Dialogue

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Release Date
June 5, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur, Caroline Marcot, Olivier Messiaen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc
    • PERFORMER
      NFM Choir, Lionel Sow
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 05, 2026
    • UPC
      3701624512333
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1233
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Song of Cherubim

      Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    2. I. Dialogue

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    3. II. La voix du bien-aime

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    4. III. Le Songe

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    5. IV. Le roi Salomon

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    6. V. Le jardin clos

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    7. VI. La sulamite

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    8. VII. Epithalame

      Composer: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    9. Stabat Mater

      Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    10. Nigra sum

      Composer: Caroline Marcot

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    11. O gloriosa virginum

      Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    12. Salve regina, FP 110

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    13. Polish Requiem: Agnus Dei

      Composer: Krzysztof Penderecki

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow

    14. O sacrum convivium!

      Composer: Olivier Messiaen

      Ensemble: National Forum of Music Choir

      Conductor: Lionel Sow


The NFM Choir from Wroclaw juxtaposes Penderecki and French composers, creating a dialogue between Polish and French music of the 20th century, between the singers from Wroclaw, where the choir is based, and Frenchman Lionel Sow, it's conductor since 2021. The program opens with Krzysztof Penderecki's Le Chant des chérubins, a piece composed in 1986 based on a text from the Orthodox liturgy. This is followed by a composition by French composer Yves Daniel-Lesur, a twelve-part Cantique des Cantiques composed in 1953. In 1962, Penderecki completed a Stabat Mater of a purely religious nature, a declaration of opposition to the communist system and it's visceral atheism, but also to Western avant-garde circles, which were equally uninterested in the sacred. Fast forward to the 2000s with Nigra sum by composer and mezzo-soprano Caroline Marçot, who is very interested in Renaissance music. If there is one thing that Poulenc's Salve Regina, composed in 1941, and Penderecki's Agnus Dei, written forty years later, have in common, it is simplicity and a form of contemplation that can also be found in Olivier Messiaen's O sacrum convivium, composed in 1937.