FULL STABAT MATER (Szymanowski) Bratislava 2016 Simona Houda-Šaturová, Stella Grigorian, Tomáš Šelc
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Stabat Mater
- Composer: Szymanowski Karol
- Libretto: Jozef Janowski's Polish translation of the Marian hymn
- Venue & Opera Company: Concert Hall of the Slovak Philharmonic, Bratislava, Slovakia
- Recorded: January 22, 2016
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Simona Houda-Šaturová, Stella Grigorian, Tomáš Šelc
- Conductor: Fabrizio Ventura
- Orchestra: Slovak Philharmonic
- Chorus: Slovak Philharmonic Choir
- Chorus Master: Jozef Chabroň
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: filharmonia.sk
- Date Published: 2016
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: filharmonia.sk FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Karol Szymanowski’s Stała matka bolejąca (Stabat mater dolorosa), Op. 53, was composed in 1925 and 1926. Scored for soprano, alto and baritone soloists, SATB choir and orchestra, it sets Jozef Janowski’s Polish translation of the Marian hymn in six movements. His first composition to a liturgical text, it is characteristic of his late period in being partly based on Polish melodies and rhythms; a stay in the Tatras mountains, at Zakopane, in 1922 had led him to describe Polish folk music as “enlivening [in] its proximity to Nature, [in] its force, [in] its directness of feeling, [in] its undisturbed racial purity.” Indeed, Szymanowski’s use of Polish musical elements together with the Polish translation here is unique.
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