The Zurich Chamber Singers - Scarlatti- Stabat Mater (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Restriction and reflection. Like every choir, the Zurich Chamber Singers have suffered particularly from the restrictions and restrictions of hygiene regulations since the beginning of the pandemic. Cancelled concerts, cancelled recordings, but then in early 2021 the possibility of recording in a small cast. Conductor and ensemble director Christian Erny saw the opportunity and seized it by the scruff: "The composition falls at a time when Scarlatti had a very good choir at his disposal. Let's assume that he thought that he could draw from the full. There are really 25 minutes of highest intensity with ten solo voices and it goes from innermost grief, from most intimate despair to operatic drama, that you sometimes have the feeling that the piece explodes“. And with only ten votes.

Scarlatti's setting of the medieval funeral poem of the sorrowful Mother of Jesus on the cross of her Son represents the entire emotional spectrum of the text. Scarlatti, who is more commonly known from his 555 sonatas, completely excites the vocal possibilities and thus creates a dense network, which the Zurich Chamber Singers never let become opaque.

TRACKLIST

1. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: I. Stabat mater
2. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: II. Cujus animam gementem
3. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: III. Quis non posset
4. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: IV. Eja mater, fons amoris
5. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: V. Sancta mater, istud agas
6. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: VI. Fac me vere tecum flere
7. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: VII. Juxta crucem
8. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: VIII. Inflammatus
9. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: IX. Fac ut animae
10. The Zurich Chamber Singers - Stabat mater: X. Amen



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