Hägersten Motet Choir

Works by Poulenc & Bruckner

The Hägersten Motet Choir directed by Ingemar Månsson presents works by Francis Poulenc and Anton Bruckner.

The Hägersten Motet Choir was tied to The Church of Revelation in Hägersten , Stockholm, where the choir gave most of its concerts. It also made many guest performances in churches throughout Sweden and abroad, and cooperated with numerous symphony orchestras. The choir was founded in 1965 and made its last performance in 1995.

Poulenc’s Un soir de neige stems from the last Christmas of war in 1944, and is based on poems by Paul Eluard. It is a meditation over the snow, the chilliness and the exposed loneliness. The Four Christmas Motets were composed in the beginning of the 1950s.

Bruckner’s Locus Iste and the eccentric mass No. 2 in E minor were written for the new votive chapel of the Cathedral of Linz. The mass was premièred in Sweden by the Hägersten Motet Choir in 1970. Locus Iste became a kind of farewell to the city of Linz, which Bruckner left for Vienna in 1896.

Read more
Show playlist
    • Un soir de neige Music: Francis Poulenc
      • 1.
        Des grandes cuillers de neige
        1'31
      • 2.
        La bonne niege
        2'15
      • 3.
        Bois meurtri
        2'19
      • 4.
        La nuit le froid la solitude
        1'02
    • Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël Music: Francis Poulenc
      • 5.
        O magnum mysterium
        3'36
      • 6.
        Quem vidistis pastores dicite
        2'13
      • 7.
        Videntes stellam
        3'23
      • 8.
        Hodie Christus natus est
        1'57
    • Locus iste Music: Anton Bruckner
      • 9.
        Locus iste
        3'07
    • Ave Maria Music: Anton Bruckner
      • 10.
        Ave Maria
        4'03
    • Mass No. 2 in E minor Music: Anton Bruckner
      • 11.
        Kyrie
        7'18
      • 12.
        Gloria
        7'41
      • 13.
        Credo
        9'39
      • 14.
        Sanctus
        3'22
      • 15.
        Benedictus
        7'03
      • 16.
        Agnus Dei
        6'50
  • Total playtime 68'35

Compact Disc // CAP 21420 // Classical // Releasedate: 1 January, 1992