FULL Les deux Stabats (Pergolesi & Haydn) Budapest 2024 Emőke Baráth, Nagy Bernadett, Márton Komáromi, Nikolay Borchev
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Les deux Stabats - Stabat Mater
- Composer: Pergolesi, Haydn
- Libretto: traditional
- Venue & Opera Company: Béla Bartók National Concert Hall, müpa, Budapest, Hungary
- Recorded: March 28, 2024
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Emőke Baráth, Nagy Bernadett, Márton Komáromi, Nikolay Borchev
- Conductor: György Vashegyi
- Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
- Chorus: National Choir
- Chorus Master: Csaba Somos
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: müpa
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, othersubs
- Video Recording from: bilibili FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi completed Stabat Matere, one of the most important church music works of the 18th century, in 1736, at the age of twenty-six, just a few weeks before his untimely death. Its popularity is indicated by the countless revisions made of the composition by a number of other authors (including Bach around 1745). In the 1790s, in Vienna, Mozart’s former student, Joseph von Eybler, transcribed the score, originally written only for soprano and alto soloists and strings, into four parts – i.e. a four-singer soloist and a four-part choir – and at the same time significantly increased the number of the participating orchestra. Further changes to the orchestration were made by Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried, and a few decades later by Otto Nicolai. This is how the extraordinary version was born, which can be heard for the second time in Hungary at our performance tonight.
Our concert is entitled “Les deux Stabats” (“The Two Stabats”): in the 1780s, this was how the Parisian church concerts were advertised, at which Pergolesi’s and Haydn’s Stabat Materei were heard consecutively, on the same evening. The popularity of these concerts at the time was quite extraordinary, and although the directors did their best to find more “contemporary” Stabat Maters that could be included in this program, only Haydn’s work was able to maintain its popularity for a long time, alongside the brilliant Pergolesi opus, born forty-one years before him. . With today’s program, we want to recall the memory and atmosphere of these Parisian concerts of the last decade before the French Revolution in the Béla Bartók National Concert Hall