Dvorak - Complete Sacred Choral Music | Brilliant Classics 95609

Dvorak - Complete Sacred Choral Music

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 95609

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 7

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 16th March 2018

Contents

Artists

Christiane Libor (soprano)
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Ewa Biegas (soprano)
Livia Aghova (soprano)
Marietta Simpson (mezzo‐soprano)
Marina Rodriquez‐Cusi (mezzo‐soprano)
Michelle Breedt (alto)
Ewa Wolak (alto)
Daniel Kirch (tenor)
John Aler (tenor)
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Javier Tome (tenor)
Jose Antonio Lopez (baritone)
Ding Gao (baritone)
Janusz Monarcha (bass)
Ludek Vele (bass)
Prager Kammerchor
WDR Rundfunkchor Koln
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir
The Washington Chorus & Orchestra
Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra
Orfeon Pamplones

Conductors

Antoni Wit
Robert Shafer
Gerd Albrecht

Works

Dvorak, Antonin

Mass in D major, op.86, B175
Psalm 149, op.79
Requiem, op.89
Saint Ludmila, op.71
Stabat Mater, op.58
Te Deum, op.103

Artists

Christiane Libor (soprano)
Christine Brewer (soprano)
Ewa Biegas (soprano)
Livia Aghova (soprano)
Marietta Simpson (mezzo‐soprano)
Marina Rodriquez‐Cusi (mezzo‐soprano)
Michelle Breedt (alto)
Ewa Wolak (alto)
Daniel Kirch (tenor)
John Aler (tenor)
Piotr Beczala (tenor)
Javier Tome (tenor)
Jose Antonio Lopez (baritone)
Ding Gao (baritone)
Janusz Monarcha (bass)
Ludek Vele (bass)
Prager Kammerchor
WDR Rundfunkchor Koln
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir
The Washington Chorus & Orchestra
Orquesta Sinfonica de Navarra
Orfeon Pamplones

Conductors

Antoni Wit
Robert Shafer
Gerd Albrecht

About

Unrivalled in the catalogue, this box brings together all the works in a genre for which Dvořák has been undervalued. The composer was himself a lifelong Catholic, a man of uncomplicated faith and not prey to spiritual torments in the manner of his contemporary Bruckner.

Dvořák wrote religious music throughout his career, though his first substantial contribution was the Stabat mater of 1876‐7. This large‐scale setting burns with a restrained pathos likely intensified during the period of composition by the deaths of his children. One of the most personal of all his major works, the Stabat mater sets the tone for the equally large‐scale St Ludmila oratorio of 1886 and the Requiem of 1890: not for Dvořák the hellfire and damnation so vividly evoked by Berlioz and Verdi in their settings of the text: sorrow and consolation are the Requiem’s key-signatures, just as devout belief infuses the Czech legend of St Ludmila.

The Mass in D was originally composed in 1887 with organ accompaniment, but the carefully integrated nature of his setting is in the spirit of the late Masses by Haydn and Schubert, as he recognised by orchestrating it a few years later. His final sacred work is the elementally exuberant Te Deum of 1892, which looks back in spirit to his robust and festive setting of Psalm 149.

The recordings in this box are all modern, made during the last 20 years by ensembles in Cologne, Navarra, Warsaw and Washington, and masterminded by noted choral conductors including Gerd Albrecht (St Ludmila), Robert Shafer (Stabat mater, Psalm 149) and Antoni Wit (Requiem, Mass in D, Te Deum). An extended essay on Dvořák’s sacred output is printed within the booklet, and sung texts are available at www.brilliantclassics.com.

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