Haydn: Stabat Mater

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Jacobs is a conductor who always strives to inject as much drama as possible into his performances, and he vividly conveys the sobbing effects and the stabs of pain that run through the Stabat... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 17th Mar 2023
Catalogue No: PTC5186953
Label: Pentatone
Length: 61 minutes

Presto Editor's Choice

March 2023
International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Choral

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Haydn: Stabat Mater

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Kristina Hammarström, Birgitte Christensen, Christian Immler, Steve Davislim
Basel Chamber Orchestra, Zürcher Sing-Akademie
René Jacobs

I. Stabat mater dolorosa

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II. O quam tristis et afflictia

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III. Quis est homo qui non fleret

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IV. Quis non posset contristari

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V. Pro peccatis suae gentis

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VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum

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VII. Eja mater, fons amoris

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VIII. Sancta Mater, istud agas

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IX. Fac me vere tecum flere

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X. Virgo virginum praeclara

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XI. Flammis orcis ne succendar

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XII. Fac me cruce custodiri

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XIII. Quando corpus morietur

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XIV. Paradisi gloria

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PERFECT BALANCE BETWEEN DRAMATIC PATHOS AND DISTANCED PORTRAYAL

René Jacobs presents Joseph Haydn’s Stabat Mater, together with the Kammerorchester Basel, Zürcher Singakademie and an excellent quartet of vocal soloists (Birgitte Christensen, Kristina Hammarström, Steve Davislim and Christian Immler). With this recording, Jacobs finally returns to a composer that is very dear to him, and offers a first vocal album on Pentatone after acclaimed interpretations of Schubert’s complete symphonies. Setting a text that depicts the most tragic event of Christ’s life, Haydn manages to find a balance between dramatic pathos and expression and a more composed, distanced portrayal, fitting his Classical aesthetic orientation. Initially composed in 1767, this recording employs a 1803 edition with enlarged wind orchestration created with the help of Haydn’s apprentice Sigismund Neukomm, which makes the work even more dramatic and colourful. Jacobs and his players and singers display a great sense of style and drama in this remarkable rendition.

Multiple prize-winning conductor René Jacobs is one of the most important representatives of the historically-informed performance practice. Haydn’s Stabat Mater is his fifth Pentatone album, after a complete Schubert symphonies cycle released between 2018 and 2021. The Kammerorchester Basel, Zürcher Sing-Akademie, Birgitte Christensen, Kristina Hammarström, Steve Davislim and Christian Immler all make their Pentatone debut.

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June 2023

Jacobs is a conductor who always strives to inject as much drama as possible into his performances, and he vividly conveys the sobbing effects and the stabs of pain that run through the Stabat Mater..this is generally an impressive performance, helped by an accomplished team of soloists and a strong choral contribution from the Zurich Sing-Akadamie.

September 2023

The 32-strong Zurich Sing-Akademie acquit themselves with untiring zeal, really lifting the climactic fugue off the page, accompanied by the period-instrument Basel Chamber Orchestra.

March 2023

Using the 1803 edition of the score for expanded wind section which Haydn prepared in collaboration with Sigismund Neukomm, Jacobs gives the Stabat Mater full-scale operatic treatment on this arresting recording, which grabs you by the scruff of the neck right from the opening bars; Immler supplies blood and thunder aplenty in the Pro peccatis, and in Jacobs's hands the Flammis orcis ne succendar would scarcely sound out of place in the Verdi Requiem…

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