Michael Hofstetter, Neumeyer Consort - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Laudate pueri (2012)
Michael Hofstetter, Neumeyer Consort, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Terry Wey - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Laudate pueri (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 56:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Oehms Classics | # OC 831 | Recorded: 2011
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 270 Mb | Total time: 56:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Oehms Classics | # OC 831 | Recorded: 2011
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, his achingly lovely swan song, was most likely written with two male singers in mind. Yet it's not often recorded that way, and the present release, with a genuine male soprano and alto, represents something rarer still, perhaps because not a lot of male singers can pull off the higher ranges convincingly without belting. Both the singers are billed as countertenors on the album, but Romanian-born Valer Barna-Sabadus, who looks like he just stepped out of a rock & roll dive, is a true soprano. Check out his soaring lines in the "Cujus animan," track 2, for the real news on this album. It's not that he delivers operatic power; plenty of countertenors can do that. It's the lightness and balance – even a certain soberness – that fit the work to its intended church ambiance. He can certainly execute the blooming operatic style, which he deploys to perfectly good effect in the choral psalm "Laudate Pueri Dominum," which rounds out the album; it's that he doesn't feel it's appropriate to this particular work. Barna-Sabadus' duets with male alto Terry Wey are gracefully restrained and deeply spiritual. The Neumeyer Consort under Michael Hofstetter, playing historical instruments, keeps the singers front and center but accompanies them sensitively. There are certainly other recordings of the Stabat Mater with greater sentiment, and arguably greater emotional impact, but for sheer vocal beauty and for original use of the male high voice this one is hard to top. Oehms' engineering, as usual, is crystal clear and beautifully attuned to the music, which was recorded in an auditorium at the music school of the University of Mainz.–James Manheim
Performer:
Valer Barna-Sabadus, countertenor
Terry Wey, countertenor
Neumeyer Consort
Ensemble Barock Vokal, Mainz
Michael Hofstetter, conductor
Tracklist:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Stabat Mater
01. Stabat Mater
02. Cujus animam
03. O quam tristis
04. Quae moerebat
05. Quis est homo
06. Vidit suum
07. Eia mater
08. Fac ut ardeat
09. Sancta mater
10. Fac ut portem
11. Inflammatus
12. Quando corpus
Laudate pueri Dominum, Psalm 112
13. Laudate pueri
14. A solis ortu
15. Excelsus super omnes
16. Quis sicut Dominus
17. Suscitans a terra
18. Gloria Patri
19. Sicut erat in principio
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
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Valer Barna-Sabadus, Terry Wey, Neumeyer Consort & Ensemble Barock Vokal Mainz, Michael Hofstetter / Pergolesi - Stabat Mater & Laudate Pueri Dominum
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Michael Hofstetter, Neumeyer Consort - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Laudate pueri (2012)
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