Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Violin Concerto in B flat major
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PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Violin Concerto in B flat major
Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo & Julia Kleiter, Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
[ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 10 November 2009
This is the first volume of a three album all-Pergolesi project, featuring Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado, whets the appetite for succeeding volumes while creating buzz for the commemoration year itself.
25 years after recording the Stabat Mater, Pergolesi's most popular piece, Maestro Abbado unveils his new vision of this sublime score with a cast of splendid singers.
Playing a priceless Guarneri Giuliano Carmignola, winner of Germany's Echo award and the French Diapason d'or, records Pergolesi's Violin Concerto for the first time.
"…the curiously ambivalent Stabat mater, part operatic, part austere. The dark and complex voices of Rachel Harnisch and Sara Mingardo emphasise its dramatic nature. Singing quietly they are profoundly impressive; their duet 'Sancta mater' is heavenly (with Mingardo plumbing extraordinary depths in a closing cadenza), as is the stillness of the final 'Quando corpus'. ...a most enjoyable and revealing disc." (BBC Music)
"The Stabat Mater is the main work, in a striking performance that manages to be at once devotional and operatic. There's a fiery austerity in the conducting and string playing...The real treat here is the Violin Concerto, played with casual sensuality and great elegance by Giuliano Carmignola." (Guardian)
Tracks:
Stabat Mater
Violin Concerto in B flat major
(with Giuliano Carmignola, violin)
Salve Regina in C minor
