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Haydn - Stabat Mater | Brilliant Classics 93949

Haydn - Stabat Mater

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93949

Barcode: 5028421939490

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 24th August 2009

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Contents

Artists

Krisztina Laki (soprano)
Julia Hamari (contralto)
Claes H Ahnsjo (tenor)
Richard Anlauf (bass)
Stuttgart Chamber Chorus
Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Frieder Bernius

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Stabat Mater

Artists

Krisztina Laki (soprano)
Julia Hamari (contralto)
Claes H Ahnsjo (tenor)
Richard Anlauf (bass)
Stuttgart Chamber Chorus
Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra

Conductor

Frieder Bernius

About

Haydn’s Stabat Mater dates from 1767 and is among the earliest of his large-scale vocal works. Until 1766 he had been the deputy to Gregor Joseph Werner at Eisenstadt, so had gained a thorough experience in both the performance of lavish Mass settings (in which he himself would excel), and Grabenmusiken, or musical meditations on religious themes intended to stress the penitential character of the age. Such works were a feature especially of the period of Lent. The Stabat Mater became a great success. Copies of it can be found in libraries across Europe, and it was a regular feature of the ‘concerts spirituels’ in revolutionary Paris.

Haydn, then in the middle of his Sturm und Drang (‘Storm and Stress’) period, uses dramatic and daring harmonies and extreme chromaticisms to heighten the drama and the depictions of pain and anguish. A remarkable work for its time, it still has the ability to startle and move the listener in both its forward-looking harmonic style and emotional punch.

The Stabat Mater is essential to any CD collection of Haydn's works.

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