Liszt - Stabat mater, S172b (Thomson)

Liszt's sacred music is generally forgotten, but it exists as another great monument of Liszt's compositional scope. The date of the Stabat Mater is uncertain, but must postdate Liszt’s arrangements of the ‘Cujus animam’ from Rossini’s Stabat Mater, since it includes material from the introduction to that piece, as introduction and bridge passage in the present piece, which otherwise elaborates the Gregorian chant of this text, set in thirds, as it is in Christus and in the much later Via Crucis. The piano piece has nothing else in common with these later works, however, being in a more simple variation form rather akin to that of the Miserere in the Harmonies poétiques. A small charming piece, that sounds very programmatic.

Видео Liszt - Stabat mater, S172b (Thomson) канала Andrei Cristian Anghel