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Priez pour paix, FP95

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Priez pour paix, douce Vierge Marie

composer

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

1938

author of text

Charles Duc d'Orléans (1394-1465)

Recordings

Poulenc: The Complete Songs

Graham Johnson (piano)

CDA68021/4 4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs To be issued soon September 2013 Release

Poulenc: Voyage à Paris

Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

MP3 £5.99FLAC £5.99ALAC £5.99Buy by post £6.99 CDH55366 Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

Details

Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Track 30 on CDA68021/4 CD4 [2'42] 4CDs for the price of 3 — 4CDs To be issued soon September 2013 Release

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Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

Track 26 on CDH55366 [2'35] Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Priez pour paix, FP95

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Priez pour paix was written in the dark days of the Munich crisis. The words are by Charles, duc d’Orléans (1394–1465). Poulenc wrote: ‘I tried to give here a feeling of fervour and above all of humility (for me the most beautiful quality of prayer). It is a prayer for a country church.’ This is not only religious music; in a subtle way it strives to achieve a medieval hieratic atmosphere appropriate to the poet.

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