CARCA'SONNE L'HIVER - STABAT MATER BY THE CONCERT OF THE LOGE

Place Saint-Nazaire

Pergolesi's last completed work in 1736, the Stabat Mater occupies a singular place between sacred music and lyrical theater. Trained at the Naples opera school, the composer alternates solo arias and duos in a sequence of contrasting moods, where the variety of keys and tempos gives the text an intensely dramatic expression. Some numbers borrow directly their language from opera, while others favor a more meditative austerity. This proximity between stage and sacred music, common in eighteenth-century Italy, gives the work a f…