Szymanowski: Stabat Mater/Harnasie Choir Orchestral & Concertos Chandos

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KAROL MACIEJ SZYMANOWSKI

(1882-1937)

Stabat Mater, Op. 53 (1925-28)

23:25

for Solo Voices, Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra

Pamieci Izabeli Krystallowej

'Stala Matka bolejaca' (Mother, bowed with grief appalling).

6:26

Andante, mesto - Più lento - Tempo I - Poco meno -

Tempo I - Più lento

'I ktoz, widzac tak cierpiaca' (Is there any, tears withholding).

2:20

Moderato - Poco più mosso - Tempo I

'Matko, zrodlo wszechmilosci' (Love's sweet fountain, Mother tender).

3:57

Lento, dolcissimo - Poco meno

'Spraw, niech placze z Toba razem' (In Thy keeping, watching, weeping).

2:49

Moderato

'Panno slodka, racz, mozolem' (Maid immaculate, excelling).

2:44

Allegro moderato - Poco meno - Tempo come sopra - Poco meno

'Chrystus niech mi bedzie grodem' (May His sacred cross defend me).

4:51

Andante tranquillissimo - Meno mosso

Solo: Lucy Crowe soprano

Solo: Pamela Helen Stephen mezzo-soprano

Solo: Gabor Bretz baritone

Harnasie, Op. 55 (1923-31)

34:59

Góral Ballet in One Act, in Two Scenes

À Irène Warden

Obraz I (Tableau I). Na hali (In the Mountain Pasture)

Redyk (Wiosenne wyjscie stad na hale)

4:57

(Spring departure for the mountain pastures).

Andante tranquillo - Poco animato, ma non troppo vivo - Meno mosso - Meno mosso

Zaloty (Courtship).

2:11

Vivace. Allegramente - Poco meno - Meno mosso, andantino-

Marsz zbojnicki (Robbers' March).

1:35

Tempo di marcia, ma animato - Più animato - Ancora più animato -

10.

Harnas i dziewczyna (Harnas and the Girl).

3:47

Poco meno. Tranquillo - Meno mosso, andantino - Subito più mosso, agitato molto -

11.

Taniec zbojnicki. Final (Robbers' Dance. Finale).

4:39

Allegramente, non troppo vivace - Poco sostenuto - Avvivando -

Obraz II (Tableau II). W. karczmie (In the Inn)

12.

Wesele (Wedding).

2:25

Allegramente, non troppo vivace - Poco meno - Poco più (come sopra) -

13.

Cepiny (Capping the bride).

1:59

Andantino dolce - Poco animato - Più tranquillo - Poco animato -

14.

Piesn siuhajow (Song of the Siuhaje).

1:14

Allegramente - Poco sostenuto -

15.

Taniec góralski (Góral Dance).

3:50

Meno mosso - Allegro moderato - Più mosso -

16.

Napad harnasiów. Taniec. Porwanie mlodej

5:23

(Raid of the Harnasie. Dance. Abducton of the Bride).

Moderato, con passione - Più mosso (très rythmé) - Poco sostenuto -

17.

Epilog (Epilogue). [ ]

2:52

Solo: Robert Murray tenor

Total time: 58:36

Conductor: Edward Gardner

5 and 6 January 2013

“… This surprising and fascinating music receives, as I indicate, excellent performances all round. I strongly suggest that you hear this one yourself.”

Lynn René Bayley – Fanfare – January/February 2014

Gardner restores the great work [Harnasie], as people’s music, modest in scale and forces, unusually individualistic for choral music - the three soloists only perform together near the end It’s a performance that follows the composer closer in avoiding ’garish elements’ or obtrusive emotions, and it delivers all the more for that." ****

Brian Morton - Choir & Organ magazine - November/December 2013

"This is Edward Gardner’s seventh disc of 20th-century Polish music for Chandos, and arguably the most valuable The influences , especially of Stravinsky and early Bartók, fit unself-consciously with the folk inflections and the bold, primary colours of the scoring. Gardners performance with the BBC Symphony Orchestra vividly captures that earthy spontaneity and the rhythmic drive of the music; his account of the other major works of the same period, the Stabat Mater, is just as convincing." *****

Andrew Clements - The Guardian - 25 October 2013

"...The Stabat Mater of 1925 is one of his [Szymanowski] finest works, uniting Polish folk music and an impressionistic sound world. Edward Gardner and the BBC Symphony Orchestra capture the work’s intensity, for the unpretentious ballet score Harnasie..."

Paul Gent - The Telegraph- 19 October 2013

"Two of Szymanowski’s most sublime later works here recieve performances entirely commensurate with their stature and thoroughly in tune with the music’s distinctive world of expression ..."

Geoffrey Norris - Gramophone magazine - October 2013

"...Gardner’s disc is worth acquiring ..."

Raymond S Tuttle - International Record Review - October 2013

Performance ***** Recording *****

"...Once again, Edward Gardner shows that he excels in Szymanowski’s rich ordhestral tapestries. This performance mixes wild mystery with coruscating brilliance ..."

John Allison - BBC Music magazine - November 2013

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