Poulenc: Gloria / Honegger: Symphony No. 3, Liturgique (Live) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Mariss Jansons

• 1 Gloria 02:21
• 2 Laudamus te 03:09
• 3 Domine Deus 04:06
• 4 Domine Fili unigenite 01:23
• 5 Domine Deus, Agnus Dei 05:27
• 6 Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris 06:32
• 7 I. Dies Irae: Allegro marcato 07:14
• 8 II. De profundis clamavi: Adagio 11:30
• 9 III. Dona nobis pacem: Andante 10:29
• Total Runtime 52:11

Info for Poulenc: Gloria / Honegger: Symphony No. 3, Liturgique (Live)

This release from RCO Live presents chief conductor Mariss Jansons with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in two works that were created from totally different philosophies of life. Even though they were lifelong friends, there was a great contrast between Arthur Honegger and Francis Poulenc, two members of the French group of composers known as 'Les Six'. The former a French-speaking Swiss Protestant whose family came from the Zuricher Oberland and the latter a Catholic, but frivolous Parisian. The two religious compositions recorded here are also extremely different in character: Honegger's Symphonie liturgique is filled with somber warnings, whilst Poulenc's ecstatic Gloria is an unequivocal paean of rejoicing.

“The Netherlands Radio Choir is impressively well-drilled… The Slovakian soprano Luba Orgonásová soars majestically over the whole, alternately creating serenity and high drama as required. …a modern reading that is monumental but never melodramatic.” (BBC Music Magazine)

Luba Orgonásová, soprano
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Netherlands Radio Choir
Simon Halsey & Gijs Leenaars, chorusmasters
Mariss Jansons, conductor

Recorded Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam: Honeger on 4 and 6 September 2004, Poulenc on 22, 23 and 25 December 2005

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