Polina Pastirchak - Dvorak: Stabat Mater, Op. 58 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

From an artistic point of view, Dvorak reacted with this work to the Stabat Mater by the German church musician and priest Franz Xaver Witt, the founder of the Cecilia Society, which was performed in Prague in 1875. This work, scored for only choir and organ, was a pontifically approved version of contemporary church music. In the nineteenth century, the Vatican generally supported a return to the sober a cappella style of Palestrina while being critical of orchestral sacred works. Dvorak, at the time organist at the Prague church of St. Adalbert, did not agree with this view. He had a different idea of a Catholic choral work, and his Stabat Mater is more in line with Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonic conception of the Missa solemnis Album Tracks 1. Stabat Mater op. 58~Stabat Mater dolorosa 2. Stabat Mater op. 58~Quis est homo 3. Stabat Mater op. 58~Eja, Mater, fons amoris 4. Stabat Mater op. 58~Fac, ut ardeat cor meum 5. Stabat Mater op. 58~Tui nati vulnerati 6. Stabat Mater op. 58~Fac me vere tecum flere 7. Stabat Mater op. 58~Virgo virginum praeclara 8. Stabat Mater op. 58~Fac, ut portem Christi mortem 9. Stabat Mater op. 58~Inflammatus et accensus 10. Stabat Mater op. 58~Quando corpus morietur