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Poulenc - Litanies à la Vierge noire
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Tenebrae is equal to every challenge. The tuning is impeccable, the phrasing intelligent and never forced, the balance always adjusted to the demands of Poulenc's textures...Not least, the sopranos... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Poulenc: Mass in G and other works
Iain Simcock (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell
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Poulenc: Stabat Mater, Litanies à La Vierge Noire
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Marianne Croux, Ensemble Aedes, Les Siècles, Mathieu Romano
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc
RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Poulenc: Gloria & Stabat Mater
Françoise Pollet (soprano)
R.T.F. Choeur De Radio France, R.T.F. Maitrise De Radio France, Orchestre National De France, Charles Dutoit
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Special offer. Martin - Mass for Double Choir
Max Hanft (organ)
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Peter Dijkstra
There is much stunning choral singing on this disc, beautifully blended tonally, precisely calibrated dynamically, and shaped with the measured skilfulness of a bespoke tailor. —
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Here's almost two and a half hours of bliss. These are recordings to set aside for the time when, as the prayer says, 'the busy world is hushed'. Asked to characterise Fauré's and Duruflé's... —
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Building a Library, March 2003, First Choice
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Poulenc: Patricia Petibon
RecommendedPatricia Petibon (soprano)
Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi
Petibon brings an extra-terrestrial weightlessness to the 'Domine Deus'...and Järvi astutely manipulates Poulenc's distinctive instrumental timbres while sensitivitely cosseting his equally... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2013
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the disc feels as if it has been crafted with infinite care and love, and for that reason alone it is a joy to listen to...they sing with all the confident, sustained tone of an ensemble steeped... —
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Special offer. Poulenc - Concertos, Orchestral & Choral works
Françoise Pollet soprano (Gloria, Stabat Mater), François Le Roux baritone (Le Bal masqué, Le Bestiaire, Rapsodie nègre, Cocardes, Le Gendarme incompris, Quatre Poèmes de Max Jacob), Dominique Visse countertenor (Le Gendarme incompris), Lambert Wilson (Le Gendarme incompris), Chœur de Radio France...
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