The new Kreuzkantor Martin Lehmann and his Dresdner Kreuzchor present their new recording

of Francis Poulenc's "Gloria" for soprano, mixed choir and orchestra (FP 177). Combining it with

the liturgically corresponding "Mass" for soloists, choir and orchestra in A flat major (D 678) by

Franz Schubert. They performed the two works in the acoustically magnificent Kulturpalast Dresden

with a first-class cast of soloist Elsa Benoit, Irike Malotta, Patrick Grahl and Klaus Hager. This

album is continuing the Dresden Philarmonic Orchestra and Kreuzchor's long history of recordings and artistic collaboration on Berlin Classics.