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Donceanu

19-03-2015

Felicia Donceanu

About the composer

Felicia Donceanu was born in 1931. She studied composition at the Conservatory of Bucharest. Apart from being a renowned composer, she also writes poetry and makes plastic art. As a composer among her works we can find chamber music, choral music, music for children and classical songs. She received several prizes for her compositions. Her music is poetic, as she is trying to extend the spell of poetry into the music.

About the Stabat Mater

Date: 1994
Performers:

Female Choir and Harp

Length: 5.40 minutes
Particulars:

he work is not divided into sections. The music flows on in a relaxed way, imbedded in the pastoral sounds of the harp. Very easy to listen to.

Textual variations:

The "Analecta"-version of the text is used, but only the first four stanzas. Stanza 3 and 4 are then repeated.

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CD information

CD : Polhymnia – Sacrée et Profane
About this CD:

The CD has no number, as it is not from a commercial company. It is one of the CD’s on which the Polhymnia female choir from Switzerland has recorded some of the music of their repertoire. It was recorded at the Victoria Hall, Geneva, November – December 2000.

Choir: Polhymnia
Conductor: Rachel Székely
Soloists:

Isabelle Martin-Achard, harp

Other works:

Zoltan Kodály: Ave Maria + Vejnemöjnen Muzsikál
Willy Burkhard: Sprüche
Ferenc Farkas: Missa Secunda
Erszébet Szönyi: Sirató
Eric Gaudibert: Intermezzo
Pierre Vellones: Danse Indienne

Code: DONC-01

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