Francis Poulenc

Pour Choeur Mixte A Cappella. Par POULENC FRANCIS. In 1936 Poulenc began creating the more sombre, austere tones of religion after returning to his Catholic faith. The Salve Regina was one of two motets Poulenc composed in 1941, the other being the Exultate Deo. The setting is exclamatory and triumphant, alternating between strict imitation and assertive homophony. For SATB a cappella./ Répertoire / Choeur

This setting of the opening to Psalm 102 was composed in the early 1680s. Purcell who was in his early twenties had succeeded John Blow as organist of Westminster Abbey around the beginning of the decade and his star was in the ascendant as a court composer.In this piece he pulls off a remarkable compositional coup: a single gradual climax lasting over two minutes and culminating on the final repetition of the word 'come' is achieved through a sublime freely developing eight-part weave of the opening material. The harmonies that result from the chromatic inflections on the word 'crying' all serve the mounting tension in this extraordinary miniature.Studyof the autograph manuscript suggest that this anthem was intended to be the opening part of a larger work which was never completed.

pour 2 sopranos, alto, ténor and basse extrait n° 3 des « Chansons françaises »

This title is taken from the compilation French Songs And Choruses For Mixed-Voice Choir (NOV165198) This song clearly not originally intended for the classical concert stage is a pretty piece in an old-fashioned popular music style. It has the quality of a popular valse-musette the kind of waltz-song that might be heard in a Paris restaurant played by a group with an accordion. Accordingly it usually is missing from official lists of Poulenc's music. It is not included in either Poulenc's discussion of his songs Journal de mes mélodies or the book on interpreting them by his singing partner Pierre Bernac 'FrancisPoulenc: The Man and His Music'. Arranged for SATB by Stuart Nicholson.

musique profanepour ch'ur mixte a cappellapoèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Éluard.Titres séparés :Sept Chansons : La blanche neige, À peine défigurée, Par une nuit nouvelle, Tous les droits, Belle et ressemblante, Marie, Luire ' Un soir de neige ' Chansons Françaises : Margoton va t' a l' iau, La Belle se sied au pied de la tour, Pilons l' orge, C' est la petit' fill' du prince, Ah ! mon beau laboureur, Les Tisserands

From his setting of the Gloria French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) has set this text in a rich incandescent manner which seems to portray a cosmic dance before the throne of heaven itself. Available for the first timeas a single exerpted movement in octavo form.