Dvořák: Stabat Mater

CD: Dvořák: Stabat Mater

Dvořák Stabat Mater

Neeme Järvi conductor
Janice Watson soprano
Dagmar Pecková mezzo-soprano
Peter Auty tenor
Peter Rose bass
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
Pieter Schoeman leader

Dvořák’s Stabat Mater was a work brought about by personal tragedy of almost incomprehensible proportions, after the composer lost all three of his then living children. A setting of the mediaeval Latin prayer to the bereaved mother of the crucified Christ, it was to become both a work of mourning and a work of healing. The shifts of mood from grief and near despair to hope and faith run throughout the work, before the glory and solace of the final Amen. Neeme Järvi conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in this live concert recording.

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