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Haydn: Seven Last Words

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Details

Composer
HAYDN, JOSEPH
Artist
Guido Pellizzari
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Apr 03, 2020
Catalog #
BRI95889
UPC
5028421958897

About

In the last few decades, Haydn's response to Passiontide has become a popular fixture in churches across the globe, most frequently heard in the arrangement he made for string quartet. Commissioned to supply music for chamber orchestra to accompany the Good Friday service at the cathedral in Cadiz on Good Friday 1786, he quickly made the quartet arrangement, doubtless with a lucrative market in mind. The letters written by Haydn to his publisher Artaria between February and June 1787 show that the arrangements for both quartet and for keyboard had their genesis during the preparation of the original orchestral version for publication. The keyboard transcription was not undertaken by Haydn himself, but he approved it for publication, and all three versions were issued by Artaria during the summer of 1787. For years the keyboard version was considered an inferior, second-hand cousin to the quartet, yet there is increasing recognition of both the keyboard version's authenticity and also it's expressive potential, in the hands of a sympathetic artist. In his autobiography, Abbé Stadler (1748-1833) relates that he was with Haydn when the commission arrived from Cadiz. 'He also asked me what I thought of it all. I answered that it seemed to me advisable to fit over the words an appropriate melody and then to have this performed only by instruments, in which art he was in any case a master.' Thus the headings of each movement - 'Pater dimitte illis' (Father, forgive them) and so on - fit the melodies like songs without words.

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. 1 Introduction: Maestoso ed adagio 06:09
    Track
    1
    Title
    Introduction: Maestoso ed adagio
    Duration
    06:09
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  2. 2 Sonata 1: Pater, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt, quid faciunt 06:00
    Track
    2
    Title
    Sonata 1: Pater, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt, quid faciunt
    Duration
    06:00
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  3. 3 Sonata 2: Amen dico tibi: Hodie mecum eris in paradiso 08:04
    Track
    3
    Title
    Sonata 2: Amen dico tibi: Hodie mecum eris in paradiso
    Duration
    08:04
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  4. 4 Sonata 3: Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua! 08:57
    Track
    4
    Title
    Sonata 3: Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua!
    Duration
    08:57
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  5. 5 Sonata 4: Deus meus, Deus meus ut quid dereliquisti me 07:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    Sonata 4: Deus meus, Deus meus ut quid dereliquisti me
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  6. 6 Sonata 5: Sitio 09:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    Sonata 5: Sitio
    Duration
    09:19
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  7. 7 Sonata 6: Consummatum est! 07:13
    Track
    7
    Title
    Sonata 6: Consummatum est!
    Duration
    07:13
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  8. 8 Sonata 7: Pater! In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum 07:31
    Track
    8
    Title
    Sonata 7: Pater! In manus tuas commendo spiritum meum
    Duration
    07:31
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari
  9. 9 Il terremoto 02:00
    Track
    9
    Title
    Il terremoto
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Franz Joseph Haydn
    Performer
    Guido Pellizzari