Rossini’s setting of the scene of the Stabat Mater-whose text comes from a 13th-century hymn possibly written by Pope Innocent III-comes a century and a quarter after the realization by his compatriot Vivaldi, and it is worlds apart in style as well as time. Stabat Mater, by Gioachino Rossini (1841) There have been many beautiful settings depicting the scene of the Mother of God standing in sorrow at the foot of the cross, but none more beautiful than this by “the Red Priest.” Yet more proof that this composer’s famous concertos are in fact the lesser of his creations.ģ.
It also makes one realize again how revolutionary was Berlioz’s music the Mass was written three years before Beethoven’s death and yet already sounds like a work of post-Beethovenian Romanticism-though its being Berlioz’s music, it resembles no other composer’s work.Ģ. The only part of a mighty Mass that the twenty-year-old (!) composer thought worthy of preserving (the rest of the Mass was reconstructed from orchestral parts discovered in a Belgian attic in the early 1990s), Berlioz’s “Resurrexit” is surely the most stirring realization of Jesus’ resurrection in all of music.
“Resurrexit” from the Messe Solennelle, by Hector Berlioz (1824) Here are ten lesser-known classical works that brilliantly depict the dramatic events of Holy Week and Easter Sunday.ġ. Though Handel’s “Messiah” rightly reigns supreme as the king of music for Easter, there are many other seasonal masterpieces that deserve to be heard more often.
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