Les Voix Française

We begin this French banquet with the exceptional music of 20th-Century French composer Lili Boulanger. Works will include the triumphant Hymne au Soleil, the exotic and highly dramatic Vieille prière bouddhique, and the touching, poetic Sous Bois. Then we turn to Francis Poulenc’s Stabat Mater, one of the great masterpieces of French choral music, in league with the Requiems of Duruflé and Fauré. The work is alternately sumptuous and boldly dra...