Stabat Mater

Framing Pergolesi’s renowned Stabat Mater with rarer pages, this concert revives the full sensitivity of the Neapolitan Baroque School, which shone as brightly in the theatre as in the church at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.

A work by a composer of just 26, dying from tuberculosis, the Stabat Mater fervently evokes the Virgin Mary at the foot of the Cross. The Virgin is also central to the prayer Salve Regina, which the Neapolitan School often enriched with orchestral accompaniment, as seen in works by Domenico Scarlatti or Leonardo Leo. Francesco Durante, Leo’s successor at the Conservatorio Sant’Onofrio in Naples, developed the concerto genre toward the new galant style, for instance in his Concerto No. 5 in A major. Pietro Locatelli’s Sinfonia funebre moves the listener with its introductory Lamento and final Consolation.

To give musical voice to these deeply human emotions, Le Concert d’Astrée will be joined by two outstanding bel canto singers, soprano Emőke Baráth and countertenor Carlo Vistoli, under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm.

Direction musicale et orgue Emmanuelle Haïm
Le Concert d’Astrée

Soprano Emőke Baráth
Contre-ténor Carlo Vistoli

Retrouvez les biographies et l’actualité des artistes : 
Le Concert d’Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm 
Emőke Baráth
Carlo Vistoli

^{Photo © Caroline Doutre}

Francesco Durante
Concerto pour cordes n° 5 en la majeur

Domenico Scarlatti
Salve Regina pour alto et cordes en la majeur

Leonardo Leo
Salve Regina pour soprano et cordes en fa majeur

Pietro Antonio Locatelli
Sinfonia funebre en fa mineur

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat Mater pour soprano, alto et cordes en fa mineur