Boccherini / d’Astorga - Stabat Mater
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Label: Hyperion - Helios
Cat No: CDH55287
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 2nd March 2015
Contents
Artists
Susan Gritton (soprano)Sarah Fox (soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
King’s Consort
Conductor
Robert KingWorks
Stabat MaterStabat Mater
Artists
Susan Gritton (soprano)Sarah Fox (soprano)
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Agnew (tenor)
Peter Harvey (bass)
King’s Consort
Conductor
Robert KingAbout
Boccherini wrote very little vocal music, but he left two settings of the Stabat mater. He set it first in 1781 for solo soprano and strings and then in 1800 for two sopranos and tenor, and was clearly influenced by the hugely popular Pergolesi Stabat mater of 1736. There are many similarities in the notation and harmony - even the same key of F minor is used. The writing is of extraordinary individuality, seeming to come straight from the heart.
Emanuele d’Astorga was one of the more colourful figures of early eighteenth-century music, his life the stuff of subject of legend as much as of fact. Over 150 chamber cantatas survive, but by far his most enduring work has proved to be this setting of the Stabat mater, his only known sacred composition. Throughout it we hear Astorga’s gift for writing warm melodies, typical of the Neapolitan style of the time, which movingly capture the melancholy of this most desolate of sacred texts.
‘Remarkable and beautiful settings’ - Gramophone
‘Heart-melting … full of grace and beauty’ - BBC Music Magazine
‘Outstanding performances’ - American Record Guide
‘In both works, the solo voices, strings and organ continuo and the 18-voice chorus in the d’Astorga, present this well-conceived programme in a highly attractive and stylistic manner under the expert direction of Robert King, while the recorded sound is wonderfully transparent … it would be difficult to imagine more satisfactory interpretations than these’ - Gramophone Early Music
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