Poulenc - Gloria

[@Indigo_404]

I'm singing this in my college choir this year (I'm a Tenor 2). I'm a freshman and I'm so honored to do this piece! Update: My concert just happened, and my choir did amazing! Movement 2 was by far the hardest for me,,,, I'm so lucky to have performed this :)

[@ambarrivera6049]

my college is doing it too, we're hosting a Poulenc festival and the whole music area is involved in playing his music, it's so cool :)

[@Indigo_404]

@@ambarrivera6049that’s so cool!! We’re only doing this one, but collaborating with another college’s orchestra for it :)

[@Indigo_404]

@@ambarrivera6049 that’s so cool!!!

[@MichaelConwayBaker]

I have loved this piece for over 50 years.

[@AleksandrBurel]

For correct navigation: I Gloria 0:00 II Laudamus te 2:56 III Domine Deus 6:03 IV Domine Fili Unigenite 10:38 V Domine Deus, Agnus Dei 11:58 VI Qui sades ad dexteram Patris 18:26

[@mamieklokloh1887]

Merci pour ces précisions. Thanks for those informations.

[@parzh]

Данке шён

[@rr7firefly]

Yes, this is what we need and want. The time cues. Not the length of each track.

[@maryhales4595]

Not all heroes wear capes.

[@sharonkempton7925]

Thank you!

[@Bruce1526]

Sang this in 1970 at Madison College (now James Madison University) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Brings back many joyous memories.

[@olegkrylov380]

Wonderful Poulenc, so spheric and refreshing different to other sacred Music.

[@steveegallo3384]

Check out Penderecki and Pärt someday......

[@rr7firefly]

Please tell me what you mean by spheric. That's a very intriguing use of that geometric term.

[@MegaCirse]

Écouter cette musique est comprendre que le matérialisme est une folie. Écoutez comme la magie, la beauté, l’errance et la tragédie ont des voix subtiles et apaisantes !

[@royalefroggyz9742]

Simply magical

[@georgebiggs89]

How exquisite! To have this recording of Poulenc's haunting and exquisite masterpiece available for us listeners. There it is, conceived by a genius and performed by totally adequate orchestra and soloist! Thank You, God!

[@maureenbanks3702]

yesss!

[@aidan.adcock]

I'm at choir camp right now learning this piece for all state... any one else?

[@maureenbanks3702]

beautiful piece

[@claireleno9214]

I think I shall tap dance to the animated second movement, ‘Laudamus Te’. Poulenc, you are so playful.

[@nashrunner456]

Claire Leno I sang it in college in the mid 70’s when it was still relatively new. The piece’s appeal seems timeless. Enjoy. Well worth your effort.

[@brookeggleston9314]

@@nashrunner456 I sang it in high school, in '63 - back in the 50s, they started teaching us how to read music at the same time they taught us how to read words. The result was amazing! - and we danced our way through the Laudamus te, while we sang it! Our altos, who had been warned against sounding like sopranos who couldn't sing high enough, sounded like these altos!

[@michaeldunn1754]

I remember performing this back in 2004. It's frickin HARD. It always felt like the choral version of Holst's The Planets suite.

[@maureenbanks3702]

must've been fun performing tho! very hard to perform, huh? I'd love to hear your stories!

[@michaeldunn1754]

@@maureenbanks3702 Oh it was! I was part of the Western Washington University Concert Choir in 2003-2004, and it is without a doubt the most talented group of people I've ever had the pleasure of performing with. Most of them were music majors, as you might imagine, so they were just an incredible group. We were directed by Leslie Guelker-Cone, who retired just this last year, and let me tell you, she is one hell of a director! It's always fascinated with me how musicians learn their director. When I was an instrumentalist (I played the Trumpet, then the Tuba before switching to vocal music), we always knew where the directors baton would "bounce" on 1 - where it would be PHYSICALLY, I mean. Singing with Dr. GC was like that, but on steroids. She used her entire body to give us very nuanced instructions as to what sound she wanted. It was never explicitly discussed that, for instance, when her middle finger and thumb are pressed lightly together, and facing us, with wrists bent slightly upward (typically before a long pause or at the end of a piece), we were supposed to softly sustain the note, then ever so gently release it when her fingers parted, but we knew it all the same. Auditioning for that group also landed me a role in the opera studio's performance of Hin und Zuruck, which is a completely absurd opera - kind of a dark comedy, where the jealous husband shoots his wife, then enters the doctor and the orderly, and the orderly offers to the doctor ridiculous remedies like Tylenol, Ipecac, and Castor Oil for a gunshot wound! The things I remember most about that, from a performance standpoint, was loading the Soprano onto my shoulder like a sack of potatoes, then going from a kneeling position to a standing one, then walking UPstage with her still over my shoulder, all while sustaining a note which in my memory was quite low. It then all goes backwards (because the sage wants to put everything right), so we walk backwards, with the soprano again over my shoulder, to put her back down. I was terrified of hurting the soprano. For one, I worried that I would trip and drop her during the backwards walking part. For two, she had had her appendix removed just a few months prior, so I was worried that my shoulder was going to hurt her. She was such a sweetheart though, and she said to me "it's like a saddle, I'm good" (it's true, I do have really broad shoulders). I look back on that time both fondly and sadly: it was a wonderful musical experience, but one that I know I will never have again. My only regret is having not auditioned for the group before my last year, so that I could have (potentially) been part of it for longer (I was a far better vocalist than Tubist, and wish I had realized that sooner). One of these days, when my kids are a bit older, maybe I'll find a local group and get back into performance again. I really do miss it.

[@galecarruthers3443]

спасибо Александру! очень помогает!

[@esperanzalaborde4469]

Gran obra luminosa de piedad y sentimiento alegre

[@Luca-gj9xn]

Poulenc is really brilliant! My choir sang "Les Tisserands" in quarantine style. Write this in the search: you will surely like it. Corale Novarmonia - Les Tisserands (F. Poulenc)

[@dabedwards]

I find much French music to be instantly enjoyable at the first hearing. But it is not shallow, and bears repeated listening. German music, on the other hand, often needs more work to get into. This is wonderful stuff and impossible not to enjoy!

[@maureenbanks3702]

agreed

[@Ksamp313]

if there is any truth to the description of Poulenc as "part monk, part guttersnipe", it is in this piece. Love it!

[@charlesdavis7087]

It's vary subtle. Good on you. Listen... to these great artists... trying. CVD

[@JuMaAgJuMaAg]

cudowne

[@Diiplodokk]

słucham tego od listopada ciagle zakochanam

[@KaedeAkiyamaPartTimeCat]

RIP steven hawking

[@maddiemay446]

good luck to everyone here for all state (and to region 24!)

[@richardwilliams473]

At 2:53 we hear the most solid timpani stroke at the end .BRAVO

[@lovejilly7]

GO TENORS #TMEA1718

[@vincente9456]

I can't stand the ads interrupting the flow of music!!! If Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc, or any other composer knew this was going on they'd be having a conniption. This is a beautiful piece of music not to be degraded by Madison Avenue and the gluttony of KZbin trying to get you to buy ad free viewing. If KZbin really cared about musicians and the arts they'd stop this nonsense and you too should also speak up against it.

[@MegaCirse]

What's the use ? Besides, we discover so many beautiful sound things through their channel !

[@muanhauzel3795]

Who else is here after Reading Stephen Hawking book "Black Holes and Baby Universe" ?

[@xKha0tikFN]

Who's here for All State ???

[@silvino3259]

time to cry as a bass II

[@mackenzieshea4448]

Kate Bradley 25 minutes and 4 rounds later I will probably die

[@katersss]

I'm so excited! The music sounds beautiful :')

[@rileyduggan9322]

Silvino See you on the other side brother

[@conradthe2]

Kate Bradley literally only in choir for semester and my teacher pulled this up and I said "my summer"

[@dennistravers8392]

Love that Poulenc! Ego spirante, ergo cano.

[@rodrigofigueroa2129]

Perfecto

[@KizmetSirajli]

Thank you ~ Wonderful!

[@charlieaschenbach407]

No words

[@zoranmrdjenovic6080]

Ovo je sjajno. Aspen.

[@osushi1366]

この作品は大好きです！(^^♪

[@mayssabahou5682]

tro cool

[@leonardogiulianelli5462]

Stravinskij's Serenade in A in the beginning?

[@abadesquenleyner]

Decente!

[@maxcohen13]

I'm here because I like good music. (What the _hell_ is a "buzzfeed?!?!")

[@danielmkubacki]

WOW!

[@saulvelasco6667]

Steven Hawking :3

[@object5545]

Stephen*

[@gurudayalverma8422]

Everyone be happy wherever you are. I am Indian, I find this connecting, but lyrics are not there. Can anyone help like that how can I get the same vibe which you people get.

[@jiyujizai]

☺️🎶💚🌾

[@thezidp]

Stephen Hawking R.I.P.

[@PhrenicDemand]

I need to know who this soloist is her voice is incredible

[@heroldschopfer9231]

PhrenicDemand incredible horrible ?

[@mebert10]

The soloist is soprano Adele Addison.

[@brookeggleston9314]

@@heroldschopfer9231 Yes! Victoria de los Angeles sang it much better!!

[@stephenkolarac5305]

​@@brookeggleston9314😮 could you please provide details the recording you mentioned? I've never been able to find one.

[@xurxo1968]

Mid roll ads in the middle of a concert? :'(

[@maureenbanks3702]

total bummer ay? the ads are terrible.

[@adelbea]

I’m so freaking scared as freshmen for All State!! And Pre-Area is next week 😭😭😭

[@bryceknapp7148]

You'll do fine! If you've made it this far, then i know you are incredible!

[@ErnestoGomezSantan]

Is this López-Cobos version for certain?

[@SammySanFrancisco]

Wonderful! Heads up TopClassicalMusic the timings are wrong in the description. Thanks for posting!

[@africanhustler05]

SammySanFrancisco It's how long the movements are.

[@charlesdavis7087]

+Houston Black Some of my movements are longer than others. That doesn't make them better. Although Francis was one of the first truly open gay composers, length does have its place. Sent with love and laughter. CVD

[@africanhustler05]

+Charles Davis What are you talking about? I was just telling SammySanFrancisco that the timers in the description were how long the movements are...

[@bajanzhere]

I believe he thought (like I did originally) that the timings are where in the video the movement begins. That makes so much sense!

[@neriumoleander8188]

what is the artwork in the video?

[@rr7firefly]

As far as I can tell it is the apparition of Jesus to Sister Margaret Mary Alacoque on 27 December 1673, while she was praying before the Blessed Sacrament. The vision took place at Paray-le-Monial, in central France. In that very first apparition, Jesus revealed to the young nun His immense and great merciful love for all mankind. Thereafter, two other apparitions followed: one at the start of 1674 and the other on July 2 the same year, always while Sr. Margaret Mary was praying before the Blessed Sacrament.

[@dannyh_music]

Yo Francis, why movement III? Why V? Why is IV so short? Why isn't IV the whole thing? I'd sing it (or II (or I)) six times in a row, honestly. Update: I checked the description, and the three best movements are the three shortest. F R AN C IS ???? EXPLAIN

[@kristine6153]

Make This A Musical Umm, excuse you? Movement VI is definitely the best. I’m kidding, but movement VI really is my favorite, with movement I coming in second. The rest of the order depends on my mood; for example, I love how powerful and fast movement IV is, which I’m guessing is the reason why your favorites (IV, II, & I) are also the shortest: they’re fast and powerful. A recording posted by “SERIOSO SERIOSO” plays IV faster than any other I’ve heard, which just serves to make it that more exhilarating. That recording is also very precise, balanced, and passionate compared to others (*cough* this one). I also like movement V and III when I’m in a more sentimental mood, however I don’t enjoy when I can’t hear the choir because the soloist has a huge part and is too loud (which isn’t as much of a problem in the other recording because it sounds more balanced and I just find the soloist’s voice more pleasing). But most of the time I skip through III and V. Movement VI is my favorite because it’s so powerful at the beginning, and it keeps bringing up a nostalgic melody from movement I in the orchestra, and the slow ending is just so beautiful, especially the simple melody of “tu solus Altissimus” that gets repeated by the soloist and the choir. It makes me tear up listening to it; if only I could perform it, but alas, I didn’t make it to the TMEA All-State choir.

[@MuseDuCafe]

As if the work is somehow uneven in quality, lol.

[@brookeggleston9314]

IlIl IlIl I sang it in my 10th year, 1963 - 64. Of course, at that time, in the Schenectady NY school system, they started teaching us how to read music in grade 1. Alas, it is no longer so. Very sad, we made incredible music. We sounded like professionals. If you don't have to spend most of your time pounding out the notes, you can do incredible things. Btw, out of a choir of 240 (there were 3 choir periods per day), only 16 A's were assigned. I nearly choked on my wisdom teeth when I realized I had earned one! RIP, Dr Campbell; you were a very special man . . .

[@erickrodrigogarciadavalos2329]

I am here for Stephen Hawking of his book "black holes and little universes".

[@ReneGrothmann]

Who are the performers?

[@mgarraha]

Sounds like Suisse Romande with Sylvia Greenberg and Jesús López-Cobos, 1983 on Decca.

[@linds9154]

Anyone know who the soprano is here?

[@anubis6697]

Ah Young Hon

[@JLongTom]

+Arthur Finn ...finally he has arrived.

[@robertalobato1404]

SUS - CI - PE deprecationem nostram???? Ma stiamo scherzando????

[@ashwaganda]

Yep, that sounds so weird! 😆😆😆

[@markrubin9449]

I'll perform this for the fifth time in may, 2016. Hope I do justice to it this time.

[@bobsmeerfak]

+Mark Rubin Performing this in concert this weekend for the first time. Excited. Also doing the Durufle Requiem. Good luck on yours!

[@ze_rubenator]

+Bob Smeerfak Damn, you guys didn't exactly choose the easiest repertiore. Durufle with orchestra or just organ? And how did it go?

[@bobsmeerfak]

+Ze Rubenator I know, it wasn't an easy rehearsal cycle! Especially for the Poulenc, it took a while to settle in the voice -- it's mathematically brilliant but not necessarily very tuneful. But they went great! 160 voices, 40 piece orchestra. The Durufle was really satisfying.

[@ze_rubenator]

Bob Smeerfak I heard Pie Jesu for the first time during the dress rehearsal. It blew me away, one of the best solos ever. It's a remarkable piece of music that.

[@bobsmeerfak]

+Ze Rubenator Agreed. Devastating, and a mezzo's dream come true.

[@cesarvelasquez4084]

Lirycs pls..!!!!!

[@rawpotatofella9654]

Stephen Hawking sent me here

[@fififresa]

Why?

[@benjaparra5977]

why?

[@juliangernos]

R.I.P. Stephen Hawking. The most courageous man ever.

[@lovemusicyourway4901]

Here because of Stephen Hawking

[@valeriaflores1869]

I'm here because buzzfeed :3

[@catherinedigrazia5720]

What video?

[@andreamaldonado7788]

No soy religiosa ni nada, pero estoy inspirada por Steven Hawking y hago mi tarea de química :v por que me estrece de leer tanto y sin motivación

[@lapintelaurent7956]

La tempête "Gloria" s'abat sur les Pyrénées-Orientales... ne rêve pas, il n'y a PAS de hasard, jamais !