ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra - Stabat Mater / Dies Irae - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Despite their different musical languages, all works by the Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki presented on this album have in common the inherent character of a lament Szymanowski's Stabat mater, which was completed in 1926 and is based on a Polish translation of the Latin medieval poem, is considered as one of the most important compositions of the 20th century. Penderecki's three-part oratorio Dies Irae was commissioned for a commemoration day in remembrance of the murder victims at the former concentration camp in Auschwitz, and hence carries the epithet InchAuschwitz OratoriumInch. The album closes with a Threnos for 52 string instruments dedicated to the Victims of Hiroshima. The final haunting bars of this composition present a tutti cluster, starting in a triple forte and fading out to quadruple piano. Album Tracks 1. Stabat Mater, Op. 53~I. Stala matka bolejaca / Stabat mater dolorosa 2. Stabat Mater, Op. 53~II. I któz widzial tak cierpiaca / Quis est homo qui non fleret 3. Stabat Mater, Op. 53~III. O Matko, zródlo wszechmilosci / O, eia mater, fons amoris 4. Stabat Mater, Op. 53~IV. Spraw, niech placze z Toba razem / Fac me tecum pie flere 5. Stabat Mater, Op. 53~V. Panno slodka, racz mozolem / Virgo virginum praeclara 6. Stabat Mater, Op. 53~VI. Chrystus niech mi bedzie grodem / Christe, cum sit hinc exire 7. Dies irae~I. Lamentatio 8. Dies irae~II. Apocalypsis 9. Dies irae~III. Apotheosis 10. Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima