Pergolesi/Vivaldi - Stabat Mater - Alessandrini, Rinaldo

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Pergolesi composed his poignant Stabat Mater - an absolute classic of Baroque music - when he was only twenty-four, and 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 feelings of the Virgin Mary, and her gentle, tender beauty, as she stands in grief beside the Cross.