IDAGIO | Pergolesi: Stabat mater, P. 77 - Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonatas 761203510320

Featuring

Marie-Luise Hinrichs
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Domenico Scarlatti

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Critical Reception

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater became world-famous and was admired by the French, with Jean-Jacques Rousseau calling its beginning 'the most perfect and touching duet'.

Composer Biography

Domenico Scarlatti, an Italian composer and harpsichordist, was the son of Alessandro Scarlatti, who was known as a renewer of Baroque music.

Composer Biography

Domenico Scarlatti moved to Portugal in 1719, becoming court music director in Lisbon, and later to the Spanish Court in Madrid in 1733, where he composed exclusively for the harpsichord.

Composer Biography

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi wrote his Stabat Mater in 1734, completing it shortly before his early death at the age of 26.

Composition History

From 1738 onwards, Domenico Scarlatti composed 555 harpsichord sonatas, which were strongly influenced by Spanish music and established his fame.

Performer Biography

Marie-Luise Hinrichs, the pianist on this album, made her public debut at age fourteen as a substitute for Stefan Askenase, performing a Mozart piano piece.

Compositional Technique

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater uses the most modern and emotionally expressive operatic style of his time, written for a modest string section with basso continuo and two solo voices.