Project description
The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour On the Cross (German: Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze) is an orchestral work by Joseph Haydn, commissioned in 1783 for the Good Friday service at Oratorio de la Santa Cueva (Holy Cave Oratory) in Cádiz, Spain. Published in 1787 and performed then in Paris, Berlin and Vienna, the composer adapted it in 1787 for string quartet and in 1796 as an oratorio.
Program:
1. Introdutione
2. Pater, dimitte illis, quia nesciunt, quid faciunt
3. Hodie mecum eris in paradiso
5. Mulier, ecce filius tuus
6. Deus meus, Deus meus, utquid dereliquisti me
7. Sitio
8. Consummatum est
9. In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum
This program is played also with theatre performance. Length of this program is approximately 60 min.
