Beethoven's Second Symphony and Rossini's Stabat Mater
Sir Mark Elder conducts a quartet of soloists, the Hall茅 Choir and Orchestra in Beethoven's Second Symphony and Rossini's Stabat Mater at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall.
Rossini鈥檚 late Stabat Mater is a choral masterwork which he completed well over a decade after the end of his operatic career. In setting the medieval Latin text recounting the sorrows of the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion, Rossini responded with music that exudes qualities of granite and grandeur. Such was the success of its premiere that within the following year it had been performed all over Europe 29 times!
Beethoven鈥檚 Second Symphony, full of the wit and high spirits we also associate with Rossini, make it the perfect companion to the Stabat Mater, and a great opener to the concert.
Recorded at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester last month.
Presented by Miriam Skinner.
Beethoven: Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
Rossini: Stabat Mater
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)
Claudia Huckle (contralto)
Enea Scala (tenor)
William Thomas (bass)
Hall茅 Choir
Hall茅 Orchestra
Sir Mark Elder (conductor)
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.2 in D major, Op.36
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Franz Liszt
Capriccio alla Turca (on themes of Beethoven's "The Ruins of Athens")
Performer: Ian Yungwook Yoo.- Naxos.
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Franz Liszt
7 variations brillantes sur un theme de Rossini
Performer: Gianluca Luisi.- Naxos.
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Gioachino Rossini
Stabat Mater
Singer: Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha. Singer: Claudia Huckle. Singer: Enea Scala. Singer: William Thomas. Choir: Hall茅 Choir. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Mark Elder. -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No 1 in F Major, Op 18 No 1
Ensemble: Chiaroscuro Quartet.- Beethoven: String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos. 1-3.
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- 101.
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