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Poulenc’s religious music, while expressing perfectly his profound Catholic faith, was always closely bound up with his relationships with friends and lovers. He had been catapulted back to the church in 1936 by the death in appalling circumstances of the composer Pierre-Octave Ferroud. His great opera Dialogues des Carmelites was deeply affected by the illness and death of his lover Lucien Roubert. These four exquisite miniatures seem to have been written, between November 1951 and May 1952, at least in part as gifts for their dedicatees: indeed they are such private pieces that no proper record exists of their first performance. What may have been their premiere was given, rather incongruously, in Madrid by the Netherlands Chamber Choir. |
| Disc No: GMCD 7226 | |
| Price: Sek. 157 | |
| Name: O Magnum Mysterium | |
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| Composer | Opus | Name | Key | Performer |
| Gauntlett, Henry John (1805-1876) | Once in Royal David’s City | The Choir of Lincoln College Oxford - Tom Lydon Philip Smith, Organ | ||
| Berkeley, Sir Lennox (1903-1989) | I Sing of a Maiden | |||
| Bruckner, Anton (1824-1896) | Virga Jesse | |||
| Howells, Herbert (1892 - 1983) | A Spotless Rose | |||
| Ireland, John (1879-1962) | The Holy Boy | |||
| Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) | Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël | |||
| Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) | O Magnum Mysterium | |||
| Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) | Quem Vidistis Pastores | |||
| Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) | Videntes Stellam | |||
| Poulenc, Francis (1899-1963) | Hodie Christus Natus Est | |||
| Victoria, Tomás Luis de (1548-1611) | O Magnum Mysterium | |||
| Leighton, Kenneth (1929-1988) | Coventry Carol | |||
| Traditional Normandy tune arr: Reginald Jacques | Away in a Manger | |||
| Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da (1525/6-1594) | Hodie Christus Natus Est | |||
| Villette, Pierre (1926-1998) | O Magnum Mysterium | |||
| Gigout, Eugčne (1844-1925) | Rhapsodie sur des Noëls | |||
| Piae Cantiones 1582 Arr. David Willcocks | Unto us is born a Son | |||
| Cornelius, Peter (1824-1874) arr: Sir Ivor Atkins | The Three Kings | |||
| Darke, Harold (1888-1976) | In the Bleak Midwinter | |||
| Warlock, Peter (1894-1930) | Bethlehem Down | |||
| Trad. arr: David Willcocks | O Come, All Ye Faithful |