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Poulenc: Stabat Mater, Litanies à la Vierge noire

Ensemble Aedes

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released October 20, 2023 | Aparté

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The Stabat Mater of Francis Poulenc, completed in 1951, may be the latest work ever performed on historical instruments, but they do make a difference in this rendition by the instrumental group Les Siècles, with the vocal Ensemble Aedes (no mosquito repellent needed) under director Mathieu Romano. He forges a sharp, incisive vocal style to go with the penetrating sounds of the winds and brass in a sensitive performance that runs crosswise to rather than emphasizing the neo-Romantic sentimentality of this late Poulenc work. It makes a good pairing with the earlier Litanies à la Vierge noire, for both works were inspired by the figure of the Black Madonna of Rocamadour, and both involved the composer's responses to the deaths of friends. The Litanies are less commonly heard, and they are performed here in their original version for a three-part female choir and organ. It is a transparent piece with stark dissonances, and it makes a stronger impression than the later orchestral version. In between is a chanson by Clément Janequin, which is claimed by Romano to show "the same mastery of the art of choral composition and of harmony, and the same 'apparent simplicity' favouring the expression of pure emotion." With the album clocking in at just over 41 minutes, the inclusion of a few more works by Janequin or another Renaissance composer might have allowed a fuller evaluation of this idea, but the performances, as usual with these groups, are compelling, and they are augmented by the rich sounds of soprano soloist Marianne Croux and of the Cavaillé-Coll organ played by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in the Litanies. There is much here to attract Poulenc lovers.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Francis Poulenc : Stabat Mater

Daniel Reuss

Sacred Vocal Music - Released March 10, 2014 | harmonia mundi

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Poulenc: Stabat Mater. Salve Regina. Litanies à la Vierge noire

Michele Lagrange

Masses, Passions, Requiems - Released January 1, 1985 | harmonia mundi

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Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Concertos - Released August 1, 2018 | London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater

Alexandre Tharaud

Classical - Released August 1, 2018 | London Philharmonic Orchestra

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Francis Poulenc : Stabat Mater - Les Biches

Marlis Petersen

Classical - Released January 29, 2013 | SWR Classic

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The two works on this album present diametrically opposed sides of Francis Poulenc's musical personality and career. Les biches (it means "the does," in case you were wondering) is a joyous, somewhat raucous ballet of Poulenc's youth, an answer to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring that touches on jazz, neoclassicism (specifically neo-Baroque styles), French popular music, and more in a consistently surprising mixture that includes an offstage choir. The Stabat Mater, composed after a friend's death in 1950, came after Poulenc's reconversion to Catholicism, and it is typical of the radiant, melodic, tonally oriented style of his later years. Conductor Stéphane Denève is emerging as a major conductor of French repertory, and he does a superb job here with the diverse styles of these two works. Les biches crackles with slightly illicit erotic energy. The limpid melodies of the Stabat Mater, as is so often the case with Poulenc, conceal parts that require really top-notch choral singing, and the combined efforts of Denève and the coaches of the combined NDR Choir and Vocal Ensemble of the Southwest German Radio get some spectacularly quiet and controlled choral sounds in the Stabat Mater. Sample the "Quam tristis," track 3, for some amazing controlled choral work at very low dynamic levels. The virtuoso quality of this entire effort commends it for sampling in a crowded marketplace of Poulenc recordings, as does the superb engineering from Hänssler, which renders these sterling choral performances in great detail. © TiVo
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Poulenc: Gloria/ Stabat Mater

Georges Prêtre/Barbara Hendricks

Classical - Released September 29, 1989 | Warner Classics

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Poulenc : Gloria - Stabat Mater

Kathleen Battle

Classical - Released January 1, 1989 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Poulenc: Gloria & Stabat Mater

Yan Pascal Tortelier

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released January 1, 1979 | Chandos

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Szymanowski & Poulenc: Stabat Maters

Robert Shaw

Classical - Released October 1, 1994 | Telarc

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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater

Jakub Józef Orliński

Classical - Released March 18, 2022 | Warner Classics

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In this new interpretation of Vivaldi’s famous Stabat Mater, hedonism gives way to a pain and suffering that’s uncommon in compositions by this red-headed priest. Accompanied by the Capella Cracoviensis and meticulously directed by Jan Tomasz Adamus, the Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński offers a fresh take on this music. This is mainly owed to his skilful ornamentation that enriches Vivaldi’s long, yet rather simple vocal lines. This score by Vivaldi was only discovered in 1939, and this highly expressive performance gives the piece a haunting tone and a profoundly melancholic dimension.Le Stabat Mater is Vivaldi’s oldest known vocal masterpiece, dating back to approximately 1711. At this time, the composer was in Brescia helping his father, a violinist. A short time after, he would assume his post in Ospedale della Pietà in Venice (a hospice and music conservatory for orphans). Vivaldi spent 40 years there as a violin teacher, principal composer and choirmaster. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Boccherini : Cello Concertos, Stabat Mater & Quintet

Ophélie Gaillard

Classical - Released February 22, 2019 | Aparté

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Cellist Ophélie Gaillard and Pulcinella Orchestra focus on Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and first virtuoso cellist in history. Born in the Tuscany, Boccherini then went to the Court of Prussa and Spain. His musical education looks like a journey around Europe, as it used to be. Long eclipsed by the violin, star of the string instruments, the cello slowly fit in the eighteenth century repertoire thanks to composers who played the instrument themselves. The now famous Suites of Johan Sebastian Bach are the first master pieces composed for the cello. Then Luigi Boccherini strengthened its place in the musical creation, thus becoming to cello what Vivaldi was to the violin one generation earlier. With rhythms of dance from Andalusia and melodies dug along the streets of Madrid, Boccherini draws with notes his adopted country such as his contemporary Francisco Goya did with colours. This double album explores all the genres (concertos, sonatas, symphonies) and invites the gorgeous Sandrine Piau to perform Boccherini’s poignant Stabat Mater for string quintet and solo soprano. © Aparté/Little Tribeca
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Maria Mater Meretrix

Anna Prohaska

Classical - Released April 14, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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By no means should you be expecting the "typical" productions we so often associate with the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Together with the soprano Anna Prohaska, she has developed a highly original programme which brings violin and vocals together. In this respect, while we were delighted to find a recording of the beautiful and all too rare Maria-Triptychon, which Frank Martin wrote in 1968 for Irmgard Seefried and her violinist husband Wolfgang Schneiderhan, we wonder whether it was really necessary to dismantle this polyptych whose three movements tell the story of the mother of Christ with perfect fluidity.It must be said that the entirety of this unusual album feels rather all over the place, very much like György Kurtág who unsurprisingly features in this curious inventory of a thousand years of music, from Hildegard von Bingen to the present day.We need to look elsewhere for the main theme and, more precisely, at the questioning of the two musicians around the subject of female emancipation and “the sensitive exploration of their common experiences as women evolving in the current music industry.” This quest for content, set to music around the figure of Mary, evokes a mixture of shimmering colours created by the Camerata de Berne orchestra, and depicts a journey through the ages and arias which incorporates so many of the contradictions of human nature. We highly recommend that you immerse yourself fully, and listen to these twenty tracks from beginning to end. This way you will be better able to appreciate this strangely fascinating patchwork, which feels like a work of art in its own right. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Arvo Pärt: Stabat Mater & Other Works

Morphing Chamber Orchestra

Minimal Music - Released October 28, 2022 | Aparté

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Arvo Pärt is one of the greatest and most performed of living composers. Slow and meditative, often religious, reflecting his mystical experiences, Pärt’s works are unmistakeable. In 1976 he created a unique musical language called "tintinnabuli", which continues to define his work to this day. Here Morphing Chamber Orchestra, under its artistic director Tomasz Wabnic, performs some of the Estonian composer’s finest instrumental works, Fratres, Spiegel im Spiegel and Summa, together with one of his vocal masterpieces, the Stabat Mater, presented here in a new arrangement, sung by three of today’s greatest operatic voices, Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak and Andreas Scholl. Several shorter pieces, marvels of poetry and purity, sung by Andreas Scholl, complete this programme. © Aparté
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Pergolesi : Stabat Mater - Laudate pueri - Confitebor

Philippe Jaroussky

Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released November 1, 2013 | Warner Classics International

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Haydn: Stabat Mater

René Jacobs

Classical - Released March 17, 2023 | PentaTone

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Haydn's Stabat mater of 1767 was his first major public choral work as kapellmeister at Esterháza palace. The composer brought together various styles, from Baroque counterpoint to opera seria to the newer melodicism in its composition, and he obviously thought highly of the work; at the end of his life, he worked with his student Sigismund Neukomm on a revision that added wind parts. This was one of the last creative acts in Haydn's career, and this 2023 release by René Jacobs and the Kammerorchester Basel would be worth hearing just for the chance to hear this version. Beyond this, Jacobs, unlike some other conductors who specialize in Baroque music, is a strong Haydn conductor. He catches the ambitions of the work with punchy treatments of the brass and winds, and his vocal soloists are strong. The forces are appropriate to what Haydn, who is known to have conducted this work in Vienna with a group of 60, would have used, and there is an X factor here related to the sense conveyed of a young composer really coming into his own. The sound from the Paul Sacher Saal at Basel's Don Bosco cultural center is quite good, suggesting a church ambiance with greater clarity, but the relatively small string section is a bit overpowered. This recording made classical best-seller charts in the spring of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Pergolesi : Stabat Mater

Christophe Rousset

Classical - Released February 28, 2020 | Alpha Classics

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Longstanding partners Sandrine Piau and Christophe Rousset have frequently performed the Stabat Mater, an emblematic work of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan repertory, both together and with other musicians. It was therefore a natural step for them to record this supreme masterpiece of sacred music. They are joined here by a relative newcomer to Les Talens Lyriques who has also become a regular partner with the ensemble, the American countertenor Christopher Lowrey. The programme is completed by a Beatus vir by Leonardo Leo (1694-1744), sung by Christopher Lowrey, and a Salve Regina for soprano (Sandrine Piau) by Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), two totally unknown works by two composers who were nevertheless very famous at the time – Porpora, for example, was Farinelli’s singing teacher and mentor to the youthful Haydn. Christophe Rousset finds in this music ‘an expression of very Mediterranean, very highly flavoured piety, in which one moves from tears to laughter quite quickly’. Sandrine Piau sees in Leo ‘an elegance of style, a certain distance in sorrow’. © Alpha Classics
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Rossell: Salve Regina

Ensemble Resonanz

Sacred Vocal Music - Released March 19, 2021 | harmonia mundi

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Here is the work of a genius who died at the age of twenty-six: Pergolesi's Stabat Mater is one of the miracles of eighteenth-century sacred music. Nourished by their experience of ‘setting in resonance’ early and contemporary repertories, Riccardo Minasi and the Hamburg musicians shed an astonishingly modern light on these moving pieces, in which the voices of Giulia Semenzato and Lucile Richardot intertwine in the most sublime of communions. The Stabat is echoed by Joan Rossell’s poignant Salve Regina, long attributed to Pergolesi himself. © harmonia mundi
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Stabat Mater pour deux castrats

Samuel Marino

Classical - Released March 5, 2021 | Château de Versailles Spectacles

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Two countertenors for Pergolesi's Stabat Mater: this is the resurrection of the first performance in France of this work, introduced by two Italian Castratos from the Royal Chapel of Louis XV, who were enthusiastic propagators of it both at Court and at the Concert Spirituel. Paris was conquered and saw in it the revolutionary mark of a Neapolitan genius, who alas passed away so young. Pergolesi, shortly before his death at the age of 26 and affected by illness, expressed the Virgin's suffering with the language of passion more typical of opera. The Stabat Mater, first performed in 1736, is one of the emblematic works of the baroque and had a profound effect on the musical world of the 18th century. To give full splendour to the sumptuous duet of angelic voices lamenting the pain of Mary at the foot of the Cross, two performers are required who blend their timbres, like the two Neapolitan castratos for whom this music was composed. The brilliant sopranist Samuel Marino and the no less brilliant counter-tenor Filippo Mineccia form the exceptional duo for this programme of emotion and virtuosity. © Château de Versailles Spectacles
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Luigi Boccherini : Stabat Mater & Symphonies

Chiara Banchini

Sacred Vocal Music - Released January 1, 2006 | harmonia mundi

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Supremely lovely and deeply beautiful, the performances on this two-disc set devoted to the music of Luigi Boccherini are compelling proof that the Italian-Spanish composer was more than a Rococo bantam weight. Beyond his well-known Minuet, Fandango, and "La Ritirada di Madrid" and his enormous number of cheerful cello concertos and sonatas written for the cello-playing Spanish king, Boccherini was also a composer of quartets, quintets, symphonies, and sacred works that rival those of his contemporary Haydn. This coupling of four symphonies, a string quintet, and the Stabat Mater by the Ensemble 415 led from the violin by Chiara Banchini is a wonderful introduction to Boccherini's art. In the three-movement symphonies, Banchini leads strong but sensitive performances that bring out the music's lyrical themes, subtle colors, and elegant shapes. With sweet-voiced soprano Agnés Mellon, Banchini finds within a strict sequence of recitatives and arias the sorrow, pity, and unshakable faith in the Stabat Mater. But perhaps best of all is the Quintet in C minor, Op. 31/4. The immensity of its grief, the austerity of its themes, and the intensity of expression is musically and emotionally overwhelming. Recorded in 1988 and 1991 in Harmonia Mundi's clearest, coolest sound, this two-disc set should be heard by anyone with an interest in music in the second half of the eighteenth century.© TiVo