K 103, Stabat Mater, Madrider Messe

16 03 2007

K 103 (L 233) in G-Dur, Allegrissimo. Perlende mit Trillern versehene Läufe, von gelegentlichen Dissonanzen etwas in Schwebe gehalten.

Ein wunderschönes Vokalalbum ist "Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat mater a dieci voci”. Aufgenommen von Rinaldo Alessandrini und Concerto Italiano (© 1999 Naïve / Opus 111 OP 30248). Ein zehnköpfiger Chor singt Stabat Mater (a dieci voci e basso continuo) und die Missa quatuor vocum, auch Madrider Messe genannt. Roberto Pagano schreibt im Begleitheft: "...Domenico Scarlatti takes a unique position; he conceived his Stabat Mater as a ‘return to the past’, and structured it polyphonically, using ten voices, but without recourse to the technique of two antiphonal blocks. ... Latching on to archaic traditions is Scarlatti´s starting point, but the fact that he treats the ten voices completely independently (they double up in five parts in only two sections) and has decided not to use the traditional antiphonal opposition of two five-part groups mentioned above, indicates a deliberate intention to explore unusual paths more than ever neglected by his contemporaries, whether opera composers or not.” Obwohl vierstimmig, wurde die Messe mit dem gesamten Chor aufgenommen. Rinaldo Alessandrini begründet es so: "The Madrid Mass, originally written for four voices, was here recorded using two choirs in unison, laid out in varying dispositions in the course of the work. Diverse sources, especially from Rome, testify this usage. It is even possible that the mass may have been performed in this way by Scarlatti himself. This arrangement of several choirs in unison adds a spatial element to the performance, generating a façade of sound from multiple sources, and creating a greater number of combinations of sonority thanks to the diversity of timbre of the singers.”