Poulenc: Gloria; Motets

Poulenc: Gloria; Motets

Poulenc: Gloria; Motets
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Composer: Francis Poulenc
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia
Performer: Susan Gritton
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2008-03-11
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
  1. Gloria in G major: Gloria in excelsis Deo
  2. Gloria in G major: Laudamus te
  3. Gloria in G major: Domine Deus
  4. Gloria in G major: Domini Fili unigenite
  5. Gloria in G major: Domine Deus, agnus Dei
  6. Gloria in G major: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
  7. Salve regina
  8. Motets (4) pour un temps de pénitence: no 1, Timor et tremor
  9. Motets (4) pour un temps de pénitence: no 2, Vinea mea electa
  10. Motets (4) pour un temps de pénitence: no 3, Tenebrae factae sunt
  11. Motets (4) pour un temps de pénitence: no 4, Tristis est anima mea
  12. Motets (4) pour le temps de Noël: no 1, O magnum mysterium
  13. Motets (4) pour le temps de Noël: no 2, Quem vidistis pastores
  14. Motets (4) pour le temps de Noël: no 3, Videntes stellam
  15. Motets (4) pour le temps de Noël: no 4, Hodie Christus natus est
  16. Exultate Deo

Music reviews of Poulenc: Gloria; Motets

Music Review: Gloria in excelsis, indeed!
Rating: 5 Stars

There's little I can add to the excellent reviews for this disc, other than to explain why I believe it works. Poulenc's music requires good taste, or else its quirky shifts between traditional restraint and mild provacation can make it seem junky, witness the various subpar performances of his works on YouTube. In the "Gloria," Maestro Layton's choir (two combined groups) and orchestra give heat and weight when needed, but more important, they clearly understand when to back off. They're punchy in one passage that Poulenc admitted was partly inspired by seeing a group of monks play an impromptu game of soccer, but then utterly gentle in the final passage that feels to me like the shepherds quietly paying their respects to the Holy Family. Soprano Gusan Gritton shades her three solos resourcefully, by turns slightly despairing (3rd movement), coolly reticent (5th), and maternally peaceful (6th).

The a-cappella works sung by Layton's own vocal ensemble Polyphony similarly leave nothing to be desired, though I'd have enjoyed hearing the gentlemen's voices on the "Lauds to St. Anthony," the underrated counterpart to the "Four Little Prayers of St. Francis" that would have kept the program confined to Latin texts (the FLPs are in French). Any chance of a follow-up, Hyperion?
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