Poulenc, Francis: Gloria
Artikelinfo
1997
2025
Francis Poulenc
Françoise Pollet
Südfunk-Chor (SWR Vokalensemble)
Chor der Württembergischen Staatstheater Stuttgart
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
GEORGES PRÊTRE
FRANCIS POULENC (1899–1963): Gloria (1959)
I Gloria
II Laudamus te
III Domine Deus
IV Domine fili unigenite
V Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
VI Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
Francis Poulenc was from the southern part of France and had been shaped by his homeland in the sense of a ‘rural’, intense but joyous Catholicism. He regarded his Gloria as a more exuberant counterpart to some of his other sacred works, and it is in this spirit that the first movement begins in a festive mood with a striking, fanfarelike motif in the full orchestra. If Poulenc cited Gozzoli frescoes with monks sticking out their tongues and Benedictine monks playing football as the source of inspiration for his Gloria, then nowhere is this more immediately exemplified than in the
second movement with its rhythmically pointed text of the
This single is part of the CD "GABRIEL FAURÉ: Requiem / FRANCIS POULENC: Gloria" (SWR19166CD), Release Jan. 2026
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