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...Rossini: Stabat Mater (Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Ernst Häfliger, Kim Borg; RIAS Symphony conducted by Ferenc Fricsay; Decca, 2 LPs). The composer who was once advised by Beethoven to stick to comic opera, here turns up in a churchly (if not always churchlike) mood. The chorus sings some lofty and properly devotional counter point, but the lovely solo voices have arias that bounce and flow with the joyfulness of the Barber of Seville. Performance: elegant...
...well-loved figure of Christ, securely fixed in the immemorial Stabat Mater tradition of the West, will never take that road; but is likely to assume increasing prominence, while the outrageous child continues to rampage in the East with stolen hammer & sickle...
Palestrina's exceedingly difficult Stabat Mater for 24 mixed voices, probably beyond the capabilities of the available performers, suffered from the apparently unquenchable desire of individual voices to stand out alone. The performance lacked both clarity and freshness; it continually dragged. Similar difficulties were encountered in the four Gabrieli selections, although the fine expression and phrasing in Monteverdi's Ohime Se Tanto Amate made up for lapses in technique. With the superb playing of six members of the New England Conservatory's brass department backing them up, the combined groups offered, in the final Jubilate Deo, some of the unrestrained...
...year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century England's great Henry Purcell; Tchaikovsky's Eugene One gin; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater; a Mozart concerto for three pianos...
...scores. The restless gaiety of the court made variety an essential ingredient in all art, but few succeeded as well as Purcell in pouring into this exacting mold their own genius. Pergolesi, in Italy fifty years later, was still struggling for artistic homogeneity. Incongruously juxtaposed in the "Stabat Mater" are passages of extreme spiritual content and passages which sound more than anything else like comic opera. Decades were to elapse before a style as unified in spirit as that of Purcell's was to evolve in Italy...