There are only a few composers whose works can't only be called "magnificent", "inspired" or "heavenly"...oh, yes, there is almost all of Rachmaninoff, the "Four Last Songs" of Richard Strauss, sung by the brilliant Renee Fleming, Cristoph Eschenbach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra (you'll need a diaper for THAT one, for sure--it should be illegal, it is so hedonstic, memorable...).
But what I will search for until the day I die is Regine Crespin singing the Poulenc Gloria with the Robert Shaw Chorale...I first heard this in the seventies, on vinyl (remember "vinyl"?), and it made me the ultimate Poulenc fan. Please, please, if anyone has any info on any recording of this piece...let me know, please--I guess I'd even take an old vinly copy, but if I could only find it on cd...hell, I'd take a cassete copy, if I had to. This is one of those pieces that, tragically (yeah, I'm dramatic, but then, so was Francis Poulenc) has not been transferred to disc. PLEASE, music fans, help me with this. I will kiss your feet (if they don't stink)if you can give me some information on this.
Thank you,
Tom Murphy
Seattle, 206-860-3534
But what I will search for until the day I die is Regine Crespin singing the Poulenc Gloria with the Robert Shaw Chorale...I first heard this in the seventies, on vinyl (remember "vinyl"?), and it made me the ultimate Poulenc fan. Please, please, if anyone has any info on any recording of this piece...let me know, please--I guess I'd even take an old vinly copy, but if I could only find it on cd...hell, I'd take a cassete copy, if I had to. This is one of those pieces that, tragically (yeah, I'm dramatic, but then, so was Francis Poulenc) has not been transferred to disc. PLEASE, music fans, help me with this. I will kiss your feet (if they don't stink)if you can give me some information on this.
Thank you,
Tom Murphy
Seattle, 206-860-3534