersen who is a regular guest on the Metropolitan Opera, and is accompanied by the SWR Vokalensemble, and the NDR Choir Poulenc’s Stabat mater is one of the greatest sacred choral works of the 20th century and is released at a perfect time of year.
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Awards and reviews
April 2013
Monk and man-about-town: both sides of Poulenc's complex personality are represented. Deneve conducts idiomatically, and his sharp, perky account of the ballet Les Biches is particularly relishable.
30th March 2013
Sensuous fervour contrasts with carefree elegance and erotic urbanity in this disc that represents the composer’s two extremes
July 2013
Profundity that's usualy convinced through an elegant lightest touch benefits from Stéphane Denève's heavier hand and more formidable utterance.
This new version from Stéphan Denève with soprano Marlis Peterson,
NDR Chorus, the SWR Vokalensemble and the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra is
one of rare beauty: an exceptionally refined performance and also a very moving one that instantly heads towards the top of any list of recommendations.
15th June 2013
Denève’s perfomance [of the Stabat Mater] will leave even atheists and agnostics rheumy-eyed.
