A rapidly rising star on today’s opera scene, Sonya Yoncheva appears in this album alongside ‘Lyric Artist of the Year’ winner Karine Deshayes in a masterwork of the sacred music repertoire: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Yoncheva has performed on various stages worldwide, most recently in France where she astonished the audience with her performance in both Verdi’s La Traviata and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, and in Montpellier where she sang at the Radio France International Music Festival. "Her voice is gorgeous to listen to. It is always used with penetrating intelligence and supple musicality" (The Times). This recording also features the Ensemble Amarillis on period instruments. Founded in 1994, the Ensemble Amarillis is one of Europe’s most original Baroque ensembles. “The Ensemble Amarillis responds with mercurial temperaments, from sublimely intimate to brazenly flamboyant" (BBC Music Magazine).