WILLIAM HAYES The Passions. An Ode for Music Oxford, 1750
GCD 922501 1 CD. Digipak, 60-page booklet
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Performing artists
Chor der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis La Cetra Barockorchester Basel Anthony Rooley
Evelyn Tubb, soprano Ulrike Hofbauer, soprano Sumihito Uesugi, countertenor David Munderloh, tenor Lisandro Abadie, bass
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Total playing time 75:43 Recorded in the Volkshaus Basel (Switzerland) in October 2008 Recording producer: Andreas Neubronner Balance engineer: Christian Starke Executive producers: Thomas Drescher, Meinrad Schweizer, Carlos Céster Design: Valentín Iglesias Booklet essays: Simon Heighes, Anthony RooleyEnglish Français Deutsch Español
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WILLIAM HAYES (1708-1777)
The Passions. An Ode for Music (1750)Text by William Collins
First Part
1 Ouverture (Larghetto - Allegro) 2 Aria (Andante) 3 Aria (Allegro) 4 Recitativo accompagnato “When music, heav’nly maid, was young” 5 Song (Fear) “First Fear his hand” (Andante) 6 Song (Anger) “Next Anger rushed” (Allegro) 7 Song (Despair) “With woeful measures” (Largo) 8 Recitativo “But thou, O Hope” 9 Song (Hope) “Still it whispered promised pleasure” (Andante moderato) 10 Recitativo “And longer had she sung” 11 Song (Revenge) “He threw his blood-stained sword”12 Chorus “Revenge impatient rose”
Second Part
13 Symphony (Spiritoso - Allegro) 14 Recitativo “Thy numbers, Jealousy” 15 Song ( Jealousy) “Of differing themes” (Andante Largo - Allegro…) 16 Song (Melancholy) “With eyes upraised” 17 Recitativo “But Oh, how altered” 18 Song (Cheerfulness & Chorus) “When Cheerfulness” (Andante) 19 Recitativo “Last came Joy” 20 Song ( Joy & Chorus) “He with viney crown advancing” (Vivace) 21 Recitativo accompagnato “But ah! Madness away” 22 Song (Reason) “In vain each seeks” (Larghetto) 23 Chorus “Thy wide extended power” (Andante Largo - Tempo ordinario)
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En un momento único del Siglo de las Luces (exactamente en su ecuador, el 6 de julio de 1750) se producía en Oxford, con motivo de una celebración universitaria, el estreno de una composición de William Hayes sobre un conocido texto humanista: The Passions, An Ode for Music (escrito en 1746 por William Collins).
El estudio pormenorizado de las pasiones y los sentimientos humanos era en aquellos tiempos un tema omnipresente en el mundo de la ciencia y en el arte. Con este trasfondo, la poesía de Collins y la música de Hayes se combinan para crear una obra sorprendente que denota un profundo conocimiento de la naturaleza humana, repleta de referencias filosóficas y con un fino sentido del humor (británico). El resultado es un «oratorio dramático» de la máxima calidad musical, que combina el lenguaje del último barroco con elementos del estilo galante e incluso permite vislumbrar la llegada del clasicismo. En una serie de mini-escenas siempre sorprendentes y novedosas, diez «pasiones» se enzarzan en teatrales disputas (entre ellas el Miedo, la Venganza, la Melancolía, la Esperanza y la Alegría).
Anthony Rooley ha redescubierto esta significativa obra y la interpreta aquí con solistas y conjuntos relacionados estrechamente con la Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, en la primera entrega de una nueva colección discográfica impulsada por Glossa y la institución suiza, el centro de formación e investigación más importante en el campo de la música antigua.
It is not only discerning music lovers around the globe who are giving a warm welcome to the recordings which are being published on Glossa; critical approval in the specialist media has been joining in as well. One example of the latter is the newly-instigated International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) which, for its inaugural 2011 edition, has chosen no less than nine of Glossa’s recent releases in its initial nominations. [read more...]
There could be no neater way of expressing how the educational aims of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis can be realized today than the recent recording on Glossa of The Passions by William Hayes, with a member of the faculty in Anthony Rooley conducting choral and orchestral forces drawn from the Schola and with soloists who have been students there (or who also teach there like Evelyn Tubb). [read more...]
Central to the research into and the performance of early music since the beginnings of the renewed interest into music from previous centuries the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (SCB) remains an extraordinary powerhouse of talent ranging over music from the early Middle Ages through to the 19th century. Today its pupils are legion, as too are its teachers, amply fulfilling the aspirations of Paul Sacher when he founded the institution in Switzerland in 1933. In an agreement recently made between Glossa and the SCB fresh new life is being breathed into the desire to bring the fruits of all this musical activity to a much wider worldwide audience through recordings. [read more...]