Rafael Ruiberriz De Torres: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, 1840 version for Flute - COMPACT DISCS

Rafael Ruiberriz De Torres: The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, 1840 version for Flute - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, 1840 version for Flute

Artist:

Rafael Ruiberriz De Torres

Label:

Brilliant Classics

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5028421966595

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2022-11-18

Number of Discs:

1

After Haydn composed The Seven Last Words for chamber orchestra as a devotional accompaniment to the Good Friday liturgy at Cadiz Cathedral in 1786, several other arrangements were made during his lifetime, by himself and others, all of them familiar to us now: as an oratorio with soloists and chorus, and in string quartet and solo keyboard transcriptions. The cycle continued to attract arrangers after Haydn's death. In the course of researching them, the flautist Rafael Ruibérriz de Torres turned up a manuscript by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, who transcribed it for flute and string quartet in 1840 - perhaps as a compositional exercise at the behest of his teacher, Ramon Carnicer, who had recently produced a flute quintet of his own. In any case, Barbieri's arrangement presents a Romantic-era conception of Haydn's work in which the flute part acquires the same importance as the other instruments, lending color and brilliance to the quartet parts. At points the flute line plays in unison with one or other of the strings (almost throughout Sonata II, for example), but elsewhere his melodic and contrapuntal contributions are woven into the fabric of Haydn's score with masterly technique and no small measure of creative inspiration.

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