Pergolesi’s Stabat mater is a transcendently beautiful and deeply personal musical meditation on suffering and redemption, written by the 26-year-old composer as he himself lay dying. The composer of ...

It was a Sunday morning in the south of France, and the beautifully sorrowful notes of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater" rang out from a young man's trombone. Antoine Plante was only 15 ...

Pergolesi's setting of the Stabat mater was commissioned, probably by the Neapolitan brotherhood of the Cavalieri della Vergine dei dolori, to replace an earlier one by Alessandro Scarlatti. While ...

Historical ensemble Figure and an excellent cast explore grief, compassion and hope through five women representing multiple generations Performed by Figure, and the brainchild of the ensemble’s ...

Pergolesi, Palestrina and Offenbach are all composers with names adopted from their home towns. In Offenbach’s case, it was his father who took the name of the small city near Frankfurt. For Pergolesi ...

There's much more to Pergolesi than his famous Stabat Mater and, even though this stupendous disc opens with one of the great recordings of that work, it's the two psalm settings, the monumental ...

Ivan Hewett reviews Pergolesi: Stabat Mater , performed by Sandrine Piau (soprano), Christopher Lowrey (counter-tenor) and Les Talens Lyriques, directed by Christophe Rousset Few pieces have such a ...

The selling point is not so much Pergolesi as Anna Netrebko. Her soprano may not be classically Italianate, but you have to applaud the Russian diva’s willingness to venture from the safety of the ...

He lived fast and died young and after his death became world famous like no other musician before him. No it's not Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain but Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Hello I'm Geoff Wood ...

The impact of the 18th-century choral reworking of a 13th-century hymn about the Virgin Mary's sorrow at the cross. From 2013. Show more The Stabat Mater's imagines the sufferings of the Virgin Mary ...