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Volume 11 - Pergolese & Vivaldi

Pergolesi composed his poignant Stabat Mater, a classic of Baroque music, when he was only twenty-four. He died two years later. Vivaldi’s setting of the same text is perhaps not as well known, but it is a deeply moving evocation of the Virgin Mary, and her gentle, tender beauty, as she stands in grief beside the Cross.