Early Music expert Kees Koudstaal serves up the most wonderful and recent classical and Early Music CDs. Two new CDs with Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and a Passion pasticcio with passion music of Graun, J. S. Bach, and Telemann.
1. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)
– ‘Stabat Mater’
Performed by: Samuel Mariño, soprano. Filippo Mineccia, countertenor. Orchestre de l’Opèra Royal conducted by Marie Van Rhijn
(CD: ‘Stabat Mater’, Château de Versailles Spectacles, no. CVS033, 2021)
(music excerpt motet ‘Pange lingua’ from Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704) performed by the Cappella della pietá de’ Turchini conducted by Antonio Florio. CD Symphonia, no. SY93820, 1993)
2. Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759) / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) / Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)
From the Passion pasticcio (ca. 1750) ‘Wer ist der, so von Edom Kömmt’:
– Opening chorus part 1: ‘Wer ist der, so von Edom Kömmt’ (Telemann)
– Aria (soprano) ‘Nimmst du die Kron der Dornen an’ (Graun)
– Opening chorus part 2: ‘Herr Jesu Christ. wahr’ Mensch und Gott’ (Bach)
– Closing chorus: ‘O hilf, Christa, Gottes Sohn’ (Anon./Bach?)
Performed by: Ágnes Kovács, soprano. Lóránt Najbauer, bass. Purcell Choir, and Orfeo Orchestra conducted by György Vashegy
(2cd: ‘Wer ist der, so von Edom Kömmt’, merk Glossa, no. GCD924011, 2021)
