Dvorak: Requiem & Rossini: Stabat Mater

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Erzsébet Komlóssy (contralto), Robert Ilsofalvy (tenor) & Tom Krause (bass), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) & Hans Sotin (bass)

London Symphony Orchestra, The Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Chorus, István Kertész

Robust, colourful performances. Not the last word in subtlety, perhaps, but boasting fine analogue Decca engineering and some outstanding soloists. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: ELQ4804850
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

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Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89

Work length1:34:49

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Erszebet Komlossy (mezzo-soprano), Robert Ilosfalvy (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers
Istvan Kertesz

Requiem aeternam

Track length10:41

Graduale

Track length5:07

Dies irae

Track length2:09

Tuba mirum

Track length8:42

Quid sum miser

Track length6:02

Recordare, Jesu pie

Track length6:58

Confutatis maledictis

Track length4:15

Lacrimosa

Track length6:19

Offertorium (Domine, Jesu Christe)

Track length11:12

Hostias

Track length11:18

Sanctus

Track length5:54

Pie Jesu

Track length5:12

Agnus Dei

Track length11:00

Rossini: Stabat Mater

Work length53:58

Pilar Lorengar (soprano), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus
Istvan Kertesz

1. Stabat Mater dolorosa

Track length8:27

2. Cujus animam gementem

Track length5:49

3. Quis est homo qui non fleret

Track length5:41

4. Pro peccatis suae gentis

Track length4:32

5. Eja Mater fons amoris

Track length4:20

6. Sancta Mater istud agas

Track length7:00

7. Fac ut portem Christi mortem

Track length4:02

8. Inflammatus et accensus

Track length4:27

9. Quando corpus morietur

Track length4:07

10. Amen

Track length5:33

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Dvořák naturally gave a great deal of attention to the genre of the oratorio, and it was his work in this area that firmly established his reputation in the English-speaking world. Rossini very much admired Pergolesi’s fine setting of the Stabat Mater, but had not felt equal to attempting his own. The decision to try came as a result of a plea from a Spanish prelate, Fernández Varela, who wished to possess an original Rossini manuscript. However, Rossini succumbed to an attack of lumbago and had given the score to Giovanni Tadolini to complete. Rossini forbade any publication or performance of the score as it stood and eventually supplied another publisher (Troupenas) with a complete, all-Rossini score. Together with the Mozart Requiem and his Masonic music, these are the only sacred works recorded by Kertész for Decca. Both feature Pilar Lorengar singing the soprano parts and the Rossini also features Luciano Pavarotti, dazzling in his tenor solo.

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February 2013

Robust, colourful performances. Not the last word in subtlety, perhaps, but boasting fine analogue Decca engineering and some outstanding soloists.

Lorengar's singing is particularly sensitive and appealing in the quieter passages … The four soloists combine beautifully in the quartet "Recordare, Jesu pie", and the chorus with them in "Pie Jesu, Domine", perhaps the loveliest movement in the work … The hero of the occasion is Kertész. He gets choral singing and orchestral playing of the finest quality from the Ambrosian Singers and the London Symphony Orchestra. It is abundantly evident that he cherishes a great love for this work … tremendous vitality and care for balance … The big climaxes are thrilling and altogether Kertesz and his forces make one revise one's qualified view of the work to a very large extent. This is certainly the finest performance of it that I have ever heard

Dvorak: Requiem & Rossini: Stabat Mater

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