Joseph Haydn - Seven Last Words From the Cross: Sonata Seven - Navarra Quartet

Joseph Haydn's 'Seven Last Words from the Cross' - Sonata Seven - as performed by the Navarra Quartet.

The words are:
'In manus tuas, Domine, commendo spiritum meum'
'Father, into your hands I commit my spirit' (Luke 23.46)

Haydn's remarkable string quartet cycle was composed for the Lenten liturgy at Spain's Cádiz Cathedral in 1787: each slow movement was to follow a sermon on one of the dying Christ's last sayings in the gospels.

This performance was a part of the 2009 City of London Festival and took place in the Church of St. Stephen, Walbrook, on the 26th of June 2009.

The Navarra Quartet consist of: Xander van Vliet (Violin), Marije Ploemacher (Violin), Simone van der Giessen (Viola), Nathaniel Boyd (Cello).

For more information, please visit the following websites:
- http://www.navarra.co.uk/
- http://www.colf.org/
- http://www.maybeor.com/
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