The Stabat Mater by Joseph Haydn by dochtersions

Fractal • Abstract • posted on Nov 11, 2015

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Today I did my work while listening (and now and then dancing) to The Stabat Mater of Joseph Haydn. In the implementation of The Argo Chamber Orchestra, L.Heltay. With A.Auger, A.Hogson, A Rolfe Johnson, G.Howell, and The London Chamber Choir. (this included for the enthusiast.) Anyway, this version I find sublime. Thank you very much for your interest and probable leaving some words to it.

Comments (14)

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bugsnouveau

1:53PM | Wed, 11 November 2015

Very beautiful...wonderful work

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MrsRatbag

8:51PM | Wed, 11 November 2015

Oh, this is sublime! What a marvelous piece of art, with so much depth and texture!

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durleybeachbum

1:36AM | Thu, 12 November 2015

I love that piece of music too. Lovely work.

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farmerC

3:46AM | Thu, 12 November 2015

Pure Schoonheid met Prachtige kleuren.

een Toppertje.

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anahata.c

9:10AM | Thu, 12 November 2015

I went to YouTube and found the recording! I heard a little bit of it. It's beautiful, and so sensitively done. I heard the piece years back, but (sadly for me) I haven't heard it in years. When we studied the great hymns of the church, the Stabat Mater always struck many of us as one of the most personal. And of course it's so human, and crying out for love and understanding while surrounded by deep grief and loss (and the feeling, on the part of the poet, of hoping he or she has lived a worthy life). What's stunning about your fractal is how many levels of Haydn's music you got. Not just the "dolorosa" part---the mournful and deeply sad part---but you got Haydn's structure, his classical sense, his sense of joy in the presence of harmony everywhere. You got his sense of balance. And how he molded pain into something beautiful. (The way Bach did in his Passions, which I'm sure you love as well.) It's not easy to capture all that in one image...And you have deep purples and dark greens, colors evoking dolorous feeling; but there's light in here too, as there is in Haydn's beautiful setting, along with structural harmony, and energy radiating outward from a kind of heart. It's beautiful, Mies, and anytime you want to post artistic interpretations of music, you have my ear. Or eye. I'd like to think that Haydn would look at this and say, "yes, that's what I was feeling, exactly."

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