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.
Recommended Version
Marlis Petersen (soprano)
Stuttgart Southwest Radio Vocal Ensemble
North German Radio Chorus
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra St茅phane Den猫ve (conductor)
Hanssler Classic 93297CD
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Giacomo Puccini
Donna non vidi mai (Manon Lescaut)
Singer: Freddie De Tommaso. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- DECCA.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major RV.293, Op.8 no.3 'Autumn' (1st mvt)
Music Arranger: Ragnhild Hemsing. Music Arranger: Tormod Tvete Vik. Performer: Ragnhild Hemsing. Ensemble: Barokkanerne.- The Norwegian Seasons.
- Berlin Classics.
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Giacomo Puccini
La Tregenda (Le Villi)
Orchestra: 麻豆社 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren.- 麻豆社 recording.
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Giacomo Puccini
Le Villi (La tregenda)
Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repu拧i膰.- BR Klassik.
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Giacomo Puccini
La Fanciulla del West (Mister Johnson, siete rimasto indietro)
Singer: Malin Bystr枚m. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conductor: Asher Fisch.- Sony.
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Giacomo Puccini
La Fanciulla del West (Quello che tacete)
Singer: Malin Bystr枚m. Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Conductor: Asher Fisch.- Sony.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Un ballo in maschera (Alla vita che t麓arride)
Singer: Gianni Maffeo. Orchestra: Prague National Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Jaroslav Vogel.- Supraphon.
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Giuseppe Verdi
O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
Singer: Gianni Maffeo. Orchestra: Prague National Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Jaroslav Vogel.- Supraphon.
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Giacomo Puccini
Gloria (Messa di Gloria)
Singer: Tomislav Mu啪ek. Singer: George Petean. Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Repu拧i膰.- BR Klassik.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no.99 in E flat major H.1.99 (3rd mvt)
Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.- RCA.
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Tom Coult
I & II [Beatus homo] (After Lassus)
Singer: Anna Dennis. Orchestra: 麻豆社 Philharmonic. Conductor: Andrew Gourlay.- NMC.
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Trad.
Coventry Carol
Performer: Jess Gillam. Music Arranger: Benjamin Rimmer. Ensemble: Jess Gillam Ensemble.- Decca.
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Traditional English
Nowell and Nowell
Music Arranger: Imogen Holst. Choir: Choir of St John's College, Oxford. Conductor: David Bannister.- Resonus Classics.
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Michael Tippett
Piano Concerto (3rd mvt)
Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2.
- London Philharmonic Orchestra.
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