Francis Poulenc - Mass in G Major [With score]

[@alexwarstadt6191]

My intro music theory professor used to say "with good voice-leading, you can go anywhere". Poulenc really proves him right.

[@blinkvideo]

And the way he orchestrates the choir. Having the tenors repeat a baritone line to change the texture. Just astounding.

[@cobblestonegenerator]

If you like this you should try Hindemiths Six Chansons. Same deal. Incredible sounds through pretty conservative looking voice leading. P.s. sorry im 2 years late.

[@SpaceMalakhi]

@@cobblestonegenerator I'm 3 years late, but thank you very much for this recommandation! It's beautiful

[@blinkvideo]

The men & boys' choir I sang in in Indianapolis sang this piece at Notre Dame, Paris. Some guy brought out a microphone on a stand for the boy singing the Agnus Dei intro. The kid was insulted, and belted out that solo so it fed back the sound system. The mike was removed, and he went on to utterly own the building.

[@joelwallenius2877]

Certified banger. Difficult not to cry a bit when Sanctus plays ~~~~

[@valentinabettisorbelli615]

Una tra le cose più belle che io abbia mai ascoltato in vita mia... Grazie Poulenc, grazie musicisti e compositori per quello che regalate all'umanità.

[@LudwolfBeethozart1485]

This is one of the greatest compositions in history, but it is criminally unknown

[@jmbailly5546]

Voilà une chose merveilleuse !!!!

[@Nooticus]

So so glad to see this genius masterpiece has so many views 🥲 every single note here is perfection

[@1964ALCOZER]

Bellissima 💘

[@korosilorinc6058]

One of the most wonderful masses I ever heard!!

[@yordankaacosta2849]

Thank you for uploading this wonderful work!!! This mass is incredibly beautiful. I've never heard an Hosanna more beautiful, it is so glorious!!!

[@ЖаннаСадыкова-ю1т]

Amazing work ! Bravo conductor and choir !

[@LaRush62]

I love Poulenc and I love this work. I performed it in college and it was a bitch to sing, but hearing it here, I want to sing it again.

[@georgealderson4424]

Lawrence Rush I have just heard this piece for the first time today. It is quite a contrast to Erik Satie's Mass For The Poor but moving nontheless.

[@maryjulia636]

My choir sang it as well. When I was in 7th grade we went to Italy and sang it at St. Peter's Basilica. The gelato was great! :)

[@willlavoie9537]

@@maryjulia636 7th grade?!?!?! I find this music challenging for collegiate singers. That's more than impressive.

[@sergiokovachevich6727]

I sing in the "Coro Alberto Ginastera" (before called "Coro del Conservatorio de Música de Morón"), conducted by Roberto Saccente, from Buenos Aires (Argentina), and we recorded this "Mass in G major" in 1996, with other choral contemporary music, from different composers. It was the most difficult work in our choral history, but it is a very beatiful version. Search it and enjoy it!!!

[@LaRush62]

@@sergiokovachevich6727 I will!

[@Nooticus]

Probably my favourite Mass ever, and one of my all-time favourite Poulenc works. It should definitely be more performed (if there are choirs up to the challenge...!)

[@edgarreitz7067]

What about Poulencs Gloria? For me its equally beautiful, misterious and even much crazier and out of this world.

[@Nooticus]

@@edgarreitz7067 I love Poulenc's Gloria, but for me personally it is nothing compared to this. For me this is way more dramatic, way more emotional and way more real. But your opinion is as valid as mine!

[@edgarreitz7067]

@@Nooticus i would agree in terms of being more "pure". Like the Agnus Dei is so misterious here, i even get vibes from the ancient greeks as well as from 1000 years of church chant! Meanwhile in the Gloria its misterious on the hand while being completely weird. Both pieces bring me to laughter as well as to very religious spheres in the most unexpected ways!

[@Nooticus]

@@edgarreitz7067 absolutely agree! you're great :) have a good day!

[@edgarreitz7067]

@@Nooticus thanks! You too!

[@josepmartinezbonnin4185]

OMG, Poulenc

[@mitzypinks1338]

I adore this mass it’s my favourite. I adore the top soprano line, suits my voice nice and high.

[@raymondboudreau]

Lucky you!

[@krotevich]

Superbe !

[@colefortier]

my heart at 8:59 :)))

[@mitzypinks1338]

Cole Fortier And my heart at 4:49 😂😍

[@Nooticus]

^^

[@CintiadelosSantos]

Wonderfull piece!

[@romearomeo]

Sublime

[@giovannismartini479]

2:48

[@XinhaoZheng]

1:18 sounds like Ravel's _Trois beaux oiseaux du paradis_ .

[@OrbiliusMagister]

8:07, when the "sabaoth" hits you in the stomach!

[@CanaldeArquitetura]

Lindo

[@FreeTheJambon]

Je me demande comment ils font pour s'y retrouver avec tous ces changements de tonalité. Sacré Francis.

[@UGOROBIN]

OUI C'EST TRES DIFFICILE IL FAUT DES HEURES DE REPETITIONS ET DU TRAVAIL

[@공계정2]

Ughhhh♡♡♡

[@edumeleroverdu8509]

Very sensual and suggestive, ironically (or maybe not!)

[@Nooticus]

It's Poulenc!!! ;)

[@treesny]

Your comment is surely a bit of an overstatement. As Poulenc himself pointed out, there is considerable stylistic continuity between his sacred and secular choral works (he was referencing the choral sections of his comic opera LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS and his STABAT MATER). This interplay of the Here-and-Now and the Eternal flows both ways, and is an intrinsic part of his greatness as a composer.

[@accidentalbreakfast1605]

Is the "filius patris" in the Gloria the same motif as what he wrote in the slower, later part of his Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani??

[@raymondboudreau]

That's what I was thinking too.

[@pawdaw]

Yep, and the final section of the Agnus is re-used in the closing bars of Dialogues des Carmélites.

[@rachelspencer777]

Does anyone here know about John Howard Griffin?? He wrote about this mass in one of his books and it’s lead me here :)

[@nathaniellathy6559]

Not Mass in B Minor by Bach or Palestrina or Williams' Mass in G Minor. Still I'm always glad to hear TLM. Novus Ordo doesn't come close

[@ericgolitsyn2930]

s'il n'y avait pas un texte d'église qui me veuille et me donne le français, vous pouvez écouter!

[@lockerby]

"close friend" Sure, Jan

[@treesny]

Ferroud was a fellow composer, and a talented one. At the time of his tragic death, was he also, or had he been in an intimate personal relationship with Poulenc? I've never read that anywhere, so I'm not sure where your comment comes from.

[@Jean-MarcLesage1959]

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