Description
Title: Tuma: Vesperae
Artist: Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma
Label: Supraphon
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 099925435226
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-02-28
Number of Discs: 1
Tuma was a renowned mid-18th-century Vienna musical figure. He was primarily lauded for his sacred works, written either in the strict polyphonic stile antico or in the more modern figural style. The current album, a new instalment in Czech Ensemble Baroque”s series of Tuma recordings, focuses on specific types of liturgical pieces from the composer”s later creative period. The lustre of the vespers and litanies (Vesperae de confessore, Litaniae Reginae martyrum), designated for performance on major feast days, is enhanced by natural trumpets and timpani. The album includes one of Tuma”s eight surviving settings of the famous medieval sequence Stabat Mater. Furthermore, the composer wrote a great many instrumental pieces in which he applied elements of the modern galant style, while also embracing techniques characteristic of Italian and French music. The grandiose and lavishly instrumented Ouverture in C contrasts starkly with the more modest Sinfonia in d, based on the Neapolitan opera sinfonia, and the Partita in g, which, just like Stabat Mater, have survived within a music collection in Vienna. The pieces Tuma wrote during his late creative phase provide ample proof of his compositional mastery and ability to blend the old and new stylistic trends, with the result being remarkable sacred and instrumental music. With the exception of Stabat Mater, Czech Ensemble Baroque present all the works featured on this album in modern-day premiere. Tuma”s meridian sacred and instrumental pieces – more gems in modern-day premiere
Tracks:
1.1 Ouverture in C~I. Ouverture – Fuga – Adagio – Fuga da capo
1.2 Ouverture in C~II. Menuet – Trio (Polonese) – Menuet da capo
1.3 Vesperæ de confessore~Dixit Dominus
1.4 Vesperæ de confessore~Confitebor tibi Domine
1.5 Vesperæ de confessore~Beatus vir
1.6 Vesperæ de confessore~Laudate pueri
1.7 Vesperæ de confessore~Laudate Dominum
1.8 Vesperæ de confessore~Magnificat
1.9 Sinfonia in d~I. Largo
1.10 Sinfonia in d~II. Allegretto
1.11 Sinfonia in d~III. Andante
1.12 Sinfonia in d~IV. Moderato
1.13 Stabat Mater~Stabat Mater
1.14 Stabat Mater~O quam tristis
1.15 Stabat Mater~Quis est homo
1.16 Stabat Mater~Sancta Mater
1.17 Stabat Mater~Fac me tecum
1.18 Stabat Mater~Fac me plagis
1.19 Partita in g~I. Grave – Allegro – Grave
1.20 Partita in g~II. Allegro
1.21 Partita in g~III. Menuet
1.22 Partita in g~IV. Allegro
1.23 Litaniæ Reginæ Martyrum~Kyrie eleison
1.24 Litaniæ Reginæ Martyrum~Sancta Maria
1.25 Litaniæ Reginæ Martyrum~Speculum iustitiæ
1.26 Litaniæ Reginæ Martyrum~Salus infirmorum
1.27 Litaniæ Reginæ Martyrum~Agnus Dei
