Composer: Karol Szymanowski, Krzysztof Penderecki
Performer: Elena Mosuc, Annette Markert, Anton Scharinger, Chorus sine nomine, Stephen Roberts, Wiener Konzertchor, Zachos Terzakis, Ewa Izykowska
Orchestra: Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Gielen
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Orfeo
Catalogue: C210311
Release: 2022
Size: 564 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Szymanowski: Stabat Mater, op. 53
01. I. Stała matka bolejąca
02. II. I któż widział tak cierpiącą
03. III. O Matko Źródło Wszechmiłości
04. IV. Spraw niech płaczę z Tobą razem
05. V. Panno słodka racz mozołem
06. VI. Chrystus niech mi będzie grodem
Penderecki: Dies irae
07. I. Lamentatio
08. II. Apocalypsis
09. III. Apotheosis
10. Penderecki: Threnody to the victims of Hiroshima
Despite their different musical languages, all works by the Polish composers Karol Szymanowski and Krzysztof Penderecki presented on this album have in common the inherent character of a lament: Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater, which was completed in 1926 and is based on a Polish translation of the Latin medieval poem, is considered as one of the most important compositions of the 20th century.
Penderecki’s three-part oratorio Dies Irae was commissioned for a commemoration day in remembrance of the murder victims at the former concentration camp in Auschwitz, and hence carries the epithet “Auschwitz Oratorium”. The album closes with a Threnos for 52 string instruments dedicated to the Victims of Hiroshima. The final haunting bars of this composition present a tutti cluster, starting in a triple forte and fading out to quadruple piano.