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Poulenc - Gloria & Motets | Hyperion CDA67623

Poulenc - Gloria & Motets

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67623

Barcode: 0034571176239

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 3rd March 2008

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Works

Poulenc
Gloria

Poulenc
Salve regina

Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence

Poulenc
Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel

Poulenc
Exultate Deo

Artists

Susan Gritton (soprano)
Polyphony
Britten Sinfonia
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

Conductor

Stephen Layton

Works

Poulenc
Gloria

Poulenc
Salve regina

Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence

Poulenc
Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel

Poulenc
Exultate Deo

Artists

Susan Gritton (soprano)
Polyphony
Britten Sinfonia
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

Conductor

Stephen Layton

About

Stephen Layton and Polyphony continue to blaze a trail as great interpreters and dazzling performers of a wide range of choral music. For their latest Hyperion disc they turn to some of the most bewitching and unusual, yet well-loved, choral works of the twentieth century.

Poulenc’s choral music is a deep expression both of his faith and of his unique musical language. In the various motets, the music responds to the composer’s studies of Bach, Monteverdi, Palestrina and Gabrieli, but is always stylistically progressive. Prominently featured are Poulenc’s distinctive and often ingenious chord progressions. Each motet has its own delightfully etched personality.

Poulenc’s Gloria is one of his most enduringly appealing works. In some ways straightforwardly pious, it is also tinged with mischievous irreverence and a sense of rollocking enjoyment. ‘When I wrote this piece’, Poulenc famously recalled, ‘I had in mind those frescoes by Gozzoli where the angels stick out their tongues; and also some serious Benedictine monks I had once seen revelling in a game of football.’

This recording by the Britten Sinfonia, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Polyphony and the soprano soloist Susan Gritton under Stephen Layton brings out all these aspects in a classic performance.

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