Pergolesi - Stabat Mater in F Minor - Mov. 10-11/12

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI (1710-1736)

"Stabat Mater" for soprano, alto, strings and basso continuo in F minor (original version)


10. Fac ut portem Christi mortem - Largo [alto solo]

11. Inflammatus et accensus - Allegro [a due]

Performed by Concerto Italiano
Featuring Gemma Bertagnolli, soprano
Sara Mingardo, contralto
Conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini

*Pergolesi was commisioned in 1734 by the Cavalieri della Vergine dei Dolori to write a new Stabat Mater to replace the now unfashionable one written by Alessandro Scarlatti for the Cavalieri. Pergolesi finished it only a few days before his death. The Stabat Mater became famous throughout Europe and became a symbol of the perfection and universality of the Italian style. Bach even paid homage to it in his motet "Tilge, Hochster, meine Sunden".

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[daniel0azar]

Fac ut portem Christi mortem is just brilliant! I think that this is the most touching recording i've herd so far! And the cadenza starting 3'53" is probably the most beautiful cadenza I've heard in my life! Brilliant idea by Alessandrini and Mingardo.

[HARMONICO101]

Sorry to get back so late, but yes. When I heard that cadenza I thought, "Right, I'm buying this cd!"

[margotlorena]

best version ever.

[gspaulsson]

@HARMONICO101 Schubert died of syphilis

[MehdiCapsI]

@HARMONICO101 Schubert died of the typhoid fever.

[bailharico]

Incredible the low note that Mingardo makes!

[margotlorena]

indeed, it is an excellent arrangement. It was the first time I've heard a woman sing so low, a low D flat actually.

[HARMONICO101]

I just confirmed from a reliable source that it was indeed complications from syphilis. Forgive my innacuracy.

[lafigliaquipiange]

Hallo Harmonico101, you have a fantastic channel. Thank you. I don't know about Pergolesi but Schubert, I learned as a piano student in a Conservatoire, where I was hopelessly bad, died of syphilis complications.

[simonevive]

the tactus is so slow...

[HARMONICO101]

Tuberculosis. Same thing that killed Schubert.