Composer: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer: Jodie Devos, Adèle Charvet, Maîtrise de Radio France, Le Concert de la Loge
Conductor: Julien Chauvin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA784
Release: 2022
Size: 914 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater in F Minor, P. 77
01. I. Stabat Mater dolorosa
02. II. Cujus animam gementem
03. III. O quam tristis et afflicta
04. IV. Quae moerebat et dolebat
05. V. Quis est homo qui non fleret
06. VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum
07. VII. Eja, Mater fons amoris
08. VIII. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum
09. IX. Sancta Mater, istud agas
10. X. Fac, ut portem Christi moetem
11. XI. Inflammatus et accensus
12. XII. Quando corpus morietur
13. XIII. Amen
Haydn: Symphony No. 49 in F minor ‘La Passione’
14. I. Adagio
15. II. Allegro di molto
16. III. Menuet – Trio
17. IV. Finale. Presto
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.