Unsung Composers

The Music => Recordings & Broadcasts => Topic started by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:20

Title: Jakub Jan Ryba: Stabat Mater
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 16 March 2022, 11:20
Proto-romanticism here, surely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72RME3RRmvA

I don't know the date of composition - perhaps around 1800?

Title: Re: Jakub Jan Ryba: Stabat Mater
Post by: eschiss1 on Wednesday 16 March 2022, 19:31
If it's his Stabat Mater in C minor for four voices, organ and orchestra in Czech or Latin (NemR appendix), there's a manuscript copy at Breznice Library from ca.1820 (apparently made by one Frantisek Vanecek, 1800-56) according to RISM (but with a date-mark "Wanecek 41", so not sure where RISM gets the estimate.). (Then again, the composer died in 1815, so one already knew it was no later than that. Hrm.)
Title: Re: Jakub Jan Ryba: Stabat Mater
Post by: Alan Howe on Wednesday 16 March 2022, 23:13
Thanks, Eric. It sounds as though it should date from later rather than earlier in his life.
Title: Re: Jakub Jan Ryba: Stabat Mater
Post by: mikehopf on Thursday 17 March 2022, 02:52
There is recording of the Stabat Mater on the Nibiru label which came out  in 2018.

Also, the Cello Concerto that Alan mentioned in an earlier post is also available coupled with two of Ryba's Violin Concertos on Cesky Label