This song trascends religious matters in every of its aspects, even though the theme is clearly religious the music speaks to us in a language that speaks of something way much general, the suffering of a mother, of a dying son. This song expresses human matters in a beautiful and tragic matter, theological apparatus or not.
@derblaueangst Yes! I agree the Emma Kirkby/James Bowman/Acad. Anc Music version has been the awesome standard for years....however I (and many others) think that the recent Vivica Genaux/ Sabina Puertolas/Les Talens Lyriques is simply the best....an AMAZING! perfomance, probably the best ever recorded....(so far)
Touches the soul with its beauty, sublimity, art...the composition is pure genius of Pergolesi, enthralling, haunting, angelic...thank you very kindly for permitting us to view Michaelangelo's Pieta...
Comment rester indifférent devant une telle beauté artistiique...Croyant ou non c'est une oeuvre don je possède je ne sais plus de versions à la maison.
Et chaqne fois chacunes d'elles me vire le coeur à l'envers
This is good. This is True. This is beautiful. The music is so beautiful, the lyrics so pure,and the singing so powerfully pointed that it resembles Longinus' Lance piercing the side of Christ. This Sacred Hymn pierces your heart and reveals what is in your soul. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have Mercy on me, a sinner
i love the paring of andreas scholl and barbara bonney here...i've been listening to cecilia bartoli and june anderson with charles dutoit conducting for years (a great recording) but this sounds totally brand new.
i love the paring of andreas scholl and barbara bonney here...i've been listening to cecilia bartoli and june anderson with charles dutoit conducting (a great recording) for years and this sounds like something brand new.
I get so confused over Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Salve Regina. They appear to begin the same but then the Stabat Mater seems to continue resolve those wonderful supsensions into more glorious majors. Anyone know why the two sound alike (are they from the same mass, is one a rework from the other, etc..? Absolutely Divine nonetheless.)
Once music and art were central to every school's cirriculum. Then came budget cuts...and with it a decline in our culture. Most high school students in America have no idea this music exists. They have never been exposed to it. Sad.
@Carolalwaysfirst Oh, don't forget that student's in general wouldn't be allowed to listen to this anyways because it is religious music and it's not allowed to be played in schools because it's not "politically correct" and may offend someone.
@das1418 "Oh, don't forget that student's in general wouldn't be allowed to listen to this anyways because it is religious music"
If it is the music they are working with, for example in some art class, then it would be fine. It is only if it is in a religious context. Just like you can teach the Bible as part of a literature class or comparative religion but not in an explicitly religious context.
You know, sometimes the "perception" of "erosion of times" reflects little of mass tastes and challenges. For example in my country (Portugal), the only segment growing in CD sales is classic (going up dramatically), obviously and age/ download factor, but the fact that this music is not getting prime time and is not big business does not make it a "non-entity"... it is in fact growing in breadth and depth of knowledge, mostly because of greater assessibility to contents!
I now love this version. I am so surprised it works, with her mega voice / vibrato, but it does! And they blend so well. I got a bit fed-up with the swooping up in my old favourite version. but it's so beautiful and accessible I guess it can withstand many interpretations.
I have to do a work about Stabat Mater for school. Does anyone know if this is the version in C minor? I have this CD at home, and I want to know if this is the right version :)
I really cant believe my ears - the Crystalline Boney sounds "wobbly" before Scholl's flawless vocal line... this is indeed the Gift of the counter tenor in religious music
The oregon symphony and the Portland choir will be preforming this tonight and I will be attending, if anyone else is in the area come on down. sorry if that sounded like a commercial, just wanted to share, Live performance is awesome, I would encourage everyone to see a live show at least once a year.
If such music and, for that matter, ALL GREAT ART were central in our daily lives, rather than emphasis on material wealth, wouldn't we all enjoy perpetual peace, bliss?
@ydraki sadly no, we wouldn't all enjoy perpetual peace, because the world is a marketplace, and people are cattle, and all the great art would come at a price, and we would be paying twice for things that should be free...in theory it is a nice idea, but perpertual peace is not a human possibility until death.
Yes, I did emphasize my wish for ART to be more central in our lives (as you see, I am correcting the "hyperbole" about perpetual bliss I expressed in my original comment). And while I am fully aware of the pragmatic values of wealth, still would prefer to prioritize the ARTS at the core in man's daily life and this only because good ART helps transform MAN on a higher level.
@lukawski100 I appreciate that you brought up Thomas Mann whose work I happen to admire because Mann goes deep into what is not apparent or obvious in man. Mann himself was deeply involved with music, as well as psychoanalysis - you may be interested in reading "Letters of Thomas Mann: 18889 - 1955".
By the way, I will take a fresh look at "Doctor Faustus".
Maybe because Andreas Scholl's early training was in sacred music, he seems more suited to this piece. While she has a lovely voice, I think it is less suited to this than his - it's a bit too "earthy" for such an ethereal piece at times.
@BBQ4everYO I never heard Barbara Bonney's voice described as 'earthy' before - 'sublime' often, 'angelic' frequently, but NEVER 'earthy'. You astonish me.
I don't think that anyone is comparing Bonney with Aretha Franklin - but certainly her voice is not as suited to this as his is. The purity of his voice makes hers sounds heavy. Hardly astonishing.
@Sadurim , perhaps it was written for female voices, but that doesn't mean it was written for Bonney's voice. I think I get what BBQ means - he/she is talking about a voice more like Isabel Bayrakdarian (who also has a background in sacred music). A well trained counter tenor is more appropriate sounding for the piece than a factory soprano.
her voice sounds with much vibratto because he deliberately has vanquished his vibrato thus producing a vocal line that it is hard to believe it is human. Only counters can do this. Fleming was asked to sing "white and vibratoless yet with emotion" in the Lord of the Rings piece and she had replied: "You want me to stop being human" Scholl manages to do exactly this. I think he is the Epitome of the Counter tenor
Sorry to disappoint you, but the work was originally written for 2 male voices - a male soprano and alto. Women were not permitted to sing in church music in Pergolesi's Naples.
@magicminstrel yup, it was written for the castrati tenors. if u anybody doesnt kno wat they r, look it up. u'll be very suprised. idk if u can find it on google but have a look
absolutely amazing. This is one of my melt at the knees pieces of music, performed by two of my favourite singers... simply outstanding! The blend of the voices is perfect... Beautiful!
Is there a similarity in the beginning of Mozart's Requiem and this Stabat Mater? What key is this in? Also there seems to be some cadence in the orchestra that reminds me of the Test that Tamino and Pamina go through near the end of The Magic Flute. I love this music.
In fact you are quite right there Deepfugue.. Mozart's Requiem has inesplicable similarities with the early work of Giambattista Pergolesi... it is a case of musical plagiarism .. Mozart .. kind of 'copied' some parts from Pergolesi stabat mater.
I don´t think that Mozart needed to copy!! They were living roughly during the same time (so similarities are not that uncommon) as the maximum speed of writing music for Mozart was 6 pages of music a day, I really don´t think that he "needed" to copy anybody elses work (o:, ,.....I very much like Stabat Mater, I heart that Pergolesi wrote it on his death bed thus to me it always feels as if he already "sees" into another world, it is unearthly music.
An excellent recording overall. I'm glad it's with strings; the piano reduction really loses the feel. Though I felt some of the ornaments were somewhat ill-advised, it is well performed.
Very true. Strings have a certain quality to imitate the human singing voice. Piano has more of a digital feel. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier and his Art of the Fugue are perfect examples of that.
Absolutely lovely...so nice to hear such amazing voices with Pergolesi which I seem to have only heard before as my daughter's flute exercises, as Czerny was mine for piano. I love this.
The music of today is but a mere shadow of yesterday's glory.
Being in harmony with the infinite and growing spiritually was absolutely essential in those days; man's actions were supposed to reflect God's universal Will and Law...that is why the music was so deep and beautiful back then.
But, in the present day, man has fallen from Unity and his Will has been warped as he has more often than not chosen the crooked path of Discord... that is why today's music is less tasteful.
A tremendously beautiful piece indeed. It seems as though the purified affections and spiritual insights of Pergolesi's time are truly lost. Today's world is extremely corrupted and dishonest due to corporate dominance and mercilessness.
The graceful Men and Women of this music's time truly believed in peaceful contemplation, human destiny and sublime knowledge. The majority of people of that day adored their creator and lived selflessly, but now, man is purchasable and cruel.
One point i'll add is that the true expression of spirituality transcends the creeds and dogmas of religion.
"The majority of people of that day adored their creator and lived selflessly, but now, man is purchasable and cruel." The same was true then, but a high degree of spiritual understanding in music was extremely prevalent then and unfortunately those understandings have been put out of practice in todays day and age. But hopefully after 2012 those teachings will be practised once more.
oh, sory, I accidently spammed your comment, I didn't want it really =( I just wanted to disagree with one phrase of yours: men always were and are purshasable and cruel =)
This is truly great music, but in a time when a flickering lightbulb in an empty room constitutes art, we're conditioned to shy away from saying it. Well I'm not afraid - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears are not respectable from a music perspective (despite the fact that they might be great marketers). But I'm content knowing that in the not too distant future, 'Poker Face' and 'Toxic' will be shadows of a memory whereas Pergolesi's masterpiece will continue to play on.
While I agree with your point, I'd like to point out that even classical music has it's share of "Britney Spears", composers and performers alike. Is it a coincidence that the greatest voice of all time was also the first one to be recorded? Media avalaibility dictates what we listen to, from a very young age. Since my first tapes were with 60's 70's rock and my first CD's were piano concertos, I continue to enjoy both at the same level. And by the way, I owe youtube a great deal :)
@sailingforde04 As a music lover my um, loves run from Bach to Einsterzunde Neubauten to the elegant & original syntheses of sounds in great electronica - some of it as good as any baroque. I don't find it especially sad that a fellow musician prefers modern music , only that more people don't know about it & i can't talk about Pergolesi with them!
there is an element of super-natural in the Voice of Andreas Scholl... what an incredible musician He can actually completely eliminate vibratto from his voice thus producing lines of an unbelievable purity that bring me chills
Andreas Scholl is wonderful, Bonney not really interesting and harmonizing with his baroque tone. Also check the version of Thimoty Brown, with Angharad Gruffydd Jones and Lawrence Zazzo.
Pergolesi wrote this on his deathbed (he died in his midtwenties!), and I think you can hear it in the music. To me this is music that touches the soul deeply and makes you see a door open to another realm as he must have seen and felt it. Very touching music.
this is divine
Pretendkid 2 days ago
This was the last song I heard before the strings program was cut at our school.
MrEnglishMuphin 1 month ago
This song trascends religious matters in every of its aspects, even though the theme is clearly religious the music speaks to us in a language that speaks of something way much general, the suffering of a mother, of a dying son. This song expresses human matters in a beautiful and tragic matter, theological apparatus or not.
jorge1234 2 months ago
I LOVED
KONSEJERAMISTIKA 2 months ago
Nothing compared with the version of Kirkby/Bowman!! it´s still the best
BarrocoeBrahms 3 months ago
Easily one of my favourite performances.
MrIamSamIam2 3 months ago
Scholl is really perfect but I don't like the vibrato of Barbara Bonney. If you want listening to a great interpretation see Emma Kirkby.
derblaueangst 5 months ago 2
@derblaueangst Yes! I agree the Emma Kirkby/James Bowman/Acad. Anc Music version has been the awesome standard for years....however I (and many others) think that the recent Vivica Genaux/ Sabina Puertolas/Les Talens Lyriques is simply the best....an AMAZING! perfomance, probably the best ever recorded....(so far)
bf2019 5 months ago
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derblaueangst 5 months ago
Beautiful.
chloelizlothario 6 months ago
lindooooooooo
essenciademusica 6 months ago
This song casts a spell over me
megardin 7 months ago
Touches the soul with its beauty, sublimity, art...the composition is pure genius of Pergolesi, enthralling, haunting, angelic...thank you very kindly for permitting us to view Michaelangelo's Pieta...
angela44ize 7 months ago
Nice version but I prefer the version of the Ensemble Fratres with Carlos Mena and Maria Espada
Smarb33 8 months ago
ages withered beauty
666caimbirdofhell 8 months ago
Con este verso cantado con esa trama de voces, se entra en otra dimensión
Valvanera36gmailcom 1 year ago
Truly beautiful, regardless of one's metaphysical beliefs.
jismith1989 1 year ago 3
@jismith1989 Isn't it just?
locomotifx 1 year ago
Comment rester indifférent devant une telle beauté artistiique...Croyant ou non c'est une oeuvre don je possède je ne sais plus de versions à la maison.
Et chaqne fois chacunes d'elles me vire le coeur à l'envers
prefixe 1 year ago 3
Ouch... heartbreaking beauty....
Vihor189 1 year ago 2
This is good. This is True. This is beautiful. The music is so beautiful, the lyrics so pure,and the singing so powerfully pointed that it resembles Longinus' Lance piercing the side of Christ. This Sacred Hymn pierces your heart and reveals what is in your soul. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have Mercy on me, a sinner
AlphaCatholic 1 year ago 3
no se si es cosa mia...pero creo escuchar algo de nasalidad en la contralto??
Laauritty 1 year ago
@Laauritty no es una contralto
divacamo 1 year ago
i love the paring of andreas scholl and barbara bonney here...i've been listening to cecilia bartoli and june anderson with charles dutoit conducting for years (a great recording) but this sounds totally brand new.
mrmusicmandg 1 year ago
i love the paring of andreas scholl and barbara bonney here...i've been listening to cecilia bartoli and june anderson with charles dutoit conducting (a great recording) for years and this sounds like something brand new.
mrmusicmandg 1 year ago
The voices don't fit the music. This was written for boys.
ihamoitc2005 1 year ago
@ihamoitc2005 In case you haven't heard, we no longer cultivate *castrati*.
Perkeno 1 year ago
@Perkeno if you didn't notice one of the singers is in fact a man. U don't have to be a castrate
obliviontb 9 months ago
I get so confused over Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Salve Regina. They appear to begin the same but then the Stabat Mater seems to continue resolve those wonderful supsensions into more glorious majors. Anyone know why the two sound alike (are they from the same mass, is one a rework from the other, etc..? Absolutely Divine nonetheless.)
SpittinGlitter 1 year ago
das1418, what's offensive is your utter ignorance.
redchief16 1 year ago
one of the best version for this.
Schwanengesang415 1 year ago
1 word .. wonderful
EricStylianou 1 year ago
fermez les yeux.......
tseai 1 year ago
Superb and at the same time DES GA RRA DOR
arjunamaximo 1 year ago
@arjunamaximo that's baroque music for you
GuiMarquito 1 year ago
Superb! + Des-ga-rra-dor
arjunamaximo 1 year ago
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Andreas Scholl and Barbara Bonney - a Meeting between two Giants, in such a beautiful Music
pashoshkin 1 year ago
Andreas scholl and Barbara Bonney - a Meeting between two Giants, in such a beautiful Music
pashoshkin 1 year ago
Ave Mater Dolorosa
WizArdOZfan42 1 year ago
sansdoute pas assez battu ecoutes le Stabas Mater de vivaldi en entier. Il y a des passage ou l'on peut comprendre Dieu.... Anarchiste qui vielli
caudiere 1 year ago
Stunningly beautiful.
sophelet 1 year ago
Barbara Bonney never disappoints you with her performance, her incredable voice is outstanding.
franklindavid 1 year ago 2
@franklindavid Blithe and bonny.
BuckshotLaFunke 1 year ago
Stunning.
arimaroma 1 year ago
Does anyone know where I can download this one?
NiNo4evaa 1 year ago
Uno di quei casi in cui cerchi le parole ma ti vien soltanto di dire "Grazie".
MrCharlieFandango 1 year ago 3
Once music and art were central to every school's cirriculum. Then came budget cuts...and with it a decline in our culture. Most high school students in America have no idea this music exists. They have never been exposed to it. Sad.
Carolalwaysfirst 1 year ago 28
@Carolalwaysfirst Oh, don't forget that student's in general wouldn't be allowed to listen to this anyways because it is religious music and it's not allowed to be played in schools because it's not "politically correct" and may offend someone.
das1418 1 year ago
@das1418 "Oh, don't forget that student's in general wouldn't be allowed to listen to this anyways because it is religious music"
If it is the music they are working with, for example in some art class, then it would be fine. It is only if it is in a religious context. Just like you can teach the Bible as part of a literature class or comparative religion but not in an explicitly religious context.
mpalssonur 1 year ago 6
Stabat Mater dolorósa
iuxta crucem lacrimósa,
dum pendébat Fílius.
dickface0100 1 year ago
Andreas scholl, you are an inspiration!!!
Guichotpresident 1 year ago 2
@Guichotpresident he is honestly my inspiration!!!
dickface0100 1 year ago
mmmmmmmmm, the suspense is killing me! Love it.
elh666 1 year ago
My cat likes this.He wants me to scratch him when i play this.(from you tube).
vedranaflips 1 year ago 3
when the voices and instruments blend ... wow just wow
JAZZI393049 1 year ago
Awesome! TY for posting this gem.
paulostroff99 1 year ago
You know, sometimes the "perception" of "erosion of times" reflects little of mass tastes and challenges. For example in my country (Portugal), the only segment growing in CD sales is classic (going up dramatically), obviously and age/ download factor, but the fact that this music is not getting prime time and is not big business does not make it a "non-entity"... it is in fact growing in breadth and depth of knowledge, mostly because of greater assessibility to contents!
zezeoli 1 year ago
Master of Calamarca...Ah.
Could it be that someone out there could post some his paintings or documentary about him.Please.P.L.E.A.S.E.
vedranaflips 1 year ago
In regards of younger people that doesn't listen to classical music. If they really appreciate beautiful music they will soon enough though.
SJPatrik 1 year ago
I now love this version. I am so surprised it works, with her mega voice / vibrato, but it does! And they blend so well. I got a bit fed-up with the swooping up in my old favourite version. but it's so beautiful and accessible I guess it can withstand many interpretations.
pianomags 1 year ago
I have to do a work about Stabat Mater for school. Does anyone know if this is the version in C minor? I have this CD at home, and I want to know if this is the right version :)
Thanks!
zahraschue3315 1 year ago
struggente capolavoro d Pergolesi
001miki 1 year ago
mmmmmm there is no words to describe this
julin89 1 year ago 2
MARAVILLOSA♥
FlordelotoenelCielo 1 year ago 2
If i wasnt at work i would be crying right now, beautiful
NornIronLegends 1 year ago
You would think...Unfortunately thats not the case for myself.
injenieus 1 year ago
Preciosa obra de Giovanni, la cual le acompañó en los últimos días de su vida...Lamentable su muerte prematura...:(
juancho5471 1 year ago
please can anyone help me who sings this please:
/watch?v=9UO9ndEFvDE
beccici 1 year ago
amazing
julin89 1 year ago
bravissima !!
loulou31340 1 year ago
Tengo una grabación de este Stabat Mater con esta maravillosa soprano pero con contratenor es mucho mejor, que brutal belleza!!!
quetepique48 1 year ago
I really cant believe my ears - the Crystalline Boney sounds "wobbly" before Scholl's flawless vocal line... this is indeed the Gift of the counter tenor in religious music
LohengrinT 1 year ago
We had to sing this on the radio :P
jenx0x123 1 year ago
Sphera AntiQva from Spain...there you are the answer...
Play it: Ciaccona by Merula. ........The group is Sphera AntiQva
JaimeIsiboro1972 1 year ago
Stunning, absolutely amazing how angelic the human voice can sound. To hear the angels themselves sing would bring us unto our knees.
Christianvirtue 1 year ago 2
The oregon symphony and the Portland choir will be preforming this tonight and I will be attending, if anyone else is in the area come on down. sorry if that sounded like a commercial, just wanted to share, Live performance is awesome, I would encourage everyone to see a live show at least once a year.
quakerninja 1 year ago
Not at least once a year.... at least every time it is humanly possible, if you ask me.
SofiLaRouge 1 year ago
Sholl IMPECCABILE Bonney " LIRICA "
carlobergna 1 year ago 2
If such music and, for that matter, ALL GREAT ART were central in our daily lives, rather than emphasis on material wealth, wouldn't we all enjoy perpetual peace, bliss?
ydraki 2 years ago 88
@ydraki ah, if! We work 'til we're nearly dead, and for what? What's 'Useful'? I'll stick to frivolities like this amazing music, personally, too.
locomotifx 1 year ago
@ydraki -Amen!
paulostroff99 1 year ago
@ydraki sadly no, we wouldn't all enjoy perpetual peace, because the world is a marketplace, and people are cattle, and all the great art would come at a price, and we would be paying twice for things that should be free...in theory it is a nice idea, but perpertual peace is not a human possibility until death.
gorseydog 1 year ago
@ydraki
Unfortunately, without material wealth none of this would be possible. Wealth makes possible the space for art to flourish.
It is however nonetheless beautiful.
Wien1938 5 months ago
@Wien1938 Thanks for your well balanced response.
Yes, I did emphasize my wish for ART to be more central in our lives (as you see, I am correcting the "hyperbole" about perpetual bliss I expressed in my original comment). And while I am fully aware of the pragmatic values of wealth, still would prefer to prioritize the ARTS at the core in man's daily life and this only because good ART helps transform MAN on a higher level.
ydraki 5 months ago
@ydraki The art without God has slowly became trash (the devil's words in thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus"), who cares about culture, really ?
lukawski100 2 months ago
@lukawski100 I appreciate that you brought up Thomas Mann whose work I happen to admire because Mann goes deep into what is not apparent or obvious in man. Mann himself was deeply involved with music, as well as psychoanalysis - you may be interested in reading "Letters of Thomas Mann: 18889 - 1955".
By the way, I will take a fresh look at "Doctor Faustus".
Thanks for responding.
ydraki 2 months ago
@ydraki ...peace und purity of mind, detachment from all material blisses, mystics like Jean de la Croix lived it to the full.
josihie 5 months ago
Beautiful sculptures. Music doesn't need my comment.
ajanekera 2 years ago 6
Andreas Scholl is simply stunning!
Guichotpresident 2 years ago 39
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Sadurim 2 years ago
@Guichotpresident I subscribe!
NomenLog 10 months ago
Wonderful! Scholl's voice sounds just ethereal!
serenaluce 2 years ago 8
:) BELLO
a96577 2 years ago 5
Maybe because Andreas Scholl's early training was in sacred music, he seems more suited to this piece. While she has a lovely voice, I think it is less suited to this than his - it's a bit too "earthy" for such an ethereal piece at times.
BBQ4everYO 2 years ago 3
@BBQ4everYO I never heard Barbara Bonney's voice described as 'earthy' before - 'sublime' often, 'angelic' frequently, but NEVER 'earthy'. You astonish me.
suzypuss 2 years ago
I don't think that anyone is comparing Bonney with Aretha Franklin - but certainly her voice is not as suited to this as his is. The purity of his voice makes hers sounds heavy. Hardly astonishing.
HildegardsVision 2 years ago
BBQ4everYO, I completely agree. Bonney is more suited to traditional operatic soprano roles, not this.
DeepWaterStillness 2 years ago 2
@BBQ4everYO but the piece was written for female voices.....
Sadurim 2 years ago
@Sadurim , perhaps it was written for female voices, but that doesn't mean it was written for Bonney's voice. I think I get what BBQ means - he/she is talking about a voice more like Isabel Bayrakdarian (who also has a background in sacred music). A well trained counter tenor is more appropriate sounding for the piece than a factory soprano.
HildegardsVision 2 years ago 2
....by which I mean Bayrakdarian's voice IS suited to the piece. It sounded clearer in my head...
HildegardsVision 2 years ago
@HildegardsVision I don't like her vibrato. Too much vibrato in her voice,especially for this piece.
rosovavoda 1 year ago
her voice sounds with much vibratto because he deliberately has vanquished his vibrato thus producing a vocal line that it is hard to believe it is human. Only counters can do this. Fleming was asked to sing "white and vibratoless yet with emotion" in the Lord of the Rings piece and she had replied: "You want me to stop being human" Scholl manages to do exactly this. I think he is the Epitome of the Counter tenor
LohengrinT 1 year ago 4
Sorry to disappoint you, but the work was originally written for 2 male voices - a male soprano and alto. Women were not permitted to sing in church music in Pergolesi's Naples.
magicminstrel 2 years ago 5
@magicminstrel i was told otherwise so i had no idea, thanks for the information!
Hugs =)
Sadurim 2 years ago 2
Hey, who cares about this today? Things have moved on; pick the voices that make it shine.
pianomags 1 year ago 2
@magicminstrel yup, it was written for the castrati tenors. if u anybody doesnt kno wat they r, look it up. u'll be very suprised. idk if u can find it on google but have a look
dickface0100 1 year ago
Before my voice went deep, i used to sing soprano on this one. wish i still had my soprano voice :P sopranos simply has the most beautiful voices.
Niklas059 2 years ago 3
I love this rendition; when I listen to it, I can barely breathe, and I am arrested completely by this music.
jenstirrup 2 years ago 5
I love this! Used to sing this with the choir (alt)
annazt11 2 years ago
absolutely amazing. This is one of my melt at the knees pieces of music, performed by two of my favourite singers... simply outstanding! The blend of the voices is perfect... Beautiful!
MrTamzzin 2 years ago 5
Amazing!
galvomax 2 years ago 2
simplemente un dolor de madre sentido por un genio, asi es esta bella obra.
aninon46 2 years ago 2
Barbara Bonney is incredable! she can interpret any composer's work, especially Mozart.
franklindavid 2 years ago 2
Glorious!!! Thanks for uploading.
Dobrib 2 years ago
Is there a similarity in the beginning of Mozart's Requiem and this Stabat Mater? What key is this in? Also there seems to be some cadence in the orchestra that reminds me of the Test that Tamino and Pamina go through near the end of The Magic Flute. I love this music.
deepfugue 2 years ago
Schubert also bssed 'Todtengrabers Hiemweh,' a lied, off the A motif.
Cmac1528 2 years ago
In fact you are quite right there Deepfugue.. Mozart's Requiem has inesplicable similarities with the early work of Giambattista Pergolesi... it is a case of musical plagiarism .. Mozart .. kind of 'copied' some parts from Pergolesi stabat mater.
derekNb02 2 years ago
derekNb02
I don´t think that Mozart needed to copy!! They were living roughly during the same time (so similarities are not that uncommon) as the maximum speed of writing music for Mozart was 6 pages of music a day, I really don´t think that he "needed" to copy anybody elses work (o:, ,.....I very much like Stabat Mater, I heart that Pergolesi wrote it on his death bed thus to me it always feels as if he already "sees" into another world, it is unearthly music.
Greetings
SiggyStern 2 years ago 3
very, very beautiful, thanks
meluzyna55 2 years ago
綺麗な声だ。
ありがとう。
fujicity 2 years ago
An excellent recording overall. I'm glad it's with strings; the piano reduction really loses the feel. Though I felt some of the ornaments were somewhat ill-advised, it is well performed.
erincamilla 2 years ago
Very true. Strings have a certain quality to imitate the human singing voice. Piano has more of a digital feel. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier and his Art of the Fugue are perfect examples of that.
SavingGod 2 years ago 3
depends ofcourse also if you play it on the harpichord or pianoforte.
But it is true, in the end humans respond with the strongest emotion to the human voice... for obvious reasons.
DeHeld8 2 years ago
the pictures are so beautiful) thank you)
4ubaka 2 years ago 2
best version
humpelberry 2 years ago 2
Wonderful version!!
redbaron863 2 years ago 4
magnifique!
lordofthespriella 2 years ago 4
i had in 2002 the occasion to sing this song with my friends in Concert ! unforgettable moment...Thank you to put it on You Tube !
BELLALUNAESTRELLA 2 years ago 2
Grazie, Giovanni, per musica bella Stabat Mater. Molto grazie, mi amicio.
Thank you, Giovanni, for beautiful music such as Stabat Mater. Thank you so much, my friend.
**I hope my Italian wasn't bad....***
Marmalade000000 2 years ago 3
MAGNIFIQUE, très très belle version
audreyadrianne 2 years ago 4
EXQUISITE ¡¡¡¡¡
xtrememusic6 2 years ago
A Beautiful piece of music! Thank you Pergolesi!
1BODGER95 2 years ago 2
absolutely beautiful :)
nocternalninja 2 years ago
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TheEvaCarlson 2 years ago
Non non c'est bien celui de Pergolese.
FayeV 2 years ago
Questa musica mi trasporta verso l'infinito.
soccorritorecosenza 2 years ago 2
The best in you tube!
arcktos92 2 years ago
Angel voices
mahaskey98 2 years ago 4
Absolutely lovely...so nice to hear such amazing voices with Pergolesi which I seem to have only heard before as my daughter's flute exercises, as Czerny was mine for piano. I love this.
ceb2633 2 years ago 2
Scholl is my hero.
0GL 2 years ago 4
Her voice is smooth as Velvet.
franklindavid 2 years ago 4
Merci pour cette merveille .
bene4587 2 years ago 6
A great deal of thanks to Lasultanica for posting this great piece and all the others; your work does not go unnoticed.
WisdomandSolace 2 years ago 3
The music of today is but a mere shadow of yesterday's glory.
Being in harmony with the infinite and growing spiritually was absolutely essential in those days; man's actions were supposed to reflect God's universal Will and Law...that is why the music was so deep and beautiful back then.
But, in the present day, man has fallen from Unity and his Will has been warped as he has more often than not chosen the crooked path of Discord... that is why today's music is less tasteful.
WisdomandSolace 2 years ago 2
A tremendously beautiful piece indeed. It seems as though the purified affections and spiritual insights of Pergolesi's time are truly lost. Today's world is extremely corrupted and dishonest due to corporate dominance and mercilessness.
The graceful Men and Women of this music's time truly believed in peaceful contemplation, human destiny and sublime knowledge. The majority of people of that day adored their creator and lived selflessly, but now, man is purchasable and cruel.
WisdomandSolace 2 years ago 3
One point i'll add is that the true expression of spirituality transcends the creeds and dogmas of religion.
"The majority of people of that day adored their creator and lived selflessly, but now, man is purchasable and cruel." The same was true then, but a high degree of spiritual understanding in music was extremely prevalent then and unfortunately those understandings have been put out of practice in todays day and age. But hopefully after 2012 those teachings will be practised once more.
Silverlin212 2 years ago
oh, sory, I accidently spammed your comment, I didn't want it really =( I just wanted to disagree with one phrase of yours: men always were and are purshasable and cruel =)
4ubaka 2 years ago
Although some pop and rock is more than credible , why dont people appreciate great music like this anymore , its so sad isnt it ?
sailingforde04 2 years ago 10
why? maybe they don't stop to listen.
a little bit sad, indeed. but maybe they think the same
about their favorite music.
: ))))) everything is respectable •.♥.•
but.. I LOVE THIS KIND OF MUSIC : )
thanks for your comment.
lasultanica 2 years ago
This is truly great music, but in a time when a flickering lightbulb in an empty room constitutes art, we're conditioned to shy away from saying it. Well I'm not afraid - Lady Gaga and Britney Spears are not respectable from a music perspective (despite the fact that they might be great marketers). But I'm content knowing that in the not too distant future, 'Poker Face' and 'Toxic' will be shadows of a memory whereas Pergolesi's masterpiece will continue to play on.
kubicam 2 years ago 3
Exactly
Silverlin212 2 years ago
While I agree with your point, I'd like to point out that even classical music has it's share of "Britney Spears", composers and performers alike. Is it a coincidence that the greatest voice of all time was also the first one to be recorded? Media avalaibility dictates what we listen to, from a very young age. Since my first tapes were with 60's 70's rock and my first CD's were piano concertos, I continue to enjoy both at the same level. And by the way, I owe youtube a great deal :)
karamazovnew 2 years ago
@sailingforde04
tamriko50 1 year ago
@sailingforde04 As a music lover my um, loves run from Bach to Einsterzunde Neubauten to the elegant & original syntheses of sounds in great electronica - some of it as good as any baroque. I don't find it especially sad that a fellow musician prefers modern music , only that more people don't know about it & i can't talk about Pergolesi with them!
locomotifx 1 year ago
Was this written for Castrati ?
It is so sublime.
Comus1857 2 years ago
yes, it was
Shogunhotta 2 years ago
God , it's so beautiful! I hope it remains in the state it's in and untouched by any artist.
Sheaxyz 2 years ago 3
Perfect for Good Friday. Absolutely marvellous - and Pergolesi was barely 26 when he wrote it...
SeryiVolk2009 2 years ago 6
So beautiful . . thank you so much for this piece of Holy Week!
Linnath00 2 years ago
thanks for posting this. badly needed for HOLY WEEK. :D
taureantuttzs9169 2 years ago
heavenly!
78thstreet 2 years ago 2
beautiful! I have heard it on the radio and fall in love from the first time) just beautiful.
4ubaka 2 years ago 3
Las elecciones de la Sultanica son excepcionales. La presentaciones inmejorables.
Es un gran servicio a la difusión miusical y al conocimiento de los interpretes. ¡Bravo!
abeleveh 2 years ago
Just beauuuuuuuuuutiful, they blend so well.
franklindavid 2 years ago
there is an element of super-natural in the Voice of Andreas Scholl... what an incredible musician He can actually completely eliminate vibratto from his voice thus producing lines of an unbelievable purity that bring me chills
Lohengrin 2 years ago 3
beautiful!
We are going to perform this with my choir in april! Really looking forward to it!
sweetflowerr 2 years ago
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sweetflowerr 2 years ago
i love andreas scholl :)
adharalozano 2 years ago 3
beatiful
benoitmaur 2 years ago
Andreas Scholl is wonderful, Bonney not really interesting and harmonizing with his baroque tone. Also check the version of Thimoty Brown, with Angharad Gruffydd Jones and Lawrence Zazzo.
vegareve 2 years ago
I thought my heart was going to stop beating there for a second....God, this is beautiful...
endrrahene 2 years ago 5
Pergolesi wrote this on his deathbed (he died in his midtwenties!), and I think you can hear it in the music. To me this is music that touches the soul deeply and makes you see a door open to another realm as he must have seen and felt it. Very touching music.
Siggy
SiggyStern 2 years ago 8
I didn't know that. Sheds new light on the piece. Thanks for sharing!
endrrahene 2 years ago
Damn why don't they make music like this anymore these days?
This piece alone pwns all the pop music of at least the last 30 years.
DeHeld8 3 years ago 12
Hell yeah! :D:D
Leinaah 3 years ago
I find this an ecellent illlostration to the situation of many mothers in Gaza.
soapmaster09 3 years ago 3
So true.
lazord1991 3 years ago 2