Pavesi: Dies irae concertato
Series: 19th and Early 20th Centuries Publisher: A-R Editions
Dies irae concertato
Edited by Rey M. Longyear
N025 Pavesi: Dies irae concertato
978-0-89579-401-7
Full Score (1998)
9x12, xi + 183 pp.
$80.00
SKU
N025
Performance Parts (Available Separately)
N025R
Rental Parts (2015)
Set of 37 parts: 2221 2210 timp. 66443 chorus, errata
Pavesi's Dies irae concertato, composed in 1818, is a complete setting of the Dies irae text for chorus, soloists, and orchestra. The work is divided into nine set-numbers, five of which feature the chorus and four of which are solo arias (for soprano, tenor, alto, and bass in turn). Particularly impressive are the arias for tenor and bass, each of which features an instrumental obbligato line (for clarinet and viola, respectively). The opening "Dies irae" movement features a storm topos familiar from operas such as Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, Mozart's Idomeneo, and Cherubini's Eliza. The finale is exclusively devoted to the text "Amen," opening with an extensive and highly-developed double fugue. The ensuing allegro resembles in expression the "dona nobis pacem" of the classical-era mass and provides a lieto fine to this extraordinary composition, perhaps the most significant piece of Italian church music to be composed between the Stabat mater settings of Boccherini (1800; rev. 1801) and Rossini (1833; rev. 1842). Winner of the MPA Paul Revere Award, 1998.
Dies irae
Tuba mirum
Quid sum miser
Rex tremendae
Juste judex
Inter oves
Confutatis
Oro supplex
Finale