Antonín Dvořák's Stabat Mater, Op. 58 (B. 71), is an extended setting for vocal soloists, choir and orchestra of the 20 stanzas of the Stabat Mater sequence. Dvořák sketched the composition in 1876 and completed it in 1877. It has been characterized as a sacred cantata and as an oratorio, and consists of ten movements of which only the first and the last are thematically connected. Its total performance time is around 85 minutes.
Stabat Mater at St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, 2019
Crucifixion by Evgraf Semenovich Sorokin (1873)
Dress rehearsal for Stabat Mater in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden, on 25 October 2019, with Mary standing under the Cross in the background
Title page of Novello's edition of the score of Dvořák's Stabat Mater: memento of the performance in Worcester on 12 September 1884, with signatures by Antonín Dvořák and members of the orchestra.
Aldo Baldin was a Brazilian classical tenor, known for his interpretations of music by Johann Sebastian Bach. He performed internationally and made many recordings. He was professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe.
Baldin in the role of Idamantes in Morart's Idomeneo
Edith Mathis, Baldin and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau recording Haydn's Die Schöpfung (London, 1980)
Baldin teaching at the Bach Academy of Buenos Aires (1993)