Liszt: Via Crucis

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The work’s intense atmosphere is beautifully caught here by pianist-conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and the perfectly balanced vocal forces of Collegium Vocale Gent. With the addition of three Latin... — Choir & Organ, July 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 15th Mar 2019
Catalogue No: ALPHA390
Label: Alpha
Length: 50 minutes

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Liszt: Via Crucis (The 14 Stations of the Cross), S53

Work length36:59

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Reinbert de Leeuw, Collegium Vocale Gent

Vexilla Regis

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Station I. Jesus wird zum tode verdamnt

Track length1:16

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Station II. Jesus trägt sein Kreuz

Track length2:09

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Station III. Jesus fällt zum ersten mal

Track length1:20

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Station IV. Jesus begegnet seiner heiligen

Track length2:00

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Station V. Simon von Kyrene hilft Jesus das Kreuz tragen

Track length2:48

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Station VI. Sancta Veronica

Track length2:18

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Station VII. Jesus fällt zum zweiten Mal

Track length1:17

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Station VIII. Die Frauen von Jerusalem

Track length2:05

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Station IX. Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal

Track length1:17

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Station X. Jesus wird entkleidet

Track length1:39

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Station XI. Jesus wird ans Kreuz geschlagen

Track length0:49

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Station XII. Jesus stirbt am Kreuze

Track length5:56

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Station XIII. Jesus wird vom Kreuz genommen

Track length3:16

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Station XIV. Jesus wird ins Grab gelegt

Track length4:49

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Liszt: Salve Regina, S. 66

Work length3:24

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Reinbert de Leeuw, Collegium Vocale Gent

Liszt: Vater unser, S. 29

Work length6:55

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Marnix de Cat, Reinbert de Leeuw, Collegium Vocale Gent

Liszt: Ave verum corpus, S44

Work length2:45

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Marnix de Cat, Reinbert de Leeuw, Collegium Vocale Gent

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Franz Liszt was 67 when he composed his Via Crucis, yet it did not receive its first performance until 1929, 43 years after the composer’s death. This work of his mature years is in 15 sections, retracing the Stations of the Cross that mark the stages of Christ’s Passion, from being condemned to death to being laid in the tomb. Combining Gregorian chant, the Lutheran liturgy and the Latin, German and Aramaic languages, the Via Crucis shows real formal originality. A devout believer, Liszt gives us here his most important sacred work. He composed several versions: for mixed choir, soloists and organ (with the organ part optionally transcribed for piano), for piano solo, organ solo, and two pianos.

After a CD devoted to Janacek, the Collegium Vocale founded by Philippe Herreweghe is once again conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw in this new Alpha recording.

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July 2019

The work’s intense atmosphere is beautifully caught here by pianist-conductor Reinbert de Leeuw and the perfectly balanced vocal forces of Collegium Vocale Gent. With the addition of three Latin motets, this CD is a fine achievement and presents a more unusual kind of Passiontide music to the usual offerings.

January/February 2020

It’s an exceptionally beautiful performance—the 16-voice choir (its color tinted by the presence of two counter-tenors in the alto section) has a gorgeous tone and a fine sense of ensemble; and everything is shaped with elegance. But it’s also a performance that tames the music’s provocations.

June 2019

Throughout, de Leeuw maintains an almost transcendental poise as, from the piano, he steers the performance through an often stark and desolate musical landscape. With just 16 voices – four to each part – Collegium Vocale Gent perfectly match the intimacy of de Leeuw’s approach.

March 2019

The spacious acoustic of Gent’s Sint-Machariuskerk provides an appropriately contemplative atmosphere for this account of Liszt’s meditations on the Stations of the Cross, written towards the end of the composer’s life but only premiered in 1929; the crystal-clear upper voices blend ideally in the Stabat Mater, and in De Leeuw’s hands the piano interludes seem to foreshadow Messiaen’s Vingt regards.

24th March 2019

This is not the Liszt of dashing virtuosity, but the aged composer fighting depression and calling on his deep faith for help...De Leeuw, playing and conducting, and the Collegium Vocale Gent give this work, and three shorter late sacred masterpieces, with apt intensity.

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