Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Stabat mater Stabat mater dolorosa: Grave (duet) 00:00 Cujus animam gementem: Andante amoroso (soprano aria) 03:54 O quam tristis et afflicta: Larghetto (duet) 05:57 Quae moerebat et dolebat: Allegro (alto aria) 08:05 Quis est homo: Largo – Allegro (duet) 10:06 Vidit suum dulcem natum: Tempo giusto (soprano aria) 12:43 Eja mater fons amoris: Andantino (alto aria) 16:21 Fac ut ardeat cor meum: Allegro (duet) 18:35 Sancta mater, istud agas: Tempo giusto (duet) 20:55 Fac, ut portem Christi mortem: Largo (alto aria) 26:23 Inflammatus et accensus: Allegro ma non troppo (duet) 29:49 Quando corpus morietur: Largo assai –Presto assai (duet) 31:53
Dotothea Röschmann, soprano Catherine Robin, mezzo-soprano Les violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, conductor
Stabat Mater is a musical setting of the Stabat Mater sequence, composed by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in 1736, during his final illness from tuberculosis in a Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli, along with a Salve Regina setting. It is scored for soprano and alto soloists, violin I and II, viola and basso continuo (cello and organ). [...] The Stabat Mater is one of Pergolesi's most celebrated sacred works, achieving great popularity after the composer's death. Jean-Jacques Rousseau showed appreciation for the work, praising the opening movement as the most perfect and touching duet to come from the pen of any composer. The work is divided into twelve movements, each named after the incipit of the text. Much of the music is based on Pergolesi's earlier setting of the Dies Irae sequence.