Francis Poulenc: STABAT MATER [complete version] 

This is probably my favorite example of how gloriously wonderful the music of Francis poulenc is

Klare und durchsichtige live Aufführung dieses harmonisch anspruchsvollen Meisterwerks mit perfekter Synchronisierung aller Stimmen und Instrumente. Der geniale Dirigent leitet den ganzen Chor und das ganzen Orchester sehr künstlerisch im angemessenen Tempo und ohne überflüssige Agogik. Einfach Klasse!

Je rentre progressivement dans le monde musical complexe de Poulenc. Cette oeuvre se laisse aprovoiser petit à petit. Et cette "version "est juste parfaite !

j´ai eu le bonheur de jouer cette oeuvre, très émouvante

How moving is this work! And this performance is a beautiful homage to Francis Poulenc.

For many years I avoided listening to Poulenc in the misguided opinion that his music would have no appeal to me. (I was stuck in the 19th/early 20th c mould) How wrong I was but that's what experience and growing up is all about. A unique talent with a special place in the canon of great 20th c composers.

I sang this with a local choir many many years ago and was not familiar with Poulenc until then. I have fond memories of that concert and the effect his music had on me. Very nice job folks.

Oh, I remember (as solo soprano) this wonderful concert ;-) But it was a pity that my recording microphone was failed. So my voice is too quiet - compared to choir and orchestra. Still, I love the recording, and the piece. Poulenc is blessed by heaven.

This is so moving. Wonderful

DIVINE PERFOMANCES . MANY THANKS, FAMTASTIC

...For a second I read STABAT as Soprano Tenor Alto Bass Alto Tenor...

What a wonderful concert! Brilliant choir and soprano!

Magnifique version du Stabat Mater de Poulenc.

Замечательная музыка ! Замечательное исполнение ! Спасибо за публикацию !

Alle wunderschön Toll das das mit demSmartfon heutzutag abends zu Hause so grossartigevMusik zu hö ren

Poulenc's sacred music is radiantly beautiful - especially since he grafts a sweet French folk idiom into the solemn mix.

Este es el Stabat Mater más hermoso que existe.

Amazing Music, dense Atmosphere. Great Singers and Orchestra, this piece is not easy to peform.

Coro e soprano (!) 6. Vidit suum 10:49 10. Fac ut portem 21:26 12. Quando corpus 26:42

Altra meraviglia che si aggiunge alle mie modeste conoscenze.

The best Stabat Mater of all time has to be Poulenc's Stabat Mater. It perfectly encapsulates what it must have been like from Good Friday to Easter Sunday, for Mary to lose her son, the literal son of God, the King of kings. I always come back to this around Easter. As much as it touches me to listen, it is markedly life changing to sing this in a choir amongst a skilled group of musicians. I remember getting misty and crying while looking around in awe at how beautiful this piece is as others around me continued singing the notes from their binder. We practiced these notes like math for months and it grabbed my heart in an emotional way.

Beautiful!!!.

Wonderful 20th Century classic. Keeps up the French choral tradition of Faure. Magical.

I love this Stabat Mater.

superbe!!!

mon préféré ! j'aime Poulenc

I recommend you should discover Poulenc like I did -- having exhausting most of classical music, growing bored, leaving the genre then discovering this. It felt like 2001 Kubrick. Like I had reached the limit of human understanding. It is that profound.

Wunderbare Interpretation.

Absolument magnifique

A lovely performance of Poulenc’s most sublime sacred work. Consider the camera work that of a standby helper. The choir more and players more than make up for it.

Солистка просто богиня!! Сложнейшая партия и такое великолепное исполнение!!!

좋은 음악 고맙습니다. 잘 듣고갑니다. 마치 한 편의 영화 음악같습니다 ㅎㅎ

Poulec converted himself to catholicism during a travel to Rocamadour and wrote many voacla religious scores, with orchestra or a capella. This stabat mater is one of his most moving scores.

Wow~! Such a nice piece ! I ❤️Poulenc !!

chef-d'oeuvre !!..

You are very good and Poulenc is really brilliant. My choir sang "Les Tisserands" in quarantine style. Write this down in the research. You will love it for sure: Corale Novarmonia - Les Tisserands (F. Poulenc)

I love Pulenk and his music

excellent

71st Anniversary of the world premiere of Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater Concert-anniversary and musicological conference-presentation given on the occasion of the 71st anniversary of the world premiere of Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater by the Choir of Saint-Guillaume under the direction of Fritz Münch in 1951. The Saint-Guillaume Choir is an emblematic group from Strasbourg with a prestigious history, created in 1885 by Ernest Münch and having counted among its members and supporters Albert Schweitzer, Arthur Honegger and Francis Poulenc. The Choir is a leading player in the musical heritage of Alsace and cultivates the interpretation of the great vocal symphonic works, in particular those of J.S. Bach. It is made up of amateur volunteers of a high musical level and is organized as a non-profit association, open to all. On June 13, 1951, the ensemble premiered Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater with the Strasbourg Municipal Orchestra, which later became the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Fritz Münch, brother of Charles Münch and son of the founder of the Saint-Guillaume Choir, Ernest Münch. This group will perform the work again on June 5 in Strasbourg and on June 11 at the invitation of the Dominicans of Guebwiller for the 71st anniversary of its world premiere. Project details: The Saint-Guillaume Choir, prepared by its musical director Béatrice Dunoyer, is organizing an event-concert around the Stabat Mater as part of an innovative transversal collaboration, initiated with Vincent Dubois, Director of the Conservatory and the Higher Academy of Music of Strasbourg-Haute école des arts du Rhin, between amateurs and musicians in training of excellence prepared by Jean-Philippe Billmann, all animated by the same artistic requirement under the direction of Claude Schnitzler, conductor from Strasbourg with an international career. The Stabat Mater, whose soloist will be Maria Giuliana Seguino, will be preceded by works by W.A Mozart, M. Duruflé, Du Jonchay and Poulenc. A lecture-presentation "fil-rouge" given under the aegis of the musicologist Mathieu Schneider of the University of Strasbourg will precede the Stabat Mater and will bring a scholarly light to the musicological dimension of the work in order to trace its genesis and creation in its historical, musical and artistic context. This event, whose impact has been echoed as far away as the United States, since an article was written for the occasion by musicologist Sylvia Kahan of New York University, will be performed for the first time on Sunday, June 5, 2022, at 5:00 p.m. in the Palais des Fêtes in Strasbourg, the original venue for the work's creation, and then a second time on Saturday, June 11, at 7:00 p.m. at the invitation of the Dominicans of Haute-Alsace in Guebwiller. This project will bring together more than one hundred and sixty musicians around the same passion for music and the remarkable pages of its history written within the musical world of Strasbourg. This event will also be the occasion of an official presentation with the deposit of original autograph letters from Francis Poulenc, property of the Saint-Guillaume Choir, addressed to Fritz Münch, notably from New York where he received the Critics' Circle Prize for the best choral work of the year. With this project, the Saint-Guillaume Choir initiates the celebration of a major page in the history of music written in Strasbourg by associating in the same impetus its demanding and passionate amateur choristers with young musicians in training of excellence, by paying tribute under the direction of conductor Claude Schnitzler, to a prestigious, fervent and authentic lineage in the service of music.

Wondermooi, ontroerend Stabat Mater!!!

gute Stimmen und Orchester und gleichfalls Dirigent, ausgezeichnet wuerde ich sagen ! Monteverdichor, vielleicht kaemen Sie eines Tages nach Mexiko ?

der Himmel spricht

Hondamente sentido e interpretado

Ģeniāla mūzika!!!

-- Suberbe Stabat Mater de F.Poulenc. --

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Einfach unfassbar

Een erg mooie uitvoering! Welk orkest is dit? Alle lof! Mooie sopraan ook, maar Barbara Hendricks, altijd goed in het Franse repertoire heeft iets meer expressie. Heel fijn koor. Dank.

toonkunst gouda had deze ook gedaan toen ik nog lid was. Mooi stuk dat zeker.

What incredible soprano solo!! What's her name and where I can listen this exiting voice?

Weer even terug naar het jaar 1960: Toonkunstkoor Zeist o.l.v. Ad Houtman. Als repetitor mee-ingestudeerd en als koorlid (bas) meegezongen. Geweldige ervaring! Die Würzburger: AUSGEZEICHNET!!!

Like a dream

Muzyka to wielka pociecha.

le cuando corpus est jsute magnifique, surtout la fin olala

Love this music

I agree that the choir's intonation is wonderful, and it's only the 2nd time I've heard such a relatively young group sound well prepared in this piece. The soprano is fine and the orchestra is admirably careful about balance. All that being said, I think the conductor's interpretation is emotionally underpowered in a couple spots, and a few tempo choices feel a bit off -- poky in 2 and 7 and rushed in 4 (though that one might grow on me). Thanks for posting!

Как красиво

Dynamic

Un minuto di silenzio per il primo violino che batte il tempo coi piedi….

I love this music from Poulenc, however this rendition isn't completely flawlessly.

Poulenc is Catholicism without fear, plus lots of light, fresh air and oxygen. With such Catholicism, everyone could breathe up =:)

Barbara Hannigan

EXQUISITA MUSICA

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only thing I don't like is the basses section, they're simply too young, no deep dark tone this piece need, but very well done, love this work!

Listen to EMI Classics version- Georges Prêtres, with Régine Crespin soloist- is definitive! version for me- and I believe for all!

Wonderful and enjoyable as this beautifully preformed work is, it seems like a carbon copy of Poulenc's ' Gloria '.

9:30

I prefer Bachs Stabat Mater.

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