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Monday, September 24, 2018

Antonín Dvořák - Stabat Mater (Mariss Jansons)


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Composer: Antonín Dvořák
  • Stabat mater, Op. 58

Erin Wall, soprano
Mikoho Fujimura, mezzo-soprano
Christian Elsner, tenor
Liang Li, bass

Bavarian Radio Chorus & Symphony Orchestra
Mariss Jansons, conductor

Date: 2015
Label: BR Klassik


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Review

Although public performances of Dvořák’s Stabat mater are still comparatively rare, the discerning record-buyer is now thoroughly spoilt for choice with an impressive array of outstanding interpretations: my top choice in July 2013 was Philippe Herreweghe’s recording. Dvořák was, to quote Isaiah, ‘a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief’. He completed the work in autumn 1877, when he was in his mid-thirties, following the deaths of his daughters Josefa and Růžena and his son Otakar. In the event, only three of the Dvořáks’ nine children survived into adulthood.

The first movement (of 10) is the most substantial and is cast in a tear-laden, desolate B minor. Under Jansons, the Bavarian Radio Chorus are in fine voice, crisp of enunciation and excellently balanced against the large orchestra. They are joined by a distinguished solo quartet. Erin Wall and Christian Elsner sing with a passionate intensity, alert to every nuance of this glorious score. Elsner is particularly lustrous in the Brahmsian ‘Fac me vere tecum flere’. Mihoko Fujimura has a tendency to be breathy and wide of vibrato; she is less expressive than Michaela Selinger (for Herreweghe), who is lighter and smoother. Liang Li has a hefty, resolute tone which contrasts well with the ethereal upper voices of the chorus.

As if (perhaps) to compensate for the preponderance of slow music, Jansons takes the ‘Tui nati vulnerati’movement with a hasty, rather heavy-handed swing, clocking in at less than four minutes, compared to Herreweghe’s more considered 4'35". From this movement onwards, however, the mood turns towards the hope inherent in the Resurrection, with Jansons cranking up the dramatic impetus for an exhilarating final Amen. But though this live performance is excellent in all respects (including a remarkably silent audience), Herreweghe’s Flemish forces still have the edge.

-- Malcolm Riley, Gramophone

More reviews:
MusicWeb International  RECORDING OF THE MONTH
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2016/May/Dvorak_stabat_900142.htm
https://www.allmusic.com/album/dvor%C3%A1k-stabat-mater-mw0002899993

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Antonín Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904) was a Czech composer. He was the second Czech composer to achieve worldwide recognition, after Bedřich Smetana. Following Smetana's nationalist example, many of Dvořák's works show the influence of Czech folk music, such as his  two sets of Slavonic Dances, the Symphonic Variations, and the overwhelming majority of his songs. Dvořák wrote in a variety of forms: nine symphonies, ten operas, three concertos, several symphonic poems, serenades for string orchestra and wind ensemble, more than 40 works of chamber music, and piano music.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%C3%ADn_Dvo%C5%99%C3%A1k

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Mariss Jansons (born 14 January 1943 in Riga, Latvia) is a Latvian conductor. His father Arvīds Jansons was assistant to Evgeny Mravinsky at the Leningrad Philharmonic. Jansons studied piano and conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory, and continued his training in Vienna with Hans Swarowsky and in Salzburg with Herbert von Karajan. He was music director of Oslo Philharmonic (1979-2000), Pittsburgh Symphony (1997-2004) and Royal Concertgebouw (2002-2015). Since 2003, Jansons has been serving as music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony (his contract was extended through 2021).

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