Poulenc: Gloria; Stabat Mater cover

Poulenc: Gloria; Stabat Mater

Composer
Deutsche Grammophon
Released
1989

In this luminous 1989 recording of Poulenc’s late sacred choral masterpieces, Stabat Mater (1951) and Gloria (1959), playfulness and piety refract through the clarion voice of soprano Kathleen Battle like the light streaming through the stained glass windows that adorn its cover, fully irradiating the composer’s sublime spectrum of sacred and profane.

Zev Kane

Suggestions
Impermanence cover

Impermanence

 Lorelei Ensemble
Johann Sebastian Bach cover

Johann Sebastian Bach

 Víkingur Ólafsson
Mass for the Endangered cover

Mass for the Endangered

 Gallicantus, Gabriel Crouch
Calcutta 1789: À la croisée de l'Europe et de l'Inde cover

Calcutta 1789: À la croisée de l'Europe et de l'Inde

 Christopher Palameta, Notturna
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123 cover

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123

 Masaaki Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan
Anima Sacra cover

Anima Sacra

 Maxim Emelyanychev, Il Pomo d'Oro, Jakub Józef Orliński
Dvorák: Stabat Mater cover

Dvorák: Stabat Mater

 Eri Nakamura, Michael Spyres, Elisabeth Kulman, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek
Fähndrich: Viola cover

Fähndrich: Viola

 Walter Fähndrich
Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1-3 cover

Haydn: String Quartets Op. 76 Nos. 1-3

 Chiaroscuro Quartet
Bach: Goldberg Variations cover

Bach: Goldberg Variations

 Beatrice Rana
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 cover

Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7

 Kevin John Edusei, Münchner Symphoniker
Libertà! Mozart & the Opera cover

Libertà! Mozart & the Opera

 Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon, Sabine Devieilhe