Scoring: Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 1.1.1.1 - 1.0.0.0 - Timp - 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb

Antonín Dvořák’s impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, chorus and orchestra is probably the best-known of the composer’s sacred works. Some painful experiences – in 1875 his first daughter died, and in 1877 he lost two other children in quick succession – may have led to Dvořák’s preoccupation with the suffering of the Mother of God, who stands weeping beneath the cross of her son. The music enters into the different...