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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
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- Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: I. Stabat Mater dolorosaComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
04:48$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: II. Cujus animam gementemComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: II. Cujus animam gementem
01:56$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: III. O quam tristis et dolebatComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: III. O quam tristis et dolebat
01:41$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: IV. Quae moerebat et dolebatComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: IV. Quae moerebat et dolebat
02:15$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: V. Quis est homo qui non fleretComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: V. Quis est homo qui non fleret
02:58$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VI. Vidit suum dulcem natumComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum
02:51$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VII. Eia Mater fons amorisComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VII. Eia Mater fons amoris
01:52$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VIII. Fac ut ardeat cor meumComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: VIII. Fac ut ardeat cor meum
01:52$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: IX. Sancta Mater istud agasComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: IX. Sancta Mater istud agas
04:29$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: X. Fac ut portem Christi mortemComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: X. Fac ut portem Christi mortem
03:47$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: XI. Inflammatus et accensusComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: XI. Inflammatus et accensus
02:00$2.30 - Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: XII. Quando corpus morieturComposer(s) Giovanni Battista PergolesiArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77: XII. Quando corpus morietur
04:41$2.30 - Salve Regina in G Major: I. Salve ReginaComposer(s) Nicola PorporaArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Salve Regina in G Major: I. Salve Regina
03:37$2.30 - Salve Regina in G Major: II. Ad te clamamusComposer(s) Nicola PorporaArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Salve Regina in G Major: II. Ad te clamamus
01:41$2.30 - Salve Regina in G Major: III. Ad te suspiramusComposer(s) Nicola PorporaArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Salve Regina in G Major: III. Ad te suspiramus
02:35$2.30 - Salve Regina in G Major: IV.Eia ergoComposer(s) Nicola PorporaArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Salve Regina in G Major: IV.Eia ergo
02:20$2.30 - Salve Regina in G Major: V. Et JesumComposer(s) Nicola PorporaArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Salve Regina in G Major: V. Et Jesum
02:53$2.30 - Salve Regina in G Major: VI. O clemensComposer(s) Nicola PorporaArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Sandrine Piau Les Talens Lyriques
Salve Regina in G Major: VI. O clemens
03:56$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: I. Beatus virComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: I. Beatus vir
02:52$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: II. Exortum estComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: II. Exortum est
01:00$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: III. MisericorsComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: III. Misericors
01:22$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: IV. Iucundus homoComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: IV. Iucundus homo
03:24$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: V. DispersitComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: V. Dispersit
02:50$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: VI. GloriaComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: VI. Gloria
01:06$2.30 - Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: VII. Sicut eraComposer(s) Leonardo LeoArtist(s) Christophe Rousset Les Talens Lyriques Christopher Lowrey
Beatus vir qui timet in F Major: VII. Sicut era
01:25$2.30
Total running time: 66 minutes.
Album information
Longstanding partners Sandrine Piau and Christophe Rousset have frequently performed the Stabat Mater, an emblematic work of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan repertory, both together and with other musicians. It was therefore a natural step for them to record this supreme masterpiece of sacred music.
They are joined here by a relative newcomer to Les Talens Lyriques who has also become a regular partner with the ensemble, the American countertenor Christopher Lowrey.
The programme is completed by a Beatus vir by Leonardo Leo (1694-1744), sung by Sandrine Piau, and a Salve Regina for alto by Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), two totally unknown works by two composers who were nevertheless very famous at the time – Porpora, for example, was Farinelli’s singing teacher and mentor to the youthful Haydn.
Christophe Rousset finds in this music ‘an expression of very Mediterranean, very highly flavoured piety, in which one moves from tears to laughter quite quickly’. Sandrine Piau sees in Leo ‘an elegance of style, a certain distance in sorrow’.
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Reviews
'Better vocal performances than before and two new and beautiful works are the main attractions of the album.'
Scherzo
'Rousset’s second and far-better recorded version of Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is a must.'
San Francisco Classical Voice
Choral & Song Choice: 'Soprano Sandrine Piau finds just the right balance between beauty of sound and fervent expressivity.'
BBC Music Magazine
'This is where Christophe Rousset’s new reading is unwaveringly focused, lovingly nurtured over time with its studied control of texture and dissonance, and allowing the exquisitely matched Sandrine Piau and Christopher Lowrey the freedom to inhabit Pergolesi’s quicksilver repository of sensuality and colour.'
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