Stabat Mater

Album by Joseph Haydn & Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne & Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne & Michel Corboz

Stabat Mater is a sacred choral composition by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, composed in 1767. The work sets the medieval Latin devotional text for soloists, choir and orchestra in a Classical idiom, combining expressive melodic writing, contrapuntal passages and varied tempi, and represents an early instance of Haydn's engagement with large-scale sacred vocal forms that informed his later masses and oratorio work.
First released: 1992

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa (largo)
    6:24
  2. 2.
    Stabat Mater: II. O quam tristis (larghetto)
    6:44
  3. 3.
    Stabat Mater: III. Quis est homo (lento)
    1:45
  4. 4.
    Stabat Mater: IV. Quis non posset (moderato)
    5:53
  5. 5.
    Stabat Mater: V. Pro peccatis suae gentis (allegro ma non troppo)
    2:24
  6. 6.
    Stabat Mater: VI. Vidit suum (lento e maestoso)
    5:18
  7. 7.
    Stabat Mater: VII. Eia Mater (allegretto)
    2:46
  8. 8.
    Stabat Mater: VIII. Sancta Mater (larghetto)
    6:54
  9. 9.
    Stabat Mater: IX. Fac me vere (lagrimoso)
    5:34
  10. 10.
    Stabat Mater: X. Virgo virginum praeclara (andante)
    6:37
  11. 11.
    Stabat Mater: XI. Flammis orci ne succendar (presto)
    2:04
  12. 12.
    Stabat Mater: XII. Fac me cruce (moderato)
    2:43
  13. 13.
    Stabat Mater: XIII. Quando corpus (largo assai) / Paradisi gloria
    4:10

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