About This Song
About "Stabat Mater, FP 148: V. Quis est homo (Live)" by London Philharmonic Orchestra
Poulenc sets the Stabat Mater's question—'Who is the man who would not weep?'—to music of piercing, almost unbearable clarity. The London Philharmonic sustains a hush around the soloist, grief rendered as luminous architecture. It is sorrow so precise it feels like grace.