Fauré and Poulenc

[sawyl]

Not particularly convinced by Fauré`s Shylock suite in tonight's prom, but I suppose it fits this year's Shakespearean theme. Poulenc's Stabat Mater was more to my taste and the sound was suitable beautiful, but the tempi seemed a little bit on the slow side — the quando corpus was a solid minute longer than most people take it — but the performers were good enough to keep it together.