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Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz & Sheba
José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, Joseph Haydn

Capella Augustina & Andreas Spering

Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz & Sheba

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Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085535187
Catnr: AVI 8553518
Release date: 18 November 2022
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CAvi
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4260085535187
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AVI 8553518
Release date
18 November 2022
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About the album

HAYDN and……….

“This recording is the result of a project launched a few years ago by the Brühl Castle Concerts series (Brühler Schlosskonzerte) and Capella Augustina within the framework of the Haydn Festival, which they organize. We commission works that are related in a certain manner with the oeuvre of Joseph Haydn and are explicitly conceived for an orchestra playing on period instruments.

In 2018, we commissioned a piece from Spanish composer José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, one of whose works I had the privilege of premiering a while back: a mesmerizing, fantastically well-orchestrated work. Born in Andalusia, Sánchez-Verdú chose to enact a new musical encounter with Haydn’s work Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (“The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross”). Indeed, as is well known, Haydn wrote Die sieben letzten Worte for a passion liturgy held on Good Friday in the Spanish port town of Cádiz.

Sánchez-Verdú has written Sheba (the Hebrew word for “seven”) as a series of interludes to be inserted between the movements of Haydn’s original work. Each of Haydn’s seven “sonatas” is followed by a 2-to-3-minute movement that serves as a commentary, an exegesis, a prolongation, or an antithesis to what has been previously heard. Sánchez-Verdú’s seventh and final movement leads without pause into the “earthquake” music that closes Die sieben letzten Worte.

Sánchez-Verdú occasionally takes an isolated chord or timbre from Die sieben letzten Worte as a point of departure; in other cases, he has found inspiration in one of Haydn’s musical impulses or gestures. In the process of composing Sheba, the period instruments served as a challenge and as a stimulus. .“ (Excerpt from the booklet notes by Andreas Spering)
HAYDN und……….

„Die vorliegende Aufnahme ist Frucht und Folge eines Projektes, das die Brühler Schlosskonzerte und
die Capella Augustina seit einigen Jahren im Rahmen ihres Haydn Festivals initiiert haben.
Wir vergeben Kompositionsaufträge, die sich, in welcher Form auch immer, mit dem Werk Joseph
Haydns auseinandersetzen und explizit für ein Orchester mit historischen Instrumenten geschrieben
werden.

2018 ging der Auftrag an den spanischen Komponisten José Maria Sánchez-Verdú, von dem
ich einige Zeit zuvor schon ein hochinteressantes, fantastisch instrumentiertes Werk uraufführen durfte.
Sanchez-Verdu, der selbst aus Andalusien stammt, entschied sich für eine kompositorische
Auseinandersetzung mit dem Werk Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Keuze.

Haydn schrieb das Stück bekanntlich für eine spezielle Passionsliturgie des Karfreitags in Cadiz.
Sánchez-Verdú schrieb Sheba (das ist das hebräische Wort für „sieben“) als Interludien zu Haydns
Werk. Jeder der 7 Sonaten folgt ein etwa 2-3 minütiger Satz, der als Kommentar, Exegese, Fortsetzung
oder auch Antithese der Haydnschen Stücke wirkt. Der abschließende siebte Satz leitet unmittelbar in
das finale Erdbeben über.

Manchmal ist es ein einzelner Klang, dann wieder ein Bewegungsimpuls oder nur ein Gestus im Werk
Haydns, der für ihn Inspiration und Ausgangspunkt ist.

Ihm war dabei das historische Instrumentarium Ansporn und Auftrag.“
(Auszug aus dem Booklettext von Andreas Spering)

Artist(s)

Capella Augustina

Traverso Michael Schmidt-Casdorff · Gudrun Knop Oboe Susanne Regel · Benjamin Völkel Fagott / Bassoon Rebecca Mertens · Inga Klaucke · Cordula Caso Horn Christian Binde · Jörg Schultess · Uli Hübner · Karen Hübner Trompete / Trumpet Sebastian Schärr · Norbert Vohn Pauke / Timpani Christoph Nünchert Violin I Monica Waisman · Salma Sadek · Anna-Maria Smerd Lorena Padrón Ortiz · Danylo Gertsev · Elisabeth Moog Violin II Gudrun Engelhardt · Jesús Merino Ruiz · Ha-Na Lee Christoph Timpe · Malina Mantcheva Viola Antje Sabinski · Gabrielle Kancachian · Johannes Platz · Sara Hubrich Cello Markus Möllenbeck · Inka Döring · Hannah Freienstein Violone Ioannis Babaloukas · Jörg Lühring Ever since it was founded by Andreas Spering in 1996, the Capella Augustina has been one of the most renowned German orchestras in the...
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Traverso Michael Schmidt-Casdorff · Gudrun Knop Oboe Susanne Regel · Benjamin Völkel Fagott / Bassoon Rebecca Mertens · Inga Klaucke · Cordula Caso Horn Christian Binde · Jörg Schultess · Uli Hübner · Karen Hübner Trompete / Trumpet Sebastian Schärr · Norbert Vohn Pauke / Timpani Christoph Nünchert Violin I Monica Waisman · Salma Sadek · Anna-Maria Smerd Lorena Padrón Ortiz · Danylo Gertsev · Elisabeth Moog Violin II Gudrun Engelhardt · Jesús Merino Ruiz · Ha-Na Lee Christoph Timpe · Malina Mantcheva Viola Antje Sabinski · Gabrielle Kancachian · Johannes Platz · Sara Hubrich Cello Markus Möllenbeck · Inka Döring · Hannah Freienstein Violone Ioannis Babaloukas · Jörg Lühring Ever since it was founded by Andreas Spering in 1996, the Capella Augustina has been one of the most renowned German orchestras in the area of historical performance practice. Moreover, it is the only ensemble of its kind to perform early music as well as contemporary music (commissioned works).
In recent years, in its function as Orchestra in Residence of the Brühl Palace Concerts (Brühler Schlosskonzerte), the Capella Augustina has rehearsed and performed nine of Joseph Haydn’s operas, all his oratorios, and almost 70 of his symphonies.
The quality resulting from this ensemble’s ongoing endeavor has attracted increasing attention well beyond the Rhine region, as can be noted in a number of rave reviews of the orchestra’s concerts and opera productions. A great number of CDs, including award-winning releases, also testify to the ensemble’s widely acknowledged first-rate quality.

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Andreas Spering (conductor)

Andreas Spering Conductor is one of the leading European specialists in the area of early music. His artistic outlook was decisively influenced by Gerd Zacher in Essen and by his years as harpsichordist for the renowned ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln. From 1999 to 2007, Spering served as musical director of the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe. As artistic director of the Brühl Palace Concerts (Brühler Schlosskonzerte), he established what is now the only Haydn festival in the world. Spering is invited to conduct orchestras all over Europe, focusing his attention on works by Haydn along with all other composers of Vienna Classicism and Early Romanticism. A number of outstanding opera houses and festivals also invite him to conduct works by Handel and Mozart. Spering’s discography comprises a multitude of recordings,...
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Andreas Spering Conductor is one of the leading European specialists in the area of early music. His artistic outlook was decisively influenced by Gerd Zacher in Essen and by his years as harpsichordist for the renowned ensemble Musica Antiqua Köln.
From 1999 to 2007, Spering served as musical director of the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe. As artistic director of the Brühl Palace Concerts (Brühler Schlosskonzerte), he established what is now the only Haydn festival in the world. Spering is invited to conduct orchestras all over Europe, focusing his attention on works by Haydn along with all other composers of Vienna Classicism and Early Romanticism.
A number of outstanding opera houses and festivals also invite him to conduct works by Handel and Mozart. Spering’s discography comprises a multitude of recordings, some of which have received prestigious awards, including his version of Haydn’s Creation, widely acknowledged as a benchmark in its field.

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Composer(s)

Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets 'Father of the Symphony' and 'Father of the String Quartet'.   Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, 'forced to become original'. Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.   He was a friend and mentor of Mozart,...
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(Franz) Joseph Haydn was a prolific Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio and his contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
Haydn spent much of his career as a court musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become original". Yet his music circulated widely and for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Europe.
He was a friend and mentor of Mozart, a teacher of Beethoven, with whom he formed the First Viennese School. He was also the older brother of composer Michael Haydn.

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01.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Introduzione
05:04
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
02.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata I
05:58
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
03.
Sheba I
02:16
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
04.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata II
07:40
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
05.
Sheba II
02:05
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
06.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata III
07:30
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
07.
Sheba III
02:44
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
08.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata IV
08:51
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
09.
Sheba IV
01:38
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
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Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata V
08:41
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
11.
Sheba V
02:20
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
12.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata VI
06:34
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
13.
Sheba VI
02:10
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
14.
Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Sonata VII
07:49
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
15.
Sheba VII
02:31
(José Maria Sánchez-Verdú) Capella Augustina
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Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuz / The seven last words of Christ (1787): Il Terremoto
01:30
(Joseph Haydn) Capella Augustina
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