Pergolesi: Stabat mater & Salve regina

Join Gillian Fisher and Michael Chance as they get straight to the soul of Pergolesi’s glorious Stabat mater, whose opening bars were described (in 1754) as being ‘the most perfect and most touching to have come from the pen of any musician’.

 

This seminal album was hailed by Gramophone as being ‘so greatly superior to all previous recordings of Pergolesi’s deathbed Stabat mater as to put the others completely out of the running’.

Mastered by Sidney Claire Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios, this 180g LP is part of Hyperion’s 2026 Vinyl Edition. 

 

 

Tracklisting:

Pergolesi:  Stabat Mater, P. 77:

Side A

1.     I. Duet. Stabat Mater dolorosa

2.     II. Soprano. Cuius animam gementem

3.     III. Duet. O quam tristis et afflicta

4.     IV. Alto. Quae moerebat et dolebat

5.     V. Duet. Quis est homo qui non fleret

6.     VI. Soprano. Vidit suum dulcem natum

7.     VII. Alto. Eia mater, fons amoris

8.     VIII. Duet. Fac, ut ardeat cor meum

 

Side B

1.     IX. Duet. Sancta mater

2.     X. Alto. Fac, ut portem Christi mortem

3.     XI. Duet. Inflammatus et accensus

4.     XII. Duet. Quando corpus morietur – Amen

Pergolesi:  Salve Regina in A Minor:

5.     I. Salve Regina

6.     II. Ad te clamamus

7.     III. Eia ergo

8.     IV. O clemens, o pia