Le Moine et le Voyou

The program for this 5th album of Métaboles brings together the secular and explosive universe of Bernard Cavanna's Mass on a Ordinary Day and works for a cappella choir by Francis Poulenc: Un Soir de Neige on texts by Eluard, the Four Motets for a time of penance and Exultate Deo, motet for solemn feasts.
These works share with Bernard Cavanna's mass a common intensity and humanity. Monk and thug, two adjectives that Francis Poulenc had attributed to himself, and which could just as easily describe the world of Bernard Cavanna...