Haydn - The Seven Last Words; Sanchez-Verdu - Sheba
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Label: C-AVI
Cat No: AVI8553518
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 6th January 2023
Contents
Artists
Capella AugustinaConductor
Andreas SperingWorks
The Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross, op.51Sheba
Artists
Capella AugustinaConductor
Andreas SperingAbout
'In 2018, we commissioned a piece from Spanish composer José María Sánchez-Verdú, one of whose works I had the privilege of premiering a while back: a mesmerizing, fantastically well-orchestrated work. Born in Andalusia, Sánchez-Verdú chose to enact a new musical encounter with Haydn's work Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze ("The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross"). Indeed, as is well known, Haydn wrote Die sieben letzten Worte for a passion liturgy held on Good Friday in the Spanish port town of Cadiz. Sánchez-Verdú has written Sheba (the Hebrew word for "seven") as a series of interludes to be inserted between the movements of Haydn's original work. Each of Haydn's seven "sonatas" is followed by a 2-to-3-minute movement that serves as a commentary, an exegesis, a prolongation, or an antithesis to what has been previously heard. Sánchez-Verdú's seventh and final movement leads without pause into the "earthquake" music that closes Die sieben letzten Worte. Sánchez-Verdú occasionally takes an isolated chord or timbre from Die sieben letzten Worte as a point of departure; in other cases, he has found inspiration in one of Haydn's musical impulses or gestures. In the process of composing Sheba, the period instruments served as a challenge and as a stimulus.' - Andreas Spering
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