Jodie Devos, Adèle Charvet and Julien Chauvin - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century – Rousseau called its first movement "the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer". There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. It was performed more than eighty times at the Concert Spirituel in Paris between 1753 and 1790, in multiple versions, probably also with the participation of a choir.
After consulting several manuscripts and editions held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Julien Chauvin has chosen to record it with soprano and mezzo soloists (the equivalent of the French dessus and bas-dessus) and a two-part children’s choir: "The choir can play a real role in the narration of a so powerful and poignant text", he says. This recording teams two emblematic singers of the Alpha label with the excellent Maîtrise de Radio France, of which Adèle was a member as a girl. To complement the Neapolitan masterpiece, we have a ‘sacred’ symphony by Haydn, La Passione, probably written for Good Friday, and in the same key as the Stabat.

TRACKLIST

01. Maîtrise de Radio France - I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
02. Le Concert de la Loge - II. Cujus animam gementem
03. Maîtrise de Radio France - III. O quam tristis et afflicta
04. Le Concert de la Loge - IV. Quae moerebat et dolebat
05. Maîtrise de Radio France - V. Quis est homo qui non fleret
06. Maîtrise de Radio France - VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum
07. Maîtrise de Radio France - VII. Eja, Mater fons amoris
08. Maîtrise de Radio France - VIII. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum
09. Maîtrise de Radio France - IX. Sancta Mater, istud agas
10. Le Concert de la Loge - X. Fac, ut portem Christi moetem
11. Maîtrise de Radio France - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P.77: XI. Inflammatus et accensus
12. Le Concert de la Loge - XII. Quando corpus morietur
13. Maîtrise de Radio France - XIII. Amen
14. Le Concert de la Loge - I. Adagio
15. Le Concert de la Loge - II. Allegro di molto
16. Le Concert de la Loge - III. Menuet - Trio
17. Le Concert de la Loge - IV. Finale. Presto



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