Stabat Mater

“The most perfect and touching thing that ever flowed from the pen of any musician”, this is how Jean-Jacques Rousseau praised the opening duet of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. The vivid, highly emotional language of the medieval poem about the sorrow of the Mother of Christ for her crucified son has inspired composers throughout the ages. Pergolesi's version, a stroke of genius by the young composer who died far too young, was one of the most popular of the 18th century and is as moving today as it was then. With a heartfelt simplicity and sensitive songfulness, Pergolesi struck a chord with a time that he himself would not live to see. With Julia Lezhneva (soprano) and Sara Mingardo (alto) and under the direction of Andrea Marcon, a proven specialist in historical performance practice, conducting the Munich Philharmonic, this work unfolds in all its emotional power – a jewel of vocal baroque literature.