4010072774606

French Sacred Music For Girls' Choir And Organ

Cantus Juvenum Karlsruhe; Carsten Wiebusch; Peter Gortner

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Format: CD

Cat No: CHR77460

Release Date:  04 February 2022

Label:  Christophorus

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  4010072774606

Genres:  Classical  Choral  

  • Description

    Sacred music for girls' (women's) choir with organ can almost only be found in France in the period of late Romanticism and early Modernism.

    This repertoire, influenced by French Catholicism, is presented by the girls' choir of the Cantus Juvenus singing school in Karlsruhe under the direction of Peter Gortner with wonderful lightness and beauty of sound.



    The centrepiece is the "Messe basse", a youth work by Gabriel Faure, whose simple clarity makes it easy to imagine in a French nunnery. A series of five other motets by Faure complement the mass.



    The most significant work on the recording is the "Litanies a la Vierge Noire", which Francis Poulenc wrote during a stay in the face of the Black Madonna figure of Rocamadour, to whose convent he had withdrawn in 1936 during a serious crisis.



    Furthermore, motets by Claude Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Maurice Durufle and Jean Langlais can be heard.



    The girls' choir is accompanied by Carsten Wiebusch on the great Klais organ of the Christuskirche in Karlsruhe, who complements the programme with works for solo organ by Messiaen, Alain and Dupre.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Gabriel Faure: Messe Basse
      • 2. Jean Langlais: Missa In Simplicitate
      • 3. Olivier Messiaen: Livre Du Saint-Sacrement
      • 4. Gabriel Faure: Messe Basse
      • 7. Francis Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmelites
      • 9. Jehan Alain: Litanies
      • 10. Lili Boulanger: Pie Jesu
      • 11. Marcel Dupre: Jesus Rencontre Sa Mere
      • 12. Marcel Durufle: Quatre Motets, Op. 10
      • 17. Claude Debussy: Les Angelus
      • 18. Claude Debussy: Preludes Pour Piano
      • 19. Gabriel Faure: Vocalise-Etude
      • 20. Gabriel Faure: Cantique De Jean Racine Op. 11