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In 1941, midway between the Lenten motets and Figure humaine, Poulenc composed Salve regina. It has a sustained calm, never deviates from a simple four-part texture, and perhaps most strikingly, in an understated work, uses up the final nineteen bars intoning only the words ‘dulcis Virgo Maria’—dans le style d’une complainte (an expression of grief, and perhaps still Poulenc’s grief at the Rocamadour shrine for his friend Ferroud?).

from notes by Meurig Bowen © 2008

Recording details: September 1993
Westminster Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Release date: March 1994
Total duration: 4 minutes 47 seconds

Salve regina
composer
1941
author of text
Antiphon to the Virgin Mary from Trinity until Advent
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Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

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Cover of 'Poulenc: Gloria' (CDA67623)
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