Dear friends, today Holy Saturday, a week very unpleasant in regards to the ongoing impact Weather the weather, I want to leave a work simply wonderful Dvorak. A work that is well suited to understand the spirit of these last days that we celebrate Easter and to help calm the spirit of many people for their musical beauty and enormous spiritual content.
The prayer of the Stabat Mater is attributed to various writers, including Innocent III, St. Bonaventure and the Franciscan Jacopone da Todi (most likely) all of the thirteenth century authors and relates to the suffering of Mary during the crucifixion of Jesus, expressing compassion the suffering of both people and key figures in our history.
The Stabat is a sequence of the Catholic liturgy approved as such in 1727 and the few that remain in the Catholic corpus currently associated with the feast of the Sorrows of Mary (the sequences that remain are for Easter, Pentecost and Corpus and in the specific case of the Dies Irae Requiem). At the same time is a small "anomaly liturgical "it has two parties in the saints for celebration (although the Stabat is more associated with the feast of Easter to September 15, The Seven Sorrows).
is one of the literary texts that more music has been adapted, by authors from different periods, schools, styles and musical visions have passed the Stabat palabas to be translated into musical notes, each and every one of them a particular beauty (Pergolesi, Palestrina, Vivaldi, Haydn, Rossini, Poulenc, etc.).
Dvorák began composing his Stabat Mater at 35 years of age in the spring of 1876. However, several tragic events in the Czech composer's family were the ones who gave birth, or rather, foundations of the emotional basis of his work. In September 1875, Dvorak's daughter died, Josefa, two days after birth. Full of sadness and longing for Josefa, Dvorak captures her pain in musical notes. In May of 1876 interrupted the work devoted to other projects. A year later, in August 1877, his daughter Ruzena, eleven months old, was poisoned with phosphorus match and barely a month later, on September 8, 1877, birthday of composer, dies of smallpox, the third son Dvorak, Otik, three years. All these tragic events are without doubt in the back of the spirit of Dvorak's work to which we must add (in spite of all the past by the composer) his deep love for God. The overall composition extends from the February 19, 1876 until November 13, 1877 that was completed the orchestration of it.
The play was performed for the first time in Prague on December 23, 1880 conducted by Adolf Cech having great success and soon after being represented by Janacek in Brno and later in cities such as London and Budapest.
Structure of the Work
- Choir Quartet. Andante con moto (Stabat Mater Dolorosa)
- Quartet. Andante sostenuto (Quis est homo, qui non Fleret)
- Coro. Andante con moto (Eia Mater, fons amoris)
- only, Coro, Bajo. Largo (Fac ut cor meum ardeat)
- Coro. Andante con moto, quasi Allegretto (Tui nati vulnerti)
- Content only, Coro. Andante con moto (Fac me vere tecum flere)
- Coro. Largo (Virgo virginum praeclara)
- Duo. Larghetto (Fac ut portem Christi mortem)
- Schools. Andante maestoso (Inflammatus et accensus)
- Quartet, Choir. Andante Con Moto (Quando morietur corpus)
The version that I leave up to the unique approach of the Czech Republic Vaclav Smetacek teacher leads a unique, brilliant, marvelous and rich in nuances and a Czech Philharmonic soloists, renowned not so generally but exceptionally rich in musical expression, beauty of timbre and vocal ability. The exceptional Philharmonic Choir of Prague is absolutely wonderful, beautiful and moving.
The set of all give us a Stabat Mater simply wonderful, moving as few rich nuances, perfectly synchronized in form and in his soul with the depth of the words of the text. The music is a reflection of the feeling that comes from the words. The instruments chosen by Dvorak in each of the parties so prodigious nuanced phrases and are able to "speak" the same as them. Pain, grief, resignation, etc.. are faithfully reflected in the music of Dvorak. A deep music like few others, capable of reaching most closely guarded feelings. The mood swings are really well nuanced, a dramatic way through the instrumentation and not least through the game beautifully with choral groups, male and female and soloists. A work from the pain and suffering that goes end to the joy of the Resurrection and confidence in eternal life. A marvel of composition and a work of performance art. Simply master each and every one of the artists involved in its recreation.
is very beautiful and highly emotive music to follow the letter of the Stabat to perceive the wonderful harmony between them and accentuate the unique way of associating moods and feelings so disparate that appear throughout the work with a music perfectly suited to them.
I leave two points in parallel, the original Latin and a modern translation but I strongly recommend that you read the exceptionally rich and proud version of Lope de Vega (that's called soul and translate knowledge) to get his words capture the depth of the message.
Also I recommend reading this post of exceptional Ear friend Fine Blog:
The CD is accompanied by another little jewel of music. The beautiful Serenade for Strings Dvorak. The interpretation is provided by the exceptional master on this occasion Kubelik leads the English Chamber Orchestra, offering a delicate approach of the book, beautiful in its global approach in its tempi, the wealth of sounds obtained in the range of the rings and the exceptional smoothness of the strings.
The Serenade was premiered in Prague in December 1876 also directed by Adolf Cech. A small work deep poetic evocation of wonderful melodic invention, incredibly evocative of intimacy, a work to enjoy and enjoy a true hymn to the sensitivity and musical and melodic beauty. Exceptionally beautiful, is one of those "songs" that put you in the heart forever and also you can not stop humming when you listen.
Vaclav Smetacek *
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra *
Prague Philharmonic Choir (Director, Josef Veselka) *
Soloists: Woytowicz Stefania, soprano, Vera Soukupova, contralto, Ivo Zidek, tenor; Kim Borg, under *
Prague, 15 to December 20, 1961, Rudolfinum * Rafael Kubelik
Chamber Orchestra English
London, 28 to 30 May 1969
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