Stabat Mater (Pergolesi) - Emma Kirkby

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Stabat Mater de G.B Pergolesi, por la soprano Emma Kirkby

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• soprano
• Kirkby

[Lauritz1]

Ah Kirkby and James Bowman! A great combo. Bowman is a true counter-tenor. Hear how smooth his registers are and how the voice has continuum throughout and doesn't sound like a different person singing when he is in chest, mixed and head registers. Hats off and thumbs up! This is classic!

[bickynkiki]

Heartachingly beautiful. Deeply touched.

[kinslor]

This, for me, is the definitive recording of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. Possibly it is because it is the one I know best, but to my ear no other flows as beautifully as when Kirkby and Bowman sing together. At times their voices are like water as it flows delicately over a waterfall.

[mossplace1]

My first encounters with ealry music was as a teenager in the mid 80's....Emma Kirkby for me holds fond memorys. Through her voiceI i heard Vivaldi and Dowland for the first time and was hooked!.......i think i have since bought every recording she made, but i hold with great regard her recording made with the direction of Christopher Hogwood and the fabulous Acadamy of Ancient Music!........Kirkby's voice is perfection.

[BellezaesDios]

So real and true. Really touching.

[BarrocoeBrahms]

it´s still the best version of this Stabat Mater!! Beautiful!

[flonach]

@bigmandrel

There is sure as hell accounting over taste. There is no accounting over preference tough. Only respect.

[bigmandrel]

@buddybodie There really, really is no accounting for taste. So, no need for an apology...

....you pretentious prat.

[buddybodie]

@bf2019 Thank you for the hint, I didnt know this recording.

I dont have a CD, but after listening the live performance here on youtube I must say, sorry, I disagree. My personal meaning:

Part 1 is too slow for me. And in the next parts both singers sing this piece with too much "pressure", it is too much "opera singing", too much vibrato, too much presenting of "myself" and too few humility.

Recording with Hogwood/Bowman/Kirkby is still my favorite, it has all what this piece needs, sorry...

[bf2019]

@buddybodie 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)

I have loved Emma Kirby and this performance so long....I grew up with this piece...It was my entry in Baroque Vocal Music........

[buddybodie]

I think, this CD with Christopher Hogwood is the best recording of Satbat mater ever made! I love it and never found better recording of this masterpiece...