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Highlights from the 2008 St Magnus Festival in Orkney, including the first cyclic setting of the Mass written by a single composer and Poulenc's Poulenc's La figure humaine.

Series of highlights from the 2008 St Magnus Festival in Orkney. With a concert recorded in St Magnus Cathedral, featuring music spanning seven centuries of the French choral tradition, including the first cyclic setting of the Mass written by a single composer and Poulenc's hymn to freedom from occupation in France.

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Durufle: Motets sur un theme Gregorien
Messiaen: O sacrum convivium!
Perotin: Viderunt omnes
Poulenc: La figure humaine

Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor).

1 hour

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Fri 11 Jul 2008 13:00

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  • Fri 11 Jul 2008 13:00