57-minute audio CD of classical music composed by Rossini and performed by the orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, a quartet and a choir of exceptional singers led by Ciro Visco and Antonio Pappano.
EAN: 5099964052922
In his magnificent setting of Stabat Matter, the meditation on the mourning of Mary at the Cross, Rossini respects the sacred gravity of the text while illuminating it with the flair so familiar from his operas, both comic and serious. Under the direction of a starry quartet of bel canto singers and the forces of Santa Cecilia, Rome, Antonio Pappano considers the work a precursor to Verdi's Requiem: "The despair and the drama are already there".
1. Stabat Mater Dolorosa - 9:27
2. Cujus Animam Gementem - 6:16
3. Who Is Gay - 6:20
4. Pro Peccatis Suae Gentis - 4:44
5. Eja, Mater, Fons Amoris - 4:32
6. Sancta Mater, Istud Agas - 7:17
7. College, Ut Portem Christi Mortem - 4:35
8. Inflammatus And Accensus - 4:43
9. When Corpus Morietur - 4:16
10. Amen. In Sempiterna Saecula - 5:43
Total duration: 57:57
Soprano: Anna Netrebko
Mezzo-soprano: Joyce Didonato
Tenor: Lawrence Brownlee
Bass: Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
Choir: Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Choral director: Ciro Visco
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Driver: Antonio Pappano
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Label: EMI Classics
EAN: 5099964052922
