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Pergolesi - Stabat Mater for soprano, alto, strings and continuo | Tactus TC711603

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater for soprano, alto, strings and continuo

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC711603

Barcode: 8007194103526

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 25th February 2008

Contents

Artists

Bettina Rubortone (soprano)
Chiarastella Onorati (alto)
Orchestra da Camera Benedetto Marcello

Works

Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista

Stabat Mater

Artists

Bettina Rubortone (soprano)
Chiarastella Onorati (alto)
Orchestra da Camera Benedetto Marcello

About

“Adept at expressing a sense of mockery and ridicule”. With these words, Padre Martini pronounced judgment upon Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in his Esemplare ossia saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto sul canto fermo of 1774-75. A condemnation in which the diatribe over the “stile da chiesa” which occupied generations of composers, theoreticians and pedagogues in the 18th century reached new heights as it rubbed against a work already hailed throughout Europe as a masterpiece - a masterpiece which epitomized a way of expressing the sacred in music, seen at this time to be unique to modern spirituality.

This awareness alone was responsible for the enormous success which Pergolesi’s sequence would enjoy for the rest of the eighteenth century and beyond. Its legendary status was undoubtedly nurtured by the aura of pathos which colours the composer’s last work, as well as by his premature death, elements which heavily influenced minds already leaning toward “Rousseau-like” sentiments.

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