Chester Music Society Choir: Dvorak Stabat Mater

CHOIR
Saturday 13 March 2010 | 7.30 pm | Chester Cathedral

Dvorak Stabat Mater

Joanne Dexter, soprano
Jeanette Ager, mezzo-soprano
Oliver White, tenor
Neil Baker, baritone
Chester Music Society Choir
Liverpool Sinfonia
Graham Jordan Ellis, conductor

"The choir produced singing of great quality - well balanced, rhythmically incisive and with excellent diction. Their first entry was genuinely thrilling, filling the cathedral with a glorious sound." Liverpool Daily Post

Dvořák was one of the most prolific of composers of the 19th Century. The poem Stabat Mater Dolorosa, which describes the Virgin Mary grieving beside the cross, is a 13th-century poem attributed to an Italian cleric Jacapone da Todi. Among all Stabat Maters ever set to music by various composers over the centuries, this one holds a special place as the most symphonic and as the one that was the most clearly written by a classical orchestral composer. It is also one of the most moving. Dvořák's Stabat Mater was his first work on a religious theme and was his reaction to the death of his daughter Josefa. The definitive version of the score was written between October and November, 1877. It was first performed in 1880.

Tickets:
£12, £16 (Nave: numbered, reserved)
£6 (Aisles, unreserved, restricted view)
Reduced prices available.

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