Mariella Devia, Francesca Provvisionato, OFM, Daniele Callegari - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater (2019) SACD ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

This album features one of the most beautiful sacred compositions in the history of music. In this recording 2 great singers are protagonists: Mariella Devia and Francesca Provvisionato, accompanied Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana masterfully directed by Daniele Callegari. This is pure analogue recording. Giulio Cesare Ricci for this recording did not choose a church but the intriguing acoustics of the Lauro Rossi Theater in Macerata. He used only 2 sets of microphones, 2 Neumann M49 & 2 Neumann U47s. The mastering is by Ricci using the Signoricci system, entirely analogue & tube. The master was made by transferring the analogue master recorded with the Nagra 4s 15ips, 1/4 inch 2 tracks to DSD. No editing. All the tracks on this record are heard as they were performed.

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born in 1710 in Jesi and died in Pozzuoli in 1736, struck down by consumption when only twenty-six. Unlucky as far as his health was concerned, he was gifted, by way of compensation, with a spontaneous and powerful musicality which was immediately communicative. His fame as a composer spread far and wide so rapidly that he was imitated by many, and numerous works were wrongly attributed to him. Pergolesi was active in both theatrical genre and in sacred music and his genius is synthesized in two works of opposing character, the opera buffa La serva padrona, and the Stabat Mater. The latter is a sublime and sorrowful lament by the Virgin confronted with her Son’s sacrifice on the Cross. The text that Pergolesi set to music is the ancient Latin sequenza attributed almost certainly to Jacopone da Todi, that remarkable monk and poet who lived between 1230 and 1306. Traditionally understood to have been a well-off and jolly character, Jacopone converted to a most fervent religious mysticism after having survived the collapse of his palace, and after a cilice (a tough garment of penance) was found on the body of his wife who died in the disaster. From that point on, Jacopone expounded his faith and his intense desire to partecipate in the Passion of Christ in verses of rough semplicity fired with fervour. As the Dies Irae, the Stabat Mater is a strophic composition in which the verses are linked by rhyme and assonance. The theme is the grief of the Madonna at the foot of the Cross, and the anguish of the faithful as he shares in the suffering of the crucifixion.

Tracklist:

01. Stabat Mater
02. Cujus Animam
03. O Quam Tristis
04. Quae Moerebat
05. Quis Est Homo
06. Vidit Suum
07. Eia Mater
08. Fac Ut Ardeat
09. Sancta Mater
10. Fac Ut Portem
11. Inflammatus
12. Quando Corpus
13. Amen

Personnel
Mariella Devia - soprano
Francesca Provvisionato - mezzo soprano
Cristina Picciafuoco - organ on "13"
Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
Daniele Callegari - Conductor

Conceived, Produced & Engineered by Giulio Cesare Ricci.
Recorded in March 1998 at Teatro Lauro Rossi, Macerata, Italy.
Audiophile Productions / Fonè # 200 SACD


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Uncompressed SACD ISO size > 624 MB
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