Haydn • The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross

Description

The latest recording by award-winning pianist David Jalbert is a piano transcription of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. Originally commissioned as an orchestral work to be performed on Good Friday, The Seven Last Words are a musical rendering of Christ’s final moments as reported by the four evangelists. Following its initial success, Haydn arranged the work for string quartet and later authorized an anonymous transcription for keyboard. The work’s final incarnation as an oratorio emerged in 1796, several years before The Creation and The Seasons.