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Pergolesi / Scarlatti: Stabat Mater · Concerti grossi No. 1 - 6

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from: Universal Classics

Release Date January 29, 2002

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Rossini: Stabat Mater

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from: Universal Classics

Release Date October 05, 2000

CD-Charts Position 3

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Rossini: Arias

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by: Cecilia Bartoli, Giuseppe Patane

Release Date October 05, 2000

CD-Charts Position 4
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Rossini: Stabat Mater

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by: Philharmonia Orchestra Carlo Maria Giulini

Release Date February 19, 2007
This work is a joy from start to end, but do not expect to experience any serious epiphany of a religious nature along the way. Apart from the opening dolorosa, it's pure operatic vocal display and lots of catchy tunes to boot: it's as if Rossini has done his duty and is now off on another bel canto romp up Calvary way. This performance is good - not outstanding - and the Philharmonia is marshalled efficiently by the great Giulini. However, for a more unbridled approach (which is what this essentially sunny setting needs) go for Kertesz and Pavarotti on Decca. It's all a hoot anyway - but wonderfully melodic and hummable.

CD-Charts Position 5
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Rossini: Stabat Mater

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from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date August 06, 1999
This work is a joy from start to end, but do not expect to experience any serious epiphany of a religious nature along the way. Apart from the opening dolorosa, it's pure operatic vocal display and lots of catchy tunes to boot: it's as if Rossini has done his duty and is now off on another bel canto romp up Calvary way. This performance is good - not outstanding - and the Philharmonia is marshalled efficiently by the great Giulini. However, for a more unbridled approach (which is what this essentially sunny setting needs) go for Kertesz and Pavarotti on Decca. It's all a hoot anyway - but wonderfully melodic and hummable.

CD-Charts Position 6
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Rossini: Stabat Mater

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from: Universal Classics

Release Date March 17, 2003
This work is a joy from start to end, but do not expect to experience any serious epiphany of a religious nature along the way. Apart from the opening dolorosa, it's pure operatic vocal display and lots of catchy tunes to boot: it's as if Rossini has done his duty and is now off on another bel canto romp up Calvary way. This performance is good - not outstanding - and the Philharmonia is marshalled efficiently by the great Giulini. However, for a more unbridled approach (which is what this essentially sunny setting needs) go for Kertesz and Pavarotti on Decca. It's all a hoot anyway - but wonderfully melodic and hummable.

CD-Charts Position 7
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Rossini: Stabat Mater

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from: Decca

Release Date March 16, 1999
This work is a joy from start to end, but do not expect to experience any serious epiphany of a religious nature along the way. Apart from the opening dolorosa, it's pure operatic vocal display and lots of catchy tunes to boot: it's as if Rossini has done his duty and is now off on another bel canto romp up Calvary way. This performance is good - not outstanding - and the Philharmonia is marshalled efficiently by the great Giulini. However, for a more unbridled approach (which is what this essentially sunny setting needs) go for Kertesz and Pavarotti on Decca. It's all a hoot anyway - but wonderfully melodic and hummable.

CD-Charts Position 8
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Rossini: Petite messe solennelle/Stabat Mater

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from: Double Decca

Release Date August 12, 1997
I bought this version as we are to perform it soon, accompanied by piano and harmonium only - so I thought this would be helpful. However, I find the chorus seems to be made up of a whole bunch of soloists - all competing to have the most vibrato in their voices! Not the best way to listen to choral music and certainly not easy to pick out individual lines. Some of it seems to be much slower than the tempi indicated in the score too. I've just ordered a different version (Decca), having heard it elsewhere and enjoyed it so much more.

CD-Charts Position 9
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Dvorák: Stabat Mater/Legends

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from: Deutsche Grammophon

Release Date September 16, 1996
Dvorak's Legends are a delightful set of miniatures, very typical of this golden composer. Kubelik, one of the great conductors of his music, teams up with the ECO for an enchanting addendum to what is, truth be told, an hour and a half of tedium with the BRSO et al. Stabat Mater was a huge success in its day, but even with a spritely conductor it makes Brahms' Deutsche Requiem seem operatic. No matter how much you love Dvorak, this religious music will seem an eternity, and not in a good way. So, I'd say this CD twofer is worth getting for the Legends and maybe if you take the Stabat Mater one movement at a time, it won't feel like a dead weight. Check out Szymanowski to hear a more valuable setting of this devotional hymn.

CD-Charts Position 10
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Dvorak: Stabat Mater

Search: Fac- ut portem Christi mortem
from: Universal Classics

Release Date June 18, 2001
Dvorak's Legends are a delightful set of miniatures, very typical of this golden composer. Kubelik, one of the great conductors of his music, teams up with the ECO for an enchanting addendum to what is, truth be told, an hour and a half of tedium with the BRSO et al. Stabat Mater was a huge success in its day, but even with a spritely conductor it makes Brahms' Deutsche Requiem seem operatic. No matter how much you love Dvorak, this religious music will seem an eternity, and not in a good way. So, I'd say this CD twofer is worth getting for the Legends and maybe if you take the Stabat Mater one movement at a time, it won't feel like a dead weight. Check out Szymanowski to hear a more valuable setting of this devotional hymn.