Jodie Devos, Adèle Charvet, Julien Chauvin – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:20 minutes | 915 MB | Genre: Classical
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Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater has enjoyed enormous fame ever since the eighteenth century – Rousseau called its first movement “the most perfect and touching that has ever come from the pen of any composer”. There were many arrangements of the work, by Bach or Hiller among others. It was performed more than eighty times at the Concert Spirituel in Paris between 1753 and 1790, in multiple versions, probably also with the participation of a choir.
After consulting several manuscripts and editions held at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Julien Chauvin has chosen to record it with soprano and mezzo soloists (the equivalent of the French dessus and bas-dessus) and a two-part children’s choir: “The choir can play a real role in the narration of a so powerful and poignant text”, he says. This recording teams two emblematic singers of the Alpha label with the excellent Maîtrise de Radio France, of which Adèle was a member as a girl. To complement the Neapolitan masterpiece, we have a ‘sacred’ symphony by Haydn, La Passione, probably written for Good Friday, and in the same key as the Stabat.
Tracklist:
01. Maîtrise de Radio France – I. Stabat Mater dolorosa (04:04)
02. Le Concert de la Loge – II. Cujus animam gementem (02:00)
03. Maîtrise de Radio France – III. O quam tristis et afflicta (01:48)
04. Le Concert de la Loge – IV. Quae moerebat et dolebat (02:04)
05. Maîtrise de Radio France – V. Quis est homo qui non fleret (02:31)
06. Maîtrise de Radio France – VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum (03:44)
07. Maîtrise de Radio France – VII. Eja, Mater fons amoris (02:03)
08. Maîtrise de Radio France – VIII. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum (01:56)
09. Maîtrise de Radio France – IX. Sancta Mater, istud agas (05:05)
10. Le Concert de la Loge – X. Fac, ut portem Christi moetem (03:20)
11. Maîtrise de Radio France – Stabat Mater in F Minor, P.77: XI. Inflammatus et accensus (01:56)
12. Le Concert de la Loge – XII. Quando corpus morietur (03:38)
13. Maîtrise de Radio France – XIII. Amen (01:05)
14. Le Concert de la Loge – I. Adagio (07:20)
15. Le Concert de la Loge – II. Allegro di molto (04:06)
16. Le Concert de la Loge – III. Menuet – Trio (03:41)
17. Le Concert de la Loge – IV. Finale. Presto (02:52)
