Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Pergolesi Year 2010 celebrates the birth 300 years ago of a first rank composer whose death at 26 robbed music of a singular voice.

Autumn’s 2009 release of this first volume of a three album all-Pergolesi project, featuring Orchestra Mozart conducted by Claudio Abbado, whets the appetite for succeeding volumes while creating buzz for the commemoration year itself.

25 years after recording the Stabat Mater, Pergolesi’s most popular piece, Maestro Abbado unveils his new vision of this sublime score with a cast of splendid singers.

Playing a priceless Guarneri Giuliano Carmignola, winner of Germany’s Echo award and the French Diapason d’or, records Pergolesi’s Violin Concerto for the first time.