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Alexei Lubimov - Joseph Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ (2014)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 27 Dec 2023 17:54:47

Although it is played on a period instrument, no one is arguing that this recording of Haydn's The Seven Last Words of Christ is historically authentic. The work, exceptionally in Haydn's output, exists in multiple versions, for orchestra, string quartet, chorus, and keyboard (either fortepiano or harpsichord). But surely Haydn did not have the instrument heard here, the rare tangent piano, in his head. This was, speaking roughly, a piano-harpsichord hybrid that never really found its footing in the late 18th century. As long as listeners are down with the idea of a fairly speculative recording, the effect of the tangent piano in this particular work is electrifying. Lubimov gets the best of both worlds: the intimacy of the keyboard version and the dynamic contrasts and timbral shadings of the orchestral original. The keyboard transcription is not by Haydn himself but was made in his own time, and he approved it. Lubimov works from this, tweaking it and adding contrasts that break up the seven consecutive slow movements and give them an extraordinarily expressive quality. Even when listeners know it's coming, the final Terremoto movement, depicting the earthquake following Christ's crucifixion, comes as a shock. Listeners will never hear the work quite the same way again after experiencing this recording, and even if Haydn didn't intend it this way, most may well end up wishing he had.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

01. Introduzione: Maestoso ed adagio (05:32)
02. Sonata 1. Pater, dimitte illis, non enim scient quid faciunt (Largo) (05:39)
03. Sonata 2. Amen dico tibi: hodie mecum eris in Paradiso (Grave e cantabile) (07:21)
04. Sonata 3. Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua (Grave) (09:19)
05. Sonata 4. Eli, Eli, lama asabthani (Largo)
06. Sonata 5. Sitio (Adagio) (09:02)
07. Sonata 6. Consumatum est (Lento) (08:14)
08. Sonata 7. Pater, in tuas manus commendo spiritum meum (Largo) (09:05)
09. Il Terremoto: Presto e con tutta la forza (02:23)

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EAC extraction logfile from 22. October 2014, 19:13

Joseph Haydn / The seven last words of Christ on the Cross

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log date: 2015-10-19 18:18:25

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