Sandrine Piau – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Sandrine Piau – Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:06:09 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Longstanding partners Sandrine Piau and Christophe Rousset have frequently performed the Stabat Mater, an emblematic work of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan repertory, both together and with other musicians. It was therefore a natural step for them to record this supreme masterpiece of sacred music. They are joined here by a relative newcomer to Les Talens Lyriques who has also become a regular partner with the ensemble, the American countertenor Christopher Lowrey (already heard on an Alpha disc devoted to Monteverdi, Alpha 216).

The programme is completed by a Beatus vir by Leonardo Leo (1694-1744), sung by Sandrine Piau, and a Salve Regina for alto by Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), two totally unknown works by two composers who were nevertheless very famous at the time – Porpora, for example, was Farinelli’s singing teacher and mentor to the youthful Haydn. Christophe Rousset finds in this music ‘an expression of very Mediterranean, very highly flavoured piety, in which one moves from tears to laughter quite quickly’. Sandrine Piau sees in Leo ‘an elegance of style, a certain distance in sorrow’.

Tracklist:
01. Sandrine Piau – I. Stabat Mater dolorosa (04:48)
02. Sandrine Piau – II. Cujus animam gementem (01:55)
03. Sandrine Piau – III. O quam tristis et dolebat (01:40)
04. Christopher Lowrey – IV. Quae moerebat et dolebat (02:15)
05. Sandrine Piau – V. Quis est homo qui non fleret (02:57)
06. Sandrine Piau – VI. Vidit suum dulcem natum (02:50)
07. Christopher Lowrey – VII. Eia Mater fons amoris (01:52)
08. Sandrine Piau – VIII. Fac ut ardeat cor meum (01:52)
09. Sandrine Piau – IX. Sancta Mater istud agas (04:28)
10. Christopher Lowrey – X. Fac ut portem Christi mortem (03:47)
11. Sandrine Piau – XI. Inflammatus et accensus (01:59)
12. Sandrine Piau – XII. Quando corpus morietur (04:41)
13. Sandrine Piau – I. Salve Regina (03:36)
14. Sandrine Piau – II. Ad te clamamus (01:41)
15. Sandrine Piau – III. Ad te suspiramus (02:35)
16. Sandrine Piau – IV.Eia ergo (02:19)
17. Sandrine Piau – V. Et Jesum (02:52)
18. Sandrine Piau – VI. O clemens (03:55)
19. Christopher Lowrey – I. Beatus vir (02:51)
20. Christopher Lowrey – II. Exortum est (01:00)
21. Christopher Lowrey – III. Misericors (01:21)
22. Christopher Lowrey – IV. Iucundus homo (03:23)
23. Christopher Lowrey – V. Dispersit (02:49)
24. Christopher Lowrey – VI. Gloria (01:05)
25. Christopher Lowrey – VII. Sicut era (01:24)

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