Pergolesi, , Stabat Mater by Sandrine Piau, Christopher Lowrey, Les Talens Lyriques C. Rousset

Release date March 2020 Stream, ,Download, ,Buy Longstanding partners Sandrine Piau and Christophe Rousset have frequently performed the Stabat Mater, an emblematic work of the eighteenthcentury Neapolitan repertory, both together and with other musicians. It was therefore a natural step for them to record this supreme masterpiece of sacred music. They are joined here by a relative newcomer to Les Talens Lyriques who has also become a regular partner with the ensemble, the American countertenor Christopher Lowrey (already heard on an Alpha disc devoted to Monteverdi, Alpha 216). The programme is completed by a Beatus vir by Leonardo Leo (16941744), sung by Sandrine Piau, and a Salve Regina for alto by Nicola Porpora (16861768), two totally unknown works by two composers who were nevertheless very famous at the time Porpora, for example, was Farinellis singing teacher and mentor to the youthful Haydn. Christophe Rousset finds in this musi br, br,