Boccherini: Stabat Mater & String Quartet Op. 41, No. 1

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Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: 95356
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 57 minutes

Boccherini: Quartet No. 56 in C minor G214, Op. 41 No. 1, 1788, Opera Grande

Work length17:46

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Ensemble Symposium

I. Prestissimo

Track length5:17

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II. Tempo di minuetto

Track length5:52

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III. Andante flebile

Track length4:24

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IV. Prestissimo

Track length2:13

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Boccherini: Stabat Mater (1st version, 1781, for soprano & string orchestra), G532

Work length39:57

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Francesca Boncompagni
Ensemble Symposium

Stabat mater dolorosa (1781 version) [Original 1781 Version]

Track length4:59

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Cujus animam gementem (Original 1781 Version)

Track length2:18

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Quae moerebat et dolebat (Original 1781 Version)

Track length2:42

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Quis est homo? (Original 1781 Version)

Track length1:17

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Pro peccatis suae gentis (Original 1781 Version)

Track length3:48

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Eja, Mater, fons amoris (Original 1781 Version)

Track length6:46

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Tui nati vulnerati (Original 1781 Version)

Track length4:18

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Virgo virginum praeclara (Original 1781 Version)

Track length4:49

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Fac ut portem Christi mortem (Original 1781 Version)

Track length2:59

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Fac me plagis vulnerari (Original 1781 Version)

Track length2:14

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Quando corpus morietur (Original 1781 Version)

Track length3:47

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Luigi Boccherini is best known for his delightful chamber music, such as the substantial collections of string quartets, quintets and guitar quintets. His vocal works, including two operas, two oratorios, three cantatas and more than a dozen concert arias, are essentially marginal to his output; though the Stabat Mater of 1781, revised in 1800 from a soprano solo setting to one for three voices, is by no means untypical with its intimate mood, its sighing appoggiaturas, and the warmth and graceful pathos of the F minor trio movements which flank the 1800 version. Such features may also be seen as in a clear line of descent from Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater.

The Stabat Mater also includes certain features borrowed from earlier works such as the Quartet op.2 no.1 of 1761, or the Quintet op.29 no.6 of 1779. By the same token, Boccherini also stole from other works to write the Stabat Mater, including the Quartet op.41 no.1 in C minor included on this album. Written in 1788, the quartet is structured as a cycle (Prestissimo – Tempo di Minuetto – Flebile – Prestissimo), and includes a melody in the minuet’s Trio that is distinctly reminiscent of the ‘Cujus animam’. Moreover, the Flebile reveals substantial borrowing from the final section of ‘Quando corpus morietur’. These connections with the Stabat Mater explain why the Quartet has been included in this recording.

Boccherini: Stabat Mater & String Quartet Op. 41, No. 1

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