Prazak Quartet, Helen Kearns - Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Christ (2024) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): I. Introduzione. Maestoso ed Adagio
02. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): II. Sonata I (Largo. Pater, dimitte illis, non enim sciunt quid faciunt)
03. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): III. Sonata II (Grave e cantabile. Amen dico tibi: hodie mecum eris in paradiso)
04. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): IV. Sonata III (Grave. Mulier, ecce filius tuus, et tu, ecce mater tua)
05. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): V. Sonata IV (Largo. Deus meus, ut quid dereliquisti me?)
06. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): VI. Sonata V (Adagio. Sitio)
07. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): VII. Sonata VI (Lento. Consummatum est)
08. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): VIII. Sonata VII (Largo. Pater, in manus Tuas commendo spiritum meum)
09. The Seven Last Words of Christ, Op. 51, Hob. III:50–56 (Arr. for String Quartet & Soprano by José Peris Lacasa): IX. Il Terremoto (Presto e con tutta la forza)

Joseph Haydn was commissioned by a canon of Cádiz, José Sáenz de Santamaría, Marquès de Valde-Íñigo, to compose a work for performance on Good Friday 1787 in the city’s Oratorio de la Santa Cueva. The result was the orchestral version of The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, which Haydn arranged shortly afterwards for string quartet, a version that was to prove an enduring success.

More recently, in 2008, the composer José Peris Lacasa, a student of Milhaud, Boulanger and Markevitch, provided a version for string quartet and soprano voice, with the latter singing the Latin text originally written by Haydn under the first violin part. Far from distorting the original piece, this version, performed here by the Prazak Quartet with the Irish soprano Helen Kearns, sheds new light on one of Haydn’s great masterpieces.

Helen Kearns, soprano
Pražák Quartet:
Jana Vonášková, violin
Marie Fuxová, violin
Josef Klusoň, viola
Jonáš Krejčí, cello

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