Poulenc's Stabat Mater, in Building a Library with Jeremy Sams & Andrew McGregor
Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater, and Flora Willson shares her choices of the latest releases of Puccini, who died 100 years ago yesterday.
Andrew McGregor with the best new recordings of classical music.
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Flora Willson shares her choices of the latest releases of one of the greatest and most popular opera composers, Giacomo Puccini, who died 100 years ago yesterday.
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Building a Library
Jeremy Sams selects his favourite version of Poulenc's Stabat Mater.
Poulenc wrote his dramatic Stabat Mater after the death of his friend, the artist Christian B茅rard and after a visit to the shrine of the Black Virgin of Rocamadour. His setting of the medieval Stabat Mater text is scored for soprano solo, mixed chorus, and orchestra and was premiered in 1951.
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