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Pergolesi - Stabat Mater; Salve Regina | Brilliant Classics 93952

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater; Salve Regina

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Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93952

Barcode: 5028421939520

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 24th August 2009

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Contents

Artists

Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano)
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Timothy Brown (organ)
Zazzo Instrumental Ensemble

Conductor

Timothy Brown

Works

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista

Salve Regina in C minor
Stabat Mater

Artists

Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano)
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Timothy Brown (organ)
Zazzo Instrumental Ensemble

Conductor

Timothy Brown

About

During his short life of 26 years, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi produced two works that have ensured his name lives on as one of the great Baroque composers: the comic opera La serva padrona (The Maid as Mistress) and the Stabat Mater recorded on this CD.

He wrote much more music – sadly the bulk of this is lost and, after his death, the heavy demand for his music lead to publishers passing off works by lesser composers as being by Pergolesi. Recent study has suggested that of the 150 works published in his name, only about one in five is a genuine Pergolesi.

The Stabat Mater was composed in the last two months of his life, in 1736 at the Franciscan monastery near Pozzuoli. Initially the work attracted criticism, as it cast conventional religious musical styles aside, and, to many listeners, it sounded more like operatic music set to a religious text. It is possible to detect the world of opera in some of the numbers, but the critics were being unfair. The predominating minor key gives the work a serious character, befitting the text. What Pergolesi achieved was to tie music and text together in an emotional bond that is both very effective and touching.

The work was published with many examples of the tampering that afflicted much of Pergolesi’s music. For example, oboes were added to the score. This recording is of the original version.

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