Steffani: Stabat Mater I Barocchisti & Diego Fasolis; Cecilia Bartoli

• Agostino Steffani (1654-1728): Stabat Mater (World Premiere Recording)
• 1 Stabat Mater Dolorosa 02:10
• 2 Cuius animam gementem…. O quam tristis 02:02
• 3 Quis est homo qui non fleret…. Quis non posset 02:49
• 4 Pro peccatis suae gentis 01:22
• 5 Vidit suum dulcem Natum 01:09
• 6 Eja Mater, fons amoris… Fac, ut ardeat … Sancta Mater… Tui nati vulnerati 04:16
• 7 Fac me vere tecum flere…. Juxta Crucem 02:28
• 8 Virgo virginum praeclara 01:31
• 9 Fac ut portem Christi mortem 01:04
• 10 Fac me plagis vulnerary 01:09
• 11 Inflammatus e accensus…. Fac me cruce custodiri 01:29
• 12 Quando corpus morietur… Fac ut animae donetur 03:58
• 13 Beatus Vir 05:17
• 14 Non Plus Me Ligate 06:24
• 15 Triduanas A Domino 02:52
• 16 Laudate Pueri 09:35
• 17 Sperate in Deo 12:57
• 18 Qui Diligit Mariam 10:00
• Total Runtime 01:12:32

Info for Steffani: Stabat Mater

Cecilia Bartoli’s exploration of the music of Steffani continues on from her best-selling recording 'Mission' with an album of the celebrated Stabat Mater alongside Steffani’s greatest sacred works for chorus, orchestra and soloists, constituting the most comprehensive collection of Steffani’s sacred choral music. Bartoli leads an array of internationally celebrated singers including countertenor Franco Fagioli, the bass Salvo Vitale and the two young German tenors Daniel Behle and Julian Prégardien.

Diego Fasolis conducts the authentic instrument forces of I Barocchisti and the chorus of RSI Lugano

Steffani’s Stabat Mater is his masterpiece, completed shortly before he died in 1728. It has been described as the most powerful expression of his religious fervour and, at almost half an hour, the largest-scale, most complex and heartfelt of his compositions outside his operas.

The album is completed by six world premiere recordings of the best of Steffani’s remaining sacred music, including Sperate in Deo and Laudate Pueri. These are scored for orchestra, chorus and soloists featuring two young baroque-specialist sopranos Nuria Rial and Yetzabel Arias Fernandez alongside Behle, Pregardien and Vitale.

Also amongst these world premieres is Non plus me Ligate, a seven-minute solo motet for Cecilia Bartoli.

“La Bartoli sings as enthrallingly as ever, and with this new album reasserts her place as No.1 in the international diva firmament.” (Financial Times Germany on Mission)

Cecilia Bartoli, soprano
Nuria Rial, soprano
Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, soprano
Elena Carzaniga, soprano
Franco Fagioli, countertenor
Daniel Behle, tenor
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Salvo Vitale, bass

Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis, conductor

Recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo della Radiotelevisione svizzera, January, February & April 2013
Executive Producer: Dominic Fyfe
Recording Producer & Engineer: Ulrich Ruscher
Editing: Ulrich Ruscher

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