Stabat Mater | Pergolesi - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Stabat Mater | Pergolesi
PROGRAM
ANTONIO VIVALDI Nisi Dominus RV 608 (1713-1717) after Psalm 126 for contralto, strings and basso continuo
ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto for Violin, Strings and Harpsichord in D major RV 208 - "Grosso Mogul" (around 1710)
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI Stabat Mater (1736)
ARTIST
Andrés Gabetta, Musical Director / Violin
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano
Franco Fagioli, countertenor
Cappella gabetta
OTHER PERFORMANCE OF THE "PENTECOST 2019" SERIES
Gala concert · Farinelli & Friends
Oratory · La morte d'Abel
Church Concert · Stabat Mater | Pärt
Concert · Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina
FOR PRODUCTION
In 1735, a young but seriously successful opera composer had to interrupt his career after less than four years and retire from Naples to the nearby spa town of Pozzuoli for recovery. But in vain: a few months later, in March 1736, the only 26-year-old Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died there of tuberculosis. As his swan song applies the famous Stabat Mater, originated in that Franciscan monastery, where he should find his final resting place. The work, written for the ethereal voices of two castrati on a medieval poem about the pain of Mary at the time of Jesus' crucifixion, quickly became a longseller reprinted because of the immediacy of the sentimental expression, which at that time was novel and bold. It was not until the twentieth century that poetry and the truth of the short biography, as well as real and merely attributed compositions, were separated from each other. The fascination of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, however, remains unbroken: two angelic voices make it sound - in memory of the "angelico maestro", as Vincenzo Bellini later admired it.
Subject to change.
ANTONIO VIVALDI Nisi Dominus RV 608 (1713-1717) after Psalm 126 for contralto, strings and basso continuo
ANTONIO VIVALDI Concerto for Violin, Strings and Harpsichord in D major RV 208 - "Grosso Mogul" (around 1710)
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI Stabat Mater (1736)
ARTIST
Andrés Gabetta, Musical Director / Violin
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo soprano
Franco Fagioli, countertenor
Cappella gabetta
OTHER PERFORMANCE OF THE "PENTECOST 2019" SERIES
Gala concert · Farinelli & Friends
Oratory · La morte d'Abel
Church Concert · Stabat Mater | Pärt
Concert · Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina
FOR PRODUCTION
In 1735, a young but seriously successful opera composer had to interrupt his career after less than four years and retire from Naples to the nearby spa town of Pozzuoli for recovery. But in vain: a few months later, in March 1736, the only 26-year-old Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died there of tuberculosis. As his swan song applies the famous Stabat Mater, originated in that Franciscan monastery, where he should find his final resting place. The work, written for the ethereal voices of two castrati on a medieval poem about the pain of Mary at the time of Jesus' crucifixion, quickly became a longseller reprinted because of the immediacy of the sentimental expression, which at that time was novel and bold. It was not until the twentieth century that poetry and the truth of the short biography, as well as real and merely attributed compositions, were separated from each other. The fascination of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, however, remains unbroken: two angelic voices make it sound - in memory of the "angelico maestro", as Vincenzo Bellini later admired it.
Subject to change.
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